Second Test - England v Pakistan

[WCE2000]

at lunch on day 1, Pakistan are 3/86.

My Live Scorecard isn't working, it says 0/1 of 1.1 overs (and we're at lunch), and i'm realying on the report to get scores.

Is anyone else having problems with the Live Scorecard.

[WCE2000]

Pakistan 8/370 of 90 overs
Inzamam-ul-Haq 114
Younis Khan 65
Rashid Latif 64 no
Matt Hoggard 3/79 of 19 overs
Andy Caddick 3/93 of 25 overs

[Dipper]

Pakistan all out for 403

England in reply are 134/2

Thorpe 62*
Vaugnh 53*

Both sides are scoring at a cracking pace-the pitch is really very un English especially for Old Trafford, the ball is coming through quickly & the outfield is quick.So if England were to bat well (& I'm taking nothing for granted) 403 for Pakistan might not be enough to be sure of not losing the Test.

Australia 180/6
Australians 1st innings R M B 4 6
ML Hayden c Pipe b Kabir Ali 20 24 24 3 0
ME Waugh c Singh b Sheriyar 13 45 15 2 0
RT Ponting lbw b Liptrot 24 32 30 5 0
MG Bevan c Weston b Kabir Ali 33 91 76 4 0
*SR Waugh b Liptrot 30 52 40 4 0
DR Martyn not out 35 82 63 7 0
+AC Gilchrist c Leatherdale b Liptrot 21 51 37 2 0
SK Warne not out 1 2 5 0 0
Extras (lb 2, nb 1) 3
Total (6 wickets, 48.1 overs) 180

The Aussies are playing Worcestershire.

[servo]

Thanks for the Aussie update Dipper. We aren't getting a lot of info on the provoncial games here yet.

[GoEagles]

In reply to Pakistan's 403, England are now 2/204

Vaughan - 84*
Thorpe - 98*

The day stopped in the 62nd over after rain stuffed up play.

[Dipper]

We collapsed to 357 all out they made 323 to leave us a target of 370 to win which would be the 3rd or 4th highest in test cricket.
We were 0/82 at stumps on the 4th day off 22 overs so it looked as if we were going for it but on the 5th day they started with Saqulain Mushtaq & fairly negative field placings so it looks like they're going for the draw which I don't understand as it's a 2 match series they're 1-0 down & it's the first series to count in the new world championship.

At the moment it's half way between lunch & tea we're 2/175 with Trescothick 100* & Thorpe 1* so we need 195 off 40 overs but the current RR is dire so I'm not that confident.If those idiots opened up the field a bit & got Saqulain to throw a few up in the air rather than bowling into the rough outside leg stump they might have a chance of winning.I hope we can keep the scoreboard ticking over, not lose any wickets & reach a point where we can go for a slog like in 1 day game but without too much risk of losing.

[Dipper]

In hindsight my comments above look rather misplaced, the collapse has reared it's ugly head again into English cricket.In the 1st innings we went from 2/270 to 357 all out & in the 2nd we went from 0/157 to 200 odd all out.
But without wishing to sound like a whinging Pom there were some SHOCKING decisions-in the 2nd innings we were going along fine all 10 wickets left then Waqar is blatantly caught on TV digging his thumb into the ball & goughing it, the umpires do bugger all & he starts reverse swinging it miles.He takes a couple of wickets & then the collapse starts the feielders round the bat for Saqulain start running accross the pitch at every opportunity roughing it up & however many times the umpire warns them they still keep doing it BUT the biggest injustice was that 4 of our last 5 wickets were given out off of no-balls they showed the photos in all the papers next day & Saqulain got 3 off of blatant no-balls but Wasim got one off of a no-ball that was so far over hte line that you could have fitted Warnie's arse in the gap between Wasim's heel & the line.This was made worse by the news that the match referee had warned the umpires on the last day that they were missing loads of no-balls but this had no effect.To rub it in in the 1st innings Inzimam was caught off a no-ball from Cork, the no-ball was called & Inzimam went onto make a ton when if he'd gone the Pakis would have been struggling.

If all this sounds like sour grapes then you'd be right I'm a bad loser especially where Pakistan are concerned & I refuse to give them any credit for good play whatsoever.Still its the 1 day series now & I don't epect us to win a game we're hopeless at it & it's actually an embarrasment to watch us play it so expect the final to be between Australia & Pakistan.
Although Australia lost to Middlesex the other day & Ben Hutton top scored for Middlesex with 70 odd & if this name sounds familiar well it because the dude is the grandson of Sir Len Hutton, scorer of a world recored 364 against Australia in the 30's-so watch out Aussies! & guess what Middlesex have also got Dennis Compton's(one of the greatest batsmen ever) grandson on their staff.So if these 2 have inherited the family genes things could be looking up for us.(hooray!)