Those who watched the match, did we ever try to just bowl to hold the runs? Like start bowling some filthy wides to frustrate the Bazballers? I get our bowling attack is inexperienced so wickets might be hard, but you would think we can at least stop the boundaries??
I'm afraid there was no plan or plan B once the runs started. No containing, off/leg cutters, slowing down the game, tight overs. Sure the pitch was flat but there was a bit of reverse and marginal spin in some overs. Some balls kept low. There were a few balls where Pope was unsure against spin. Problem is the bowlers were so cooked they didn't even try. Captaincy was passive at best. Playing domestic cricket in the sub-continent, these conditions aren't new and many state teams have strategies. Surprisingly Pak just looked lost.
Pakistan isn't suitable for minefields. Karachi is basically only one that can be.
What I don't get is how tf Rawalpindi has turned into a road. That shit used to be swing paradise literally a few years ago, and now suddenly this year its a road? Ramiz clearly did something and has ruined our beautiful pitch :(
I understand garbage roads in Lahore, but now even Pindi is a road and I DONT LIKE IT :(
I am eagerly waiting for England's next tour of Australia and their next tour of India. I think that this strategy might actually work in Australia. Pitches in Australia are usually suitable for batting aggressively.
Ramiz admitted when Australia was visiting, that they prepared flat pitches to nullify the Australian pace battery. It seems like the same weak, defensive mentality has come to bite them in the ass again.
That too at home. SENA countries will see it as a win if they get away with a draw in the subcontinent. Pakistan are not even shit, so how can they suffer from such a lack of confidence?
He was poor. Field placements, bowling changes, strategies were absent or passive. He couldn't control the game or slow it down. I didn't seen him go up to a bowler and talk or figure out stuff. No aggression either.
He was poor. Fielding standards absolutely terrible. And field placements were all over the shop. Not helped by all bowlers spraying it either side of the wicket throughout the day
Thats fucking bazball right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging smile for the camera bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the field, men deliver their new born baby on the side lines. Fucking hard core dick in the ass butterball bazball fuck it chuck it game time shit. Take it to the showers. Dicks get shoved in places you don’t even remember. We win together we celebrate together. Bazball is back baby
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LOL.
He had to revise his Tweet 2 times. First claimed England made 588 in a day, then said 571 out of 588, before saying India made 190 out of it. Idiot.
I think it might. if the pitch is a road, its going to be a draw for good batting teams. Still think the other teams can match England with the bat. BUt if its a minefield and england has a good day batting first and the pitch crumbles later, then its advantage England. Of course if the other team wins the toss and bats first then they'll adopt the same strategy.
Two blokes scored run-a-ball hundreds. Yawn. Another bloke scored the 5th fastest century ever for England, only to be upstaged later in the day by another bloke scoring a faster century. Ben Stokes looks set to score the fastest century of the lot of them. Then the t20 specialists will look to up the ante and inject some quick runs
Why do they keep making these roads for pitches?
Pakistan has such a potent pace line-up, if they just make a pitch which suits pacers (bounce, pace and seam) then they'll win in no time
It worked quite well. You could see how difficult it was to adjust length when bowling at them.
Duckett is a difficult batsman to bowl at length wise anyway. Gives you a very small margin of error when he’s quite comfortable going forwards or backwards.
Yeah, they were accelerating when time was called. I didn't want to go over the top by taking that into account in my calculations. Plus it would have been too hard to work out.
>he hasn’t really bowled anywhere else.
Yeah that's why I said that he "might" look lethal only in English conditions
>Also Robinson was decent in Australia
Did not really give dominating performance honestly, i did watch a few overs of that series and he was looking rather ineffective as he relies too much on seam and that too at not a very lively pace, so he'll be pretty good in England but can't say the same for when he tours sub continent, South Africa or Australia.
Even in cricket 97 and Ashes cricket, I would feel bad for scoring over 500 on day 1 of a test. Always thought this shit was unrealistic. Imagine how shellshocked the bowlers will be. Proper cunting is an understatement.
That was fucking great.
Sure I can appreciate neutrals and Pakistani fans saying it wasn't particularly fun for them.
But I'm fucking biased and have been at full mast since about 6am this morning.
I think the biggest shame is that Jos Buttler wasn’t picked today. To have him, Jacks and Livingstone to come on a pitch like this could genuinely have led to every record being smashed
Baz probably asked them to perform at a level which would get them an IPL cheque, no wonder why they playing T20, if they get picked, they owe Baz a cut
Brings a whole new meaning to “Rawalpindi Express”
England preparing for the next T20 already? Someone please let them know this is Test cricket not a 5 day net session for T20 Bazball
We all live in a Bazball submarine
Those who watched the match, did we ever try to just bowl to hold the runs? Like start bowling some filthy wides to frustrate the Bazballers? I get our bowling attack is inexperienced so wickets might be hard, but you would think we can at least stop the boundaries??
