England vs Pakistan - 4th ODI

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So here we are then, England looking to inflict some measure of revenge for the test series by whitewashing Pakistan in turn in the ODIs.

Both teams make plenty of changes. For England, Briggs and Buttler are handed their debuts in place of Swann and Bopara, while Bresnan and Dernbach get their first outings of the tour in place of Broad and Anderson. Pakistan make another raft of changes, with Imran Fahrat dropped for Shoiaib Malik (suggest Azhar Ali will open), and Rehman and Junaid Khan coming in for the two seamers Umar Gul and Aizaz Cheema. Just one seamer for Pakistan then.

Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Umar Akmal, Shoiab Malik, Shahid Afridi, Adnan Akmal (wk), Junaid Khan, Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal.

England: Cook (capt), Pietersen, Trott, Morgan, Buttler, Kieswetter (wk), Patel, Bresnan, Briggs, Dernbach, Finn.

Pakistan have won the toss and will bat first, unsurprisingly.

oh gawddd-

umpire not having th ebest days that is for sure

KP plays a daft shot but survives on review, hit outside the line.

Still going well, rr is below 6 still. Only Patel and Bresnan left who can bat though so need to be careful.

"Watch the spin"

Congrats gents.

ohhh he is out

Kp will see you home.

What a shame, i really wanted to see Kieswetter get his 50.

Ready for the car shah?

I told you I had a plan. :P

I dont believe you

Its been a very welcome return to form for KP though

ShahenshahG wrote:Congrats gents.

but you've won it to be honest.

ok for a scratch team though.

with this slow scoring rate they have no hope of getting that many runsin so few overs.

eirebilly wrote:I dont believe you

Wording is important when making a bet eheheheheheheh

Then you are a bit cheeky shah and slightly evil

Hey - someone will end up very very happy - someone very dear to me - only it wont be my mate.

still, must be a good feeling to bounce back after a bad series shah.

Aha, the girl gets the car then?

hahaha - not even close today - without two pacemen and hafeez and afridi off - SIX england win tonight quite comfortably. Kp is as sound as a pound under pressure.

KP--

Well done KP

Gregers must be fuming right now

Not the girl. Mummy dearest. I get her rather fantastic car and she gets the car she wanted for a month long test drive

Ah you're a good man looking after your mum

ridiculas umpiring today! - guy needs to go specsavers!

anyway good advert for the drs system!

Hi guys. Been bloody busy at work today.

Tight finish, this.

Marvellous stuff from Mr Pietersen again.

I shall be back in a few minutes. Gotta talk to car hire company

Its hard to believe that 116 is KP's higest ODI score.

mystiroakey wrote:ridiculas umpiring today! - guy needs to go specsavers!

anyway good advert for the drs system!

I don't like this type of comment. He's had a poor day yes, but any worse than a lot of the players? Thing is, as an umpire when you're not having a good day there's nowhere to hide...

Anyway, I agree that the Patel decision was a poor one (the Pietersen one was understandable, given the movement of the batsman).

Mike Selig wrote:

mystiroakey wrote:ridiculas umpiring today! - guy needs to go specsavers!

anyway good advert for the drs system!

I don't like this type of comment. He's had a poor day yes, but any worse than a lot of the players? Thing is, as an umpire when you're not having a good day there's nowhere to hide...

Anyway, I agree that the Patel decision was a poor one (the Pietersen one was understandable, given the movement of the batsman).

the cook one was bad as well- reversed to give him out

i agree that umpires get abit to much slack-its a tough job- however as i have mentioned its why we have drs(even though it can also be improved)- bad umpiring days show us how far we have come!! and its a better place

Superb innngs today from KP, really outstanding. Kept his head and guided England home beautifully.

Genuinely congrats to pietersen for carrying his bat - well done. Crisis averted from my end

abit gutted for him- but great innings

OMG NO! why now!!!

Damn me.....

Hide your wallet Shah

no way, you win shah. without question.

ENGLAND WELL DONE

Hide my wallet for what you missed my dastardly plan earlier :P

eirebilly wrote:Superb innngs today from KP, really outstanding. Kept his head and guided England home beautifully.

he did brilliantly... but he hasn't got them quite home Billy.
Bresnