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[GoodLeave]

Right. Feel free to shoot me down, but I'm sticking my head above the parapet.

1. Warner
2. Cook (c)
3. Smith
4. Root
5. Kohli
6. AB De Villiers (wk)
7. Woakes
8. Yasir
9. Starc
10. Broad
11. Rabada

English conditions.

[Big Mac]

Misbah's all time favorite outcome of a match. ^^^


He is always more scared of defeat than having the belly fire to win - so draw is what he absolutely loves to have regardless of how close to victory Pak team is.

What a load of crap.

Under Misbah Pakistan have scored 382 in the 4th innings to win in Sri Lanka and chased 302 in 50-odd overs in the 4th innings but nah, he doesn't have a desire to win.

[edge]

Cook
Warner
Williamson
Root
De Villiers
Stokes
Watling
Woakes
Yasir
Rabada
Starc (not entirely happy with this but lefty and can't think of a better option right now)

Kohli has no place in a world test xi and De Villiers isn't a keeper. QDK or Sarfraz both in with a shout of keeper with Watling.

[Felix Tito]

Cook
Warner
Williamson
Root
De Villiers
Stokes
Watling
Woakes
Yasir
Rabada
Starc (not entirely happy with this but lefty and can't think of a better option right now)

Kohli has no place in a world test xi and De Villiers isn't a keeper. QDK or Sarfraz both in with a shout of keeper with Watling.

Kohli and Williamson would probably be the first two batsmen selected. They score most of their hundreds in foreign conditions. Iirc both have scored 9 hundreds away from home.

[rickjames]

Kinda daft shot from Root but sweeping Yasir at that point was mildly successful. Hope the middle order can rack up some quick runs here.

Fascinating match regardless, can't beat a game that goes 5 days

[Kulli]

Hard to decide if it's worth sticking with Vince after that, probably deserves the final test I guess, keen to see Duckett involved soon though, been in unbelievable form.

[Felix Tito]

James Vince once again caught in the cordon. This fella isn't up to Test cricket.

[brokenbat]

James Vince once again caught in the cordon. This fella isn't up to Test cricket.

he is the Hafeez of english cricket - pretty shots...and then gets out fending outside off. Those shots are indeed quite pretty though...

[rickjames]

Some of the umpiring on these wides has been extremely generous

[GoodLeave]

I thought there was a law on negative bowling to stop teams seemingly playing for draws?

[Felix Tito]

I thought there was a law on negative bowling to stop teams seemingly playing for draws?

Thought that was based on leg side bowling. Nothing to stop a team bowling 3ft outside off peg with a heavy off side field.

[Felix Tito]

Yasir Shah is quickly going to become the next Ajantha Mendis. There's no mystery to his bowling. He must've cashed in to beginners luck as he's looking increasingly more and more average as this series reaches its climate.

[rickjames]

Good batting from YJB and Moeen today. Also shuts up the idea of a 4 day test match...

[Alvaro]

Yasir Shah is quickly going to become the next Ajantha Mendis. There's no mystery to his bowling. He must've cashed in to beginners luck as he's looking increasingly more and more average as this series reaches its climate.

Misbah is bowling him into the ground...

Hardly spin friendly wickets either.

[Wills]

Really disappointed we didn't get a couple of overs in against them this evening. They've struggled to go at 3s all tour, would have taken Pakistan a Herculean effort. So much for an attacking approach to cricket when we've basically accepted the draw.