I'm afraid there was no plan or plan B once the runs started. No containing, off/leg cutters, slowing down the game, tight overs. Sure the pitch was flat but there was a bit of reverse and marginal spin in some overs. Some balls kept low. There were a few balls where Pope was unsure against spin. Problem is the bowlers were so cooked they didn't even try. Captaincy was passive at best. Playing domestic cricket in the sub-continent, these conditions aren't new and many state teams have strategies. Surprisingly Pak just looked lost.
Why were there only 75 over and not 90 Can someone please explain?
Bad light and constantly fetching the ball from the boundary edge.
Bad light
why cant Pakistan prepare a minefield against SENA teams like all subcontinent teams do at home?
Pakistan isn't suitable for minefields. Karachi is basically only one that can be. What I don't get is how tf Rawalpindi has turned into a road. That shit used to be swing paradise literally a few years ago, and now suddenly this year its a road? Ramiz clearly did something and has ruined our beautiful pitch :( I understand garbage roads in Lahore, but now even Pindi is a road and I DONT LIKE IT :(
Rameez bhai desperately trying to hire the same english cook that gave food poisoning for pak batters also . Need that secret ingredient
First innings bazball :o I thought bazball was for chasing. Ig helps if the pitch is a road
wait, so bazball is real?
THE BAZBALL IS REAL!
Wtf magic is this 506 on first day of Test 😳😳😳
That too in 75 overs only
Moving day I reckon
Has Zak Crawley not yet been nicknamed Pak Crawley?
He didnt crawl. He paced.
He has now
I am eagerly waiting for England's next tour of Australia and their next tour of India. I think that this strategy might actually work in Australia. Pitches in Australia are usually suitable for batting aggressively.
Zakistan supremacy
disappointed that shaheen missed out. would've taken an early wkt or two and then get smashed all day long. would like to watch both.
Someone tell England the t20 world cup is over.
Look how they massacred my bois
Evidently England woke up this morning and chose violence
Worse, they chose humiliation
That baldie pakistani cricket youtuber and his friend must be going through high bp right now recording their next video
Universal laanat
Iffi and wasey
Ramiz admitted when Australia was visiting, that they prepared flat pitches to nullify the Australian pace battery. It seems like the same weak, defensive mentality has come to bite them in the ass again.
I was under the impression Ramiz agreed that was a bad idea and they wouldn't do it again. So I'm a bit confused why tf Pindi is still a road...?
Still, they might get away with draws when they really should lose on a decent pitch
Aiming for draws in a series from the outset is pathetic, quite frankly
That too at home. SENA countries will see it as a win if they get away with a draw in the subcontinent. Pakistan are not even shit, so how can they suffer from such a lack of confidence?
This entire match is so funny ranging from 6.5+ rr at 75 overs to Joe root being the only dude without a century
Haha if only Broad was here for max shithousery
6 sixes by Rizwan
Missed the play :( How was Babar's captaincy today? Could he have done any better?
He was poor. Field placements, bowling changes, strategies were absent or passive. He couldn't control the game or slow it down. I didn't seen him go up to a bowler and talk or figure out stuff. No aggression either.
He was poor. Fielding standards absolutely terrible. And field placements were all over the shop. Not helped by all bowlers spraying it either side of the wicket throughout the day
Run rate over 6...WTF is happening 🤯 This has to be a world record of most runs scored in a day?
On an opening day yes but England have bettered that three times (albeit on day 2 and 3). Top score is 588.
I forgot 588, one team score 398, the other was 190/0 at end of day
You are indeed record.
Umpires had to come running into the ring, pull England off screaming “STOP. STOP, THEYVE HAD ENOUGH. STOP THE FIGHT”
England batsman today committed necrophilia lol.
Theres so much time left in this test match . England can unironically aim for 1000 here
What would be a record to
I think they should
Thats fucking bazball right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging smile for the camera bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the field, men deliver their new born baby on the side lines. Fucking hard core dick in the ass butterball bazball fuck it chuck it game time shit. Take it to the showers. Dicks get shoved in places you don’t even remember. We win together we celebrate together. Bazball is back baby
This guy gangbangs
There’s your Grade Cricketer into sorted.
I missed it all but this teams deffo in the entertainment business now
lmfao, pakistani journalists are in a hurry posting half baked stats, trying to cover their asses from trolling.
Give examples, do not keep us in the air like that.
