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Oh dear ,we are 61-6 at lunch.Its all down to a good old fashioned England batting collapse.There is no Fred,he was watching Darren Gough dancing at the weekend :) .

164-8 at tea,Tres is still in.

Bit of an Ashes hangover.....

We're missing Freddie and Harmison - so some excuse ready to fall back on.

Good lower order batting though (Giles 30, Udal 14, Prior 16*)

Impossible to tell what the pitch is like ... might just be a dirt track .. the true test of how well we did is when we have a bowl .. plus Multan is different to Rawalpindi anyway .. so its just a training session in many ways! :king:

You are right[hopefully] :) ,but its only a warm up game so i'm not too concerned yet.And at least the players are getting used to Pakistan conditions.I wonder who the Patron is?He sounds a trifle sinister :) .

The real cricket excitement today is India v Sri Lanka .. where Dhoni the Indian wickie has scored 130 off 107 balls so far ..13 4s and 7 6s!!!

I spent a lot of yesterday watching SA v NZ .. good match .. cricket not involving England I find pleasant to watch  :mrgreen:

True,its certaintly a lot less stressful :)

Tres has a century and Prior has made 50 :) .

good recovery .. Prior is putting Jones under pressure!

Any Ideas how this use of 14 players in the match works? I heard a bit about it and other than the fact that it's a good idea to give everyone a chance to acclimatise I was bewildered by the logisitics.

and he promptly gets out for 50!

Dhoni made 183 off 145 balls .. 15 4s and 10 6s .. amazing! Highest ever score by a wicketkeeper in a one day match .. beating Gilchrist's 173!

India beat Sri Lanka and went 3-0 up in the 7 match series! :-))(

No chance :-))( ,lord knows why but jones's place seems to be secure in spite of his missed stumpings,dropped catches and his ability to get out.Plus it is only a warm up,although  i wonder if jones is going to keep wicket ,maybe he's just playing as a batsman :wink: .

 :shock: Why is it a 7 match series?I know the Indians are good at one dayers but thats a bit much.
256-9 at close of play,Tres still in on 124. :)

We must have been crap.....Yaser Arafat, got 4 wickets and he's been dead for about  a year.

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I noticed that as well,it stopped me in my tracks for a while.I would imagine the cloth he wore on his head would come in quite handy though :)

whats up with the avater larwood...don't want some pakistan guy!

 :)
I think Inzamam is fantastic,as i've said before i think he's a bit of a hero to all us big-boned individuals  :wink:  .
If he starts playing well i will change him though :) .

:soapy tit wank: good to hear. He is a good player...bu yeh, i need to geta picture of the somerset legend that is trescothick!  :beers:

No avatars of Bristol City supporters on here please.  :roll:

thats mushtaq ahmed in your avatar

so a good recovery then? i wouldn't read too much into the game anyway its the first in 2 months in different surroundings and the team have yet to really finish the ashes party.

thats true....but i tend to forget about that!

The Patron's XI are currently 116-7

M J Hoggard 8.0 2 24 0
J M Anderson 7.0 2 32 3
L E Plunkett 7.0 1 41 2
P D Collingwood 6.0 2 10 1
M P Vaughan 1.0 0 1 0
S D Udal 2.0 0 8 1

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I think you'll find that it is Inzy :) It must be, i googled his name and thats one of the pictures that came up. :)

Good to see Jimmy in the wickets :)

And glad to see new boy Plunkett take a couple.  :)

no having watched him and chatted to him frequently at sussex i can assure you its mushtaq ahmed

Mex just been on google[which is what i'm using :) ]and if you type in Inzamam-ul-haq in images my picture [on my computer anyway]is right at the top ,there is a similarity between the two big men ,but i'm still convinced my picture is Inzy,google wouldn't get it wrong would it?:) Shall we just agree that you think its Mushtaq and i think its Inzy? :)  8) There are both great players and both are large chaps so in my eyes they are role-models :) .

I'm still thinking it's Inzy

i bet you a million pounds its mushy, anyway jones is keeper so why play matt prior at number 10???? 50 on his touring debut and his stand with trescothick saved the day.

I guess they're tryign to get everyone involved, give prior a look at the conditions and let jones practice trying to catch the ball, number 10 seems a bit daft, but the whole match is quite contrived anyway being 14 man squads.

Yes and doesn't he need the practice :-))( .
Udal has got a couple,but K.O.S has got a tummy upset so i don't know if he's out playing at the moment,so the spin twins may not be bowling together ...yet.

Jonesy could have a mare against the veteran spin attack, if it really turns he's gonna need to improve rapidly, cos we can't afford missed stumpings, and lots of byes.

bowled themout for 211 and prior is opening go matty go matty go matty.

strauss out already :(

39-6   At the close of play :shock:
And we can't even blame the pitch for spinning.

Bloody Hell, I saw a bit of it yesterday is the pitch dodgy in any way, or are the batsman all a bit rubbish.  it's swinging around a bit from what I saw, but 39-6?...

They said its a seaming pitch {which would explain why Jimmy is doing alright :wink:}And there has been some messing around of the order,but aside from that i just don't think the batsmen are playing well,Tres has still to come in so he may save a draw for us.

England are 112 all out,Tres topped scored again, with 38,and Colly made 34.
No wonder its 14 a side,we need all the players we can get.

Not the best of starts but it is only a warm up ... mind you I wouldnt be playing Bell .. he really isnt up to it is he?

True,but it isn't the most inspiring of performances.Warm up games are usually draws or wins not  losses :( .It suggests arrogance to me,that the top order have assumed its going to be easy,when no game is.

The patron's 11 are 75-5,maybe we are going to do it.

75 for 7 now .. two more for Gilo!

88-8 at tea.
K.o.S has 4-38 and Plunkett has 4-13 :)

:)  :shock:
We have won by 52 runs,bowled them out for 105.Must have been something wrong with the pitch.
Hopefully its the boot up the arse some of the batsmen need.Tres said that it was a case of working very hard to get runs,the batsmen need to realise that the conditions are very different from home and play accordingly.Good work from the bowlers though,Plunkett must be in with a shout of starting now.

Ridiculous pitch ... Multan where the first test is wont be like that.

Udal did well .. 2 wickets in 3 overs!

King of Spain!  :beers: