[Cricket] Pakistan-England Test Series

[Eeyore]

Niche
Always enjoy looking through past series to see who had surprisingly bad series and scored lots of runs at the same time.
Vaughan's 02/03 Ashes is another classic - three big hundreds and a next highest score of 34. Two ducks.

I remember the Sydney Test of that series. England were 9/1 by then.

McGrath and Warne were absent and it was a dead rubber. Added to that, Sydney is a big hunting ground for England, a very good record there.

I had a punt, only a fiver, but I felt really smug that I had done the bookies.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I remember the Sydney Test of that series. England were 9/1 by then.

McGrath and Warne were absent and it was a dead rubber. Added to that, Sydney is a big hunting ground for England, a very good record there.

I had a punt, only a fiver, but I felt really smug that I had done the bookies.

I feel like our good record at Sydney owes a lot to how, back before they regularly played at Perth, they'd frequently play two tests at Sydney and/or Melbourne. And we happened to be much better relative to Australia then than we have been for the last 35years or so.

 

[Eeyore]

I feel like our good record at Sydney owes a lot to how, back before they regularly played at Perth, they'd frequently play two tests at Sydney and/or Melbourne. And we happened to be much better relative to Australia then than we have been for the last 35years or so.

Also helps having lost the Ashes by the time we get there ! (94/95, 02/03)

I lived in Sydney for a while and it does seem to produce more English weather conditions. I spent the Aussie summer there in 95/96. The English summer had been dry and very warm and it felt like a continuation of that (with a little bit more rain).

Having worked in London, I was living in a Sydney suburb called Dulwich Hill and traveled through Sydenham to work near Kings Cross !

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Also helps having lost the Ashes by the time we get there ! (94/95, 02/03)

I lived in Sydney for a while and it does seem to produce more English weather conditions. I spent the Aussie summer there in 95/96. The English summer had been dry and very warm and it felt like a continuation of that (with a bit more rain).

I read an article on the BBC a while back, about British migrants to Australia, which said that one of the main reasons they get depressed and move back is that they imagine Australia (or Sydney specifically) is really sunny, and then they get there and they realise Sydney gets more rainfall per year than London (obviously tending more towards the occasional torrential downpour end of the scale as opposed to frequent drizzle).
In the time I've been paying attention, we generally seem to have lost the Ashes and given up entirely by the time we reach Sydney. Pick random leg spinner who promptly gets smashed for 150 in about 20overs. 2011 being the obvious exception.

 

[Eeyore]

I read an article on the BBC a while back, about British migrants to Australia, which said that one of the main reasons they get depressed and move back is that they imagine Australia (or Sydney specifically) is really sunny, and then they get there and they realise Sydney gets more rainfall per year than London (obviously tending more towards the occasional torrential downpour end of the scale as opposed to frequent drizzle).
In the time I've been paying attention, we generally seem to have lost the Ashes and given up entirely by the time we reach Sydney. Pick random leg spinner who promptly gets smashed for 150 in about 20overs. 2011 being the obvious exception.

I can understand that. Had I settled anywhere it would have been Adelaide (I spent a lovely afternoon with the chap who ran the Aussie Albion Supporter's Club in Rostrevor). It was such a beautiful city.

I arrived in Sydney on a train at seven one morning with just a pack on my back and it immediately seemed like London but a pace behind it. I wondered how long it would take for me to be approached by someone. It took five minutes. A Lancastrian chap approached me and proceeded to tell me he had arrived there in 1953. 'I went to a ballroom in Blackpool and this girl wouldn't dance with me, so I came here...' I didn't take his advice on where to find digs which I was informed was rather astute thinking when I did arrive at my place of choice...

 

[jakarta]

Back to the game, Leach takes 3 wickets early on. He seems to blow hot and cold when it comes to taking wickets.

Poor old Azhar - he can at least say he has something in common with Don Bradman...

91-3

 

[jakarta]

99-3 at Lunch, can't believe TMS say Pakistan still in this, effectively 49-3. Two more down and it is Goodnight Irene...

 

[Is it PotG?]

Babar OUT.

 

[dazzer6666]

This lad has a bit of stardust about him……..

 

[Titanic]

Big breakthrough... Babar Azam gets to 50, then heaves a short one from Rehan Ahmed to Pope at short midwicket

164-4, leading by 114

 

[The Wizard]

Terrible ball from Rehan Ahmed gets Babar, cricket eh?

 

[The Wizard]

Game changer! Rizwan gone, 176/5, Ahmed finds the edge

 

[CHAPPERS]

Lovely length ball.

 

[Pevenseagull]

another big wicket for Ahmed.

Great stuff

 

[jakarta]

If Shakeel goes is that the game?

Pakistan are effectively 126-5

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

another big wicket for Ahmed.

Great stuff

And another

 

[CHAPPERS]

biiiiiiiiiiiig wicket

Michelle coming for the young man

 

[jakarta]

This boy might have a future in Test Cricket...

 

[Pevenseagull]

If Shakeel goes is that the game?

Pakistan are effectively 126-5

Quite possibly.

 

[jakarta]

6 down, time to get Wood on to give them a bit of chin music?