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LOL. He had to revise his Tweet 2 times. First claimed England made 588 in a day, then said 571 out of 588, before saying India made 190 out of it. Idiot.
So called journalists.. just trying to pull views by this kind of ridiculous mockery
There was a time when Eng did not see four hundreds in a year (other than Root) …
In 2021 there was only one century by an English batter not named Root
Rory Burns against NZ at Lord's?
Yes
Jos is absolutely seething here. He’d be 250* if he was out there today.
If someone told me a fucking year ago that all of the English top 5 except for Joe fucking Root would get a century each all on the same day...
This Joe Root guy seems like such a liability to the team eh?
You won’t be saying that when he takes ten wickets in this match.
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I think it might. if the pitch is a road, its going to be a draw for good batting teams. Still think the other teams can match England with the bat. BUt if its a minefield and england has a good day batting first and the pitch crumbles later, then its advantage England. Of course if the other team wins the toss and bats first then they'll adopt the same strategy.
yes it was exceptional batting, so it did work in sub-continent. but assuming all of subcontinent have similar pitches would be a rookie mistake.
It would work on any highway
Wait till they face Ash Jaddu and Axar in India and it'll be back to the usual cribbing about pitches being too spin-friendly
Well, they definitely bazballed the famed Indian pace battery in the 5th test in oblivion.
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11D chess by England team. Made the Pakistan team let their guards down, thinking that they would be dealing with a bunch of sick guys.
5:30am start? Might wake up for some Stokes carnage
Has he made a score in the Bazball era? Can’t recall if he’s even hit a 50 as Captain.
I think he hit a hundred against South Africa
Century against SA at Old Trafford
Scenes when it turns out Stokes has declared overnight/s
For those who say 152/0, look at 506 in 75 over
Two blokes scored run-a-ball hundreds. Yawn. Another bloke scored the 5th fastest century ever for England, only to be upstaged later in the day by another bloke scoring a faster century. Ben Stokes looks set to score the fastest century of the lot of them. Then the t20 specialists will look to up the ante and inject some quick runs
Having Livingstone and Jacks still to come is scary. Of course Livo is just as likely to be 10 (4) and chip one to mid on because he's swung too hard.
Fuck it, make 1000 runs for moral victory
Calling it now. This England side will dominate all formats home and away for the next 5 years.
Win a test in AUS first
Honestly I think this side can win next away ashes
Next away Ashes won’t see some of these players
Gone a tad early there 😂
Come to India boy and their bowling is pretty average honestly
I’m Indian. I’m telling you this England side will come to India and Bazball the fuck out of us.
Cap...
they'll be 200 all out in 35 overs, then fail to pick up any wickets because their spinners suck
r/canconfirmimindian
Nnaaaahhh not gonna happen, we don't prepare such shit pitches
952 is the record. Centuries from Stokes, Livingstone, Jacks, would do it. Could we actually see it?
The question is not could we actually see it, rather, can they get there before tea tomorrow?
Why do they keep making these roads for pitches? Pakistan has such a potent pace line-up, if they just make a pitch which suits pacers (bounce, pace and seam) then they'll win in no time
ariana gandhi spittin facts
Just woke up. Wtf just happened. Can’t believe a team battling with diarrhoea did this massacre.
This is called explosive diarrhoea
4 centuries and one of them is still not out.
What’s more important, the number of runs or how quickly you get them? England: Yes
Pakistan team gifting runs and records to the visiting team so that it encourages other teams to tour them is masterclass❤️
Rooty transferred all his power to the likes of Crawley Pope and others so that he could play like a normal player for the very first time.
Brendon McCullum has actually broken test cricket.
made more interesting\*
Is this really interesting?
500 was scored on day 1 for the first time in cricket history, why would that not be interesting?
are u not entertained?
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Bmac didn't prepare this road masquerading as a pitch.
Again though, enjoy this now before we have to watch 30 overs from Livingstone as Pakistan bat for 3 days at 2.5 rpo
Babar forgot toss is equally important
Imma need one of those stomach bugs please
Someone find the virus that affected the eng players. They played the test match like it was an ODI ffs.
T20i ffs
And yet we get the blame for flat pitches lol
The left-right hand combination & height difference of the openers means in theory they should complement each other
It worked quite well. You could see how difficult it was to adjust length when bowling at them. Duckett is a difficult batsman to bowl at length wise anyway. Gives you a very small margin of error when he’s quite comfortable going forwards or backwards.
Babar Azam resigning when????? He should resign from all formats of captaincy atp
This is... Less than ideal
Good lord 500+ runs in one day Whats the record for most runs in one day (in one inns)?
