Pakistan Test Series

[Butter_Fingers]

Poor Will Jacks probably went into the last day thinking he had a great chance of picking up a 10-for on debut, yet he only bowled six overs(6-0-38-0)

And every day is a learning day, I know Pakistan have played very little home Test cricket for a good few years now, but apparently you have to go all the way back to 1986 since one of their spinners have taken a five-for in the 4th innings of a Test match on home soil, staggering considering the spinners they've had since then and they used to prepare pitches especially for them.

[lancsdes]

Dec 5, 2022 11:39:09 GMT Admin said:

“Won”


We know  the game don’t we Admin ? 🙂

[Admin]

Always find if you win games at the end of a five day fames are always the ones to really celebrate as you have had to work hard for them and yesterday they did. Anderson won't go on for ever but give the captain massive praise leads from the front although he can be destructive with the bat, it's his bowling which is the key, turned a test in South Africa a couple of years back with a very long spell on the last day, did the same yesterday, also put in a tremenddous bowling spell on the next to the last day against teh Aussies at Leeds when we won by 1 wicket

[Admin]

The Multan Cricket Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan, owned by the Pakistan Cricket Board.[2] The stadium is located off Vehari Road, in the suburbs of Multan. It has a capacity of 30,000.[1] It hosted its first test match in August 2001, when Pakistan faced Bangladesh in the 2001–02 Asian Test Championship.

As of June 2022, the stadium has hosted five Test matches[3] and ten One Day Internationals.[4]

The ground was inaugurated in 2001 as a replacement for the Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium located in the heart of Multan. The first Test match at the stadium took place in August 2001 between Pakistan and Bangladesh, while the first One Day International was held on 9 September 2003 between the same teams. Floodlights were later installed to make day/night cricket matches possible. The first day/night game played at this ground was between arch-rivals India and Pakistan on 16 February 2006.[5]

Return of international cricket
In April 2018, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced that the venue, along with several others in the country, would get a makeover to get them ready for future international matches and fixtures in the Pakistan Super League.[6]

This stadium hosted its first Pakistan Super League match on 26 February 2020 between Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi. This stadium hosted three matches during the 2020 Pakistan Super League. It is the home ground of Mohammad Rizwan-led Multan Sultans.

On 30 May 2022, the PCB announced that Multan Cricket Stadium would host a three match ODI series against the West Indies in June. Multan hosted its first international match in 14 years, with the first ODI against the West Indies on 8 June 2022.[7]

In August 2022, the PCB announced that Multan would serve as one of the venues for the home Test series against England in December 2022.[8] It last hosted a Test match in 2006.

[Butter_Fingers]

Pope keeps the gloves, and Wood comes in for Livingstone.

[Butter_Fingers]

Meanwhile in Australia Labuschagne keeps going and going, 204 and 104* in the first test, now 102* on the first day of the 2nd Test - so that ten centuries in his first 30 Test matches now, staggering stuff.

[Butter_Fingers]

Bespectacled Abrar Ahmed the 24 year old Leggie(76 wkts @ 25.56 in 14 f-c matches) bowls Crawley with his 5th ball in Test cricket.

With Iman-ul-Haq also being a glasses wearer, I'd guess that it's the first-time that has happened in Test cricket.


Latest: England 69-1(14) Duckett 34* Pope 13*

[Admin]

I bowl, bat and field in glasses somehow think possibly being picked from obscruity to Test cricket is a non starter, think it may just be 145-3 as a review on Root looks out and is 145-3

[Butter_Fingers]

Abrar Ahmed finishes with figures of 22-1-114-7 taking the first 7 wickets, and he became the first spinner to take 5 wickets before lunch on Test debut, albeit an extended session, and why Pakistan gave a debut to Zahid Mahmood(34) who in 13 years of first-class cricket has never been close to Test selection before, and who goes for 38 runs per wicket in the first Test when they had this guy waiting in the wings was weird at the time but now looks a bonkers move by the selectors.

[Butter_Fingers]

Wrecking my brain here trying to remember if any of the following played with another glasses wearer:

Clive Lloyd
Paul Allott
Eddie Barlow
David Steele
Zaheer Abbas
MJK Smith
Daniel Vettori
Dilip Doshi
N Hirwani
Anil Kumble
Dirk Wellham
Geoffrey Boycott
Roy Marshall

Possible MJK Smith and Boycott did in the 60's, and Lloyd and Allott at Lancashire as their time at the club overlapped, just can't remember seeing them together both wearing specs.

[Admin]

Smith and Boycott did although Sir Geoff wore contacts later on

[Butter_Fingers]

Think Sehwag did towards the end, his shades were fooling no one.

[Dave Towers]

Lloyd and Andrew Kennedy?

[Butter_Fingers]

Dec 9, 2022 19:41:28 GMT Dave Towers said:

Lloyd and Andrew Kennedy?

Good call. There's a good chance Allott made it a trio then.

Think Steve Camacho, the West Indian opener did as well, and will almost certainly have played alongside Clive Lloyd for the Windies, and Guyana at some point, though not sure he was wearing glasses when Andy Roberts playing for Hampshire fractured his cheekbone on the 73' tour.

[Butter_Fingers]

Before my time these 8:

Pankaj Roy
Walter Hadlee
Alf Valentine
Percy Fender
Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, aka Vizzy
Bill Bowes *
Tommy Mitchell *
Sonny Moloney(NZ)

* part of the squad on the Bodyline series.

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Anshuman Gaekwad
Charles Coventry(Zimbabwe)

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and I think Mitchell Santner does now.