Another beautiful day in the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium; we were glad to be playing on a proper test ground. More of the match below but here are a few phrases of the day:
1. Deni Matthews - a good tourist who has withstood abuse aplenty from batsmen [and from his own team] and battled on manfully: today he "slightly" misjudged 2 catches from our new not demon bowler Opperman whilst fielding at very very deep and long on. Having failed to catch the ball 3 Indians who were watching the match from behind him in the stand said:
"What sport do you play?"
"You should expect the ball Matthews" [we have our names on our shirts and the locals love to cry out our names]
Deni was then slightly thrown when one of his own team urged him to get over the fact that he had been hit for 4 ["did it to keep him on strike skip"] by "showing some shropshire spunk"
2. Jamie Williams: batted well for 2 hours 18 minutes for 39 runs - clearly we are not aware it is a limited overs game!! He opened and was second last man out.
However, he should have been out cheaply when their demon fast bowler landed a howitzer on his big toe plumb in front; everyone howled...the opposition in appeal and then disbelief when the umpire refused the appeal...Jamie howled as he thought his big toe had ben broken!
3. The Umpires- they had a shocker; having wrongfully reprieved Jamie Williams one gave Oopperman and MacDougall out to slightly dubious LBW decisions but his big error was giving Jamie Cameron out first ball to a ball that Jamie played and missed at. The Pakistanis appealed for the click when Jamie hit his pad as he groped at thin air. Sadly the umpire gave him out for the ball hitting his glove - Jamie was a good foot from the ball. We hope we do not see him again tomorrow when we play India as he was trigger happy
4, How far the ball travels: other teams hit many sixes - we have yet to hit one!! We are convinced that they play
"with triple deckers and we play with the equivalent of a M&S healthy option
5. The game:
shot of the day - Guy Holland - but he got out
catch of the day - Ina Macdougall - but that only introduced their century making batsman
scores:
Pakistan: 334 for 6
England - all out for 107
ooops
India tomorrow
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