Cricket Thread III

[narayanan]

CLASSIC <!--emo&tupid--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pakee.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pakee.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&tupid--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pakee.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pakee.gif' /><!--endemo--> ROADRUNNER SHOW. Pakis spend months making two dead pitches, and then a fast swinging, cutting pitch for DAY 1 morning.

Pakis fall in it.


Apparently the pitch is now OK : 225 for 7 at last check. Kamran Akmal going strong past century, even Shoaib heading for a fifty.


The term "Innings defeat" seems written large on the scoreboad. <!--emo&tupid--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pakee.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pakee.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&tupid--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pakee.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pakee.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->56.2 Pathan to Kamran Akmal, OUT: offcutter, the ball pitches just
        outside off, grips the pitch and kisses the edge of Akmal's bat as
        he is committed to the front-foot stroke, Dhoni dives and takes a
        good catch!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

That was 236 for 8. Now 241 for 8: