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England, THRASHED!

India on the ropes...

Game over, series over, the big mouthed & big headed England team can head home having been comprehensively outplayed on a turning track in Rawalspindi.

ENG 267 (Smith 89, Duckett 52, Sajid 6/128, Noman 3/8 & 112 (Noman 6/42, Sajid 4/69)
PAK 344 (Saud 134, Sajid 48*, Noman 45, Rehan 4/66, Bashir 3/129) & 37/1 (Masood 23* off 6 balls)

Pakistan win by 9 wickets and take the series 2-1.

Man of the match - Saud Shakeel
Man of the series - Sajid Khan (19 wickets @ 21)

Already crying about the pitches...well, beauty of test cricket is it is not always played on a dullard of a track like the kiddie cricket whack a ball crowd enjoy. Home advantage should mean home advantage. Seaming, swinging green tops in the UK have often found tourists out...so when a spin friendly strip is served up, shut up and take your medicine


If New Zealand can wrap up the India tail - they are currently struggling on 168/7 chasing an unlikely 359, then both of the big boy teams will have lost a test series on the same day. A good day for cricket friends...

NZ - 259 (Conway 76, Ravindra 65, Washington 7/59, Ashwin 3/64) & 255 (Latham 86, Phillips 48*, Washington 4/56, Jadeja 3/72)
IND - 156 (Santner 7/53) & 170/7 (Jaiswal 77, Santner 5/64)