My dear old things, it's STW TMS!

If they just keep going, Root could be in second place by the end of this test!!

Yet another England collapse. When will they learn?

Getting interesting now

41/3

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41/4

I don’t get the negative talk about a collapse – they made 823 and declared, one batter scored over 300 and another over 250, it’s a non-issue for me. Once root was gone the best thing to do was be aggressive, add as many runs to the total as possible, declare and put Pakistan straight in to bat when they were tired and conditions would hopefully be favourable for bowling later in the day.

Pakistan now 41-4 with their opener dismissed with the first ball of the innings – looks like it worked…

Agreed – finishing on 823 dec can hardly ever be called a collapse – in the run-up to the declaration the pitch had started to turn a bit so I assume Pope decided it was time to make the best of the conditions and, as stated above, it was clearly the right decision.

Regulation catch, flew through some hands. 🙂

RM.

^^^^^^

You do realise the “collapse” comment was a joke don’t you?

Personally I’d like to have seen them written the game off as a draw and go for 1000 runs. But from a winning point of view then declaring looks like it was a smart move.

I hadn’t spotted that, no – my bad! I’d just read/heard a similar serious comment elsewhere so perhaps wrongly assumed Simon was serious too.

59 for 5!

You do realise the “collapse” comment was a joke don’t you?

DOH!

There’s a collapse coming alright.

I’m not sure Multan is high up the list of places that budding young seam bowlers would like to visit. But, then again, they aren’t playing in Faisalabad this tour…

I notice the 2nd Test is also being played in Multan.

It is now very apparent why a par score in the PSL is often 200+.

Nice to see the Aussies under the pump. Some turnaround by India!

Well it looks like both sides decided they wanted a one innings game instead. From what I could tell, the Aussies bowled both sides of the wicket too much and the green zip seems to have gone out of the pitch.

Jaiswal is a lovely batter, though.