Pakistan in England

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Pakistan will first play Australia in two Twenty20 internationals and two Tests, followed by four Tests, two Twenty20s and five ODIs against England. The squad for the ODIs has not been named as yet.

Twenty20 squad: Salman Butt, Shahzaib Hasan, Umar Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Umar Amin, Kamran Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Aamer, Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar, Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, Wahab Riaz, Fawad Alam.


Test squad: Salman Butt, Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed, Azhar Ali, Umar Akmal, Umar Amin, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Zulqarnain Haider, Kamran Akmal, Umar Gul, Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Asif, Wahab Riaz, Tanvir Ahmed, Danish Kaneria, Saeed Ajmal.

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Salman Butt has been named Captain for the rest of the tour

[Media Park]

Mohammed Yousuf is available...

[brod]

Mohammed Yousuf is available...

and has stated that he will play under any captain

[Media Park]

Mohammed Yousuf is available...

and has stated that he will play under any captain

We'll see how long that lasts...

[The Dark Knight]

Mohammed Yousuf is available...

and has stated that he will play under any captain

We'll see how long that lasts...

He'll probably have a winge and then quit again.

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Eoin Morgan and Ajmal Shahzad have retained their places in England's Test squad for the first match of the four-Test series at Trent Bridge next week, but there is no place for Ravi Bopara, who has scored back-to-back hundreds for Essex in the County Championship, or Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan.

England squad Andrew Strauss (capt), James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Steven Finn, Eoin Morgan, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior (wk), Ajmal Shahzad, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott

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Tim Bresnan has been called up to the England squad after an ankle injury ruled Ajmal Shahzad out of the first Test against Pakistan at Trent Bridge. It had been a foot injury to Bresnan that helped Shahzad make his Test debut against Bangladesh last month, during which he impressed with his pace and reverse-swing.

Shahzad's ankle problem has sidelined him for a week and he could be back as soon as the second Test at Edgbaston. He had previously suffered a hamstring strain during the third ODI against Bangladesh

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England v Pakistan
1st Test
Trent Bridge

Lunch - Day 1

England 2/103
AJ Strauss 45
IJL Trott 35* (only 53 balls)
Mohammad Aamer 2/18

England won the toss and batted

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England lose two quick wickets after lunch

KP for 9
Trott for 38

Eng 4/119
Aamer has 3 wickets

[jackpot jim]

4 overs into day 2
Eng 4/337 (94 overs)

Surely Pakistan Keeper Kamran Akmal has to go !
Pakisatn have a good bowling attack but receive very little support from their keeper.
Yesterday Akmal dropped an absolute sitter off the bat of Strauss and then later in the day when Pakistan desperately needed a wicket, Collingwood lost patience and went down the pitch to Kaneria, missed it and Akmal fumbled an absolute gift of a stumping. Collingwood was on 48 at the time. Now is 82*.
This woeful Keeping exhibition comes on top of his inexplicably bad performance against Australia in the Sydney Test earilier this year. Not surpirisingly, he was dropped after that but since has been reinstated again Go figure?
As i'm typing this, Imran Farhat puts down a absolute dolly of a catch at 1st slip off the bat of Morgan.
Morgan now 129* n.o.

England were 4/125 at one stage, now 4/337, what if? what if?


OUT

Collingwood LBW for 82. asks for a review and is ...................................................


Given OUT again. Eng 5/337 BUT what if.......... Pakistan had a Test standard Keeper ? and some slips that could catch.

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Morgan out for 130 lbw Mohammad Asif

England 6/348

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4 overs into day 2
Eng 4/337 (94 overs)

Surely Pakistan Keeper Kamran Akmal has to go !
Pakisatn have a good bowling attack but receive very little support from their keeper.
Yesterday Akmal dropped an absolute sitter off the bat of Strauss and then later in the day when Pakistan desperately needed a wicket, Collingwood lost patience and went down the pitch to Kaneria, missed it and Akmal fumbled an absolute gift of a stumping. Collingwood was on 48 at the time. Now is 82*.
This woeful Keeping exhibition comes on top of his inexplicably bad performance against Australia in the Sydney Test earilier this year. Not surpirisingly, he was dropped after that but since has been reinstated again Go figure?
As i'm typing this, Imran Farhat puts down a absolute dolly of a catch at 1st slip off the bat of Morgan.
Morgan now 129* n.o.

BUT what if.......... Pakistan had a Test standard Keeper ? and some slips that could catch.

Is it a case of putting batting skills ahead of pure keeping ability??
Kamran Akmal has a test ave of 33, with 6 centuries and can score at a good strike rate...have the Pakistanis looked at this and lost sight of his abissmal keeping of recent.
There is another keeper in the touring squad..Zulqarnain Haider, a 24 year old who has plenty of first class experience (74 matches) and also has a FC ave of 34.5...has played one T20I for Pakistan....will they call him up???? (they really should)

[Media Park]

When was the last decent Pak keeper...?

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Prior run out for 6 (huge mix up with Swann)

England 7/354

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When was the last decent Pak keeper...?

Wasim Bari

Will have a look later for you

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Another wicket

Swann lbw Asif 2

asif now has 4

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I cant keep up..another one

Anderson out first ball

Asif has 5/77 and on a hat-trick

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Hat-trick ball gets an edge but falls short on the slips

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ALL OUT

Broad b Gul 3

England 354

Have lost 6/17 in the last 10 overs, including the last 3/0