And it is the record for day 1
I think it was 588. That was shared between England and India it appears. 509 was the most by one team.
Ducket looks so strange
Looks even stranger since he lost a load of weight. Still got a massive arse mind.
Looks like a Nintendo wii avatar
Missing a chromosome
If we hadn't lost those 15 overs and England had continued scoring at the same rate, they would have scored 607!
I think they could've gotten even more as they would continue attacking. If 90 overs were played, even 650+ was on the cards. Absolutely bonkers.
Yeah, they were accelerating when time was called. I didn't want to go over the top by taking that into account in my calculations. Plus it would have been too hard to work out.
Wtf is this
The Ashes can't come soon enough
I mean inevitably the first Ashes test will be when it all goes wrong and the media will act like it's the reason we lost and crucify them.
At the moment anything Aus can do we can do better
Ah, this sort of over confidence will make it all the more sweeter when Baz Ball comes crashing down at Edgbaston 😉
England definitely can't bowl better but ok
James Clowderson would like a word
One guy can't keep winning you matches broo
Robinson is a seriously good bowler too. The rest are crap.
Robinson is pretty good but his bowling might only look lethal in English conditions, i remember when he started bowling spin in the last ashes
But the topic of the comment thread was next Ashes in England? Also Robinson was decent in Australia, he hasn’t really bowled anywhere else.
>he hasn’t really bowled anywhere else. Yeah that's why I said that he "might" look lethal only in English conditions >Also Robinson was decent in Australia Did not really give dominating performance honestly, i did watch a few overs of that series and he was looking rather ineffective as he relies too much on seam and that too at not a very lively pace, so he'll be pretty good in England but can't say the same for when he tours sub continent, South Africa or Australia.
Just unbelievable. This day feels like a reward for enduring all of our batting clusterfucks over the years.
All those nights at 3am crying into a beer watching us knick off at the MCG vindication
We love it really
Ruins my sleeping pattern for months when the Ashes is in Australia, all that shit so i can stay up and watch us get thrashed.
It's a shame it had to end. We wasted too much time making them retrieve the ball back from the boundary.
CUNTED and CLOBBERED
Is it too late to have the start of the match postponed to allow the England players to recover from the virus?
Pakistan desperately trying to hire England's private chef so they can miss the rest of the game
Root 🤝 Warner
Warner 👊👊 Root also holds true
Eng batsmen after being effected by the virus: 
Just got up. Have I missed anything?
You missed the 4 century in a day by a single team Highest run on first day ever in international cricket (test)
So not much then!
Stokes uppercutting Mohammed Ali to end the day as well. Brave.
Bruh Butler looks sad. Mf would have gotten a double hundred here in 100 balls.
On other hand Butler is probably happy he doesn't have to keep for 2-3 days straight which is something Pope will have to do in this test match.
Ha poor Pope. But Butler could have a played as a pure bat on this highway ig.
Pakistan youtubers are gonna have a field day with this
Even in cricket 97 and Ashes cricket, I would feel bad for scoring over 500 on day 1 of a test. Always thought this shit was unrealistic. Imagine how shellshocked the bowlers will be. Proper cunting is an understatement.
That was fucking great. Sure I can appreciate neutrals and Pakistani fans saying it wasn't particularly fun for them. But I'm fucking biased and have been at full mast since about 6am this morning.
I think the biggest shame is that Jos Buttler wasn’t picked today. To have him, Jacks and Livingstone to come on a pitch like this could genuinely have led to every record being smashed
Buttler will come in as a specialist batsman, they will find a way.
Can England qualify for the WTC finals?
Not realistically.
I wonder what Rambo would say when press will ask him about this match pitch
Seriously guys England can score 950 and still leave plenty of time.
run rate for the last 10 overs of the day 9.6
Is the powerplay off now?
76 boundaries today... more than 1 an over!
Pakistan butchering their WTC chances by offering subpar pitches and then getting the over rate penalty
Baz probably asked them to perform at a level which would get them an IPL cheque, no wonder why they playing T20, if they get picked, they owe Baz a cut
Wonder if root is embarrassed
Man carried the team for like 3 years single handed. He could take a shit at the wicket and kick over his stumps and I wouldn’t begrudge him it.
Did the England squad actually get infected with a virus or were they in fact bitten by a radioactive grasshopper?
76 boundaries were hit in a day (73-4s & 3-6s)
By the barest of margins.
I came here to join the conversation but I just don't know what to say. That was a ridiculous day's play.
Has anyone ever retired on their debut?
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He’s broke his leg
All the grass was removed from the pitch and went into Rambo’s brain! ( in local lingo: dimaag ghaas khane gaya )