England tour of Pakistan 2024 | Belt and Road Initiative series Part 2 |3 Tests | Oct 7 - Oct 28 | 10:30 AM IST | Discussion

[Gollum]

How much test cricket do Poms play? In 2022 they toured Pak for 3 tests, once again now. Root, Anderson, Broad the biggest beneficiaries where they get to statpad against minnows ever so often. 

 

Kohli, Rohit, Ash, Jaddu, Shami too are in mid 30s and have missed out on so many records, despite being no less than these English greats. 

[Lone Wolf]

20 minutes ago, Gollum said:

How much test cricket do Poms play? In 2022 they toured Pak for 3 tests, once again now. Root, Anderson, Broad the biggest beneficiaries where they get to statpad against minnows ever so often. 

 

Kohli, Rohit, Ash, Jaddu, Shami too are in mid 30s and have missed out on so many records, despite being no less than these English greats. 

Eng frequently tours places like NZ and WI I think... I understand that Eng tour of Windies is massive for local economy of Islands & thousands of English supporters go there.

But they do play NZ a lot even outside of WTC.

 

Then there would be one off tests vs Ireland on  regular basis & next year before India series they will play 4 day test vs Zimbabwe after 2 decades (I guess)

 

Root can easily go past SRT by playing well below the level he is currently playing.

 

[Ultimate_Game]

Is England in contention for WTC final spot? If yes, I would like to see Pak beat them so India's chances of making it into WTC final increases. Else, don't really care and would prefer Pak entertaining us with their humorous brand of cricket by unleashing a pace battery which struggles to breach 130kph mark, spinners like Shadab Khan who can't land the ball on length, and specialist batsmen averaging in 20s 

[Norman]

1 hour ago, Ultimate_Game said:

Is England in contention for WTC final spot? If yes, I would like to see Pak beat them so India's chances of making it into WTC final increases. Else, don't really care and would prefer Pak entertaining us with their humorous brand of cricket by unleashing a pace battery which struggles to breach 130kph mark, spinners like Shadab Khan who can't land the ball on length, and specialist batsmen averaging in 20s 

 

No they're definitely not in contention thanks to the massive 19 point reductions for slow over rates. 

 

We can definitely enjoy them spanking our nalayak sons.

[Gollum]

Belt and Road Initiative series, nice title @Tillu 

[Ultimate_Game]

2 hours ago, Norman said:

 

No they're definitely not in contention thanks to the massive 19 point reductions for slow over rates. 

 

We can definitely enjoy them spanking our nalayak sons.

 

Good! Now we can enjoy no matter happens! If Pak loses, we laugh at them, else we'll make fun of poms of not even able to beat minnows 

[Lone Wolf]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

Belt and Road Initiative series, nice title @Tillu 

Belt treatment by Poms on Pakistani roads is what I think this means 

Edited October 5, 2024 by Lone Wolf

[Norman]

All jokes aside, I think we are being way too overconfident of Poms smacking Poyzz this time around. I feel this series is going to be much closer than most of us think and won't be surprised at all if Pak ties 1-1 or even win 2-1. 

[jigjig]

Guys, this will be a tight series. Pakistan have a good chance 

[Tillu]

[jigjig]

5 hours ago, Tillu said:

3 0 to Pakistan 

[Frustrated]

This Eng bowling attack looks very weak & inexperienced.  Pooks hv a golden chance of winning the series. 

[Chaos]

This would be soo boring. England will score at 6+ rpo. 

[neel roy]

On 10/5/2024 at 3:27 PM, Gollum said:

How much test cricket do Poms play? In 2022 they toured Pak for 3 tests, once again now. Root, Anderson, Broad the biggest beneficiaries where they get to statpad against minnows ever so often. 

 

Kohli, Rohit, Ash, Jaddu, Shami too are in mid 30s and have missed out on so many records, despite being no less than these English greats. 

FTP and WTC idiosyncrasies. India played Aus away in 2018 and then again 2020 without a home series in between.. india again played saf away in 2022 ( series loss still hurts) and again in 2024 without a home series in between. India played nz at home in 2022 ( iyer debut) and are playing against them again in 2024 without any away series in between. So yeah it is indeed a bit lopsided. Only against poms we always play one away and one home.. ECB honchos plans everything 4 years in advance..

[neel roy]

4 hours ago, jigjig said:

3 0 to Pakistan 

Last 4 home series. There is a thing called acknowledgment of facts before throwing fiction. Facts below

 

0-3 England

0-1 Aus

0-0 NZ ( last wicket saved their ass)

0-2  Bangladesh

 

 

[Sgattick10]

Brydon carse is express pace?! 

https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/he-has-express-pace-ex-england-cricket-captain-nasser-hussain-hails-south-africa-born-pacer-brydon-carse-set-to-make-england-test-debut-6724179

 

[Norman]

1 hour ago, neel roy said:

Last 4 home series. There is a thing called acknowledgment of facts before throwing fiction. Facts below

 

0-3 England

0-1 Aus

0-0 NZ ( last wicket saved their ass)

0-2  Bangladesh

 

 

 

This is the history of the Paxtan !

[jigjig]

3 hours ago, neel roy said:

Last 4 home series. There is a thing called acknowledgment of facts before throwing fiction. Facts below

 

0-3 England

0-1 Aus

0-0 NZ ( last wicket saved their ass)

0-2  Bangladesh

 

 

They got the team selection right this time 

[neel roy]

31 minutes ago, jigjig said:

They got the team selection right this time 

Only change I see is Aamer Jamal and a spinner. Where is the difference from last team can you kindly enlighten?

[jigjig]

1 hour ago, neel roy said:

Only change I see is Aamer Jamal and a spinner. Where is the difference from last team can you kindly enlighten?

Proper spinner. Shaheen and Naseem did not play second test.

 

Jamal is a tested player in Aus.

 

Looks a much better squad.