I have no expectations for our test series against England.

Asia Cup 2018 to be played in the U.A.E between September 13th-28th. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and the winner of the Asia Cup qualifier will compete..... apparently it’s been moved from India to UAE but still hosted by BCCI??

Inzi squeezed his nephew in the squad for Ireland and England despite having a 34 average in domestic first class.

bowling attack looked toothless in the warm up, i think they will leave out Shadab and play 4 quicks in this series

Amir looks out of form again. Never rated Rahat.

Abbas will do well and then it's down to Hasan and Shadab. We might go with 4 quicks and Shadab.

Shadab and Fahim as supposed all rounders.

Well use this thread for the Paddies one off test and then when we play England there will be a new thread

Is Ireland vs Pakistan televised anywhere?

Its on sky. Raining at moment though.

Massive potential for an upset here. What do Pakistan gain for agreeing to this series. Nothing. Weather and general conditions favour the Irish...

Proper warm for the England tests was the aim. Better than playing some County team reserves.

4 day test it is then

First impressions: Imam-ul-Haq shouldn't be getting a game ahead of Sami Aslam.

Wtf are sky playing at? They were showing it and then started showing ipl?

comment by Tu Meke Ainsley (U3732)
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Wtf are sky playing at? They were showing it and then started showing ipl?
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Red button unless you have the dodgy box?

Iman is only getting a game due to Inzi. 34 domestic average is very poor.

Also Azhar should not be opening.

Some good line and length bowling that got Ireland wickets today.... England will be bowling like that pretty much all the time so the signs aren’t good for Pakistan based on today’s top order performance.

Terrible decision to enforce the follow on. Should have batted them out of the game.

Nah it was the correct decision. Shame our fielders can’t hold onto simple catches. Both openers should have been out before they hit double figures. Amir unlucky again.

the follow on was fine how could it not be after you bowl a team out for that low a total

No one enforces follow on now. You only leave yourself vulnerable on a wearing pitch. We have fluffed some low score chases last few years.

tbh Im sure they were thinking the amount they skittled the irish out for 1st time they could get out of there before it hit day 5

Agree, I was surprised that we enforced the follow on. Given the shoddy batting from the top order, we needed them to be out in the middle to get bat on ball and get some momentum going......... very odd to put them in again.

Decent enough morning in the end. Would have still preferred our batters getting a chance.

32 lead with 4 wickets left. Ireland are in the game if they get a 100 lead.

Looking for 150 lead now kash. With our history, this could get embarrassing. Said it before, no incentive to agree to this. Get the practice bit, but we fecked that up by enforcing the follow on

Ps- how shtt is Rahat Ali. Complete waste. Sarfraz dropped couple of catches too and there’s another stumping sitter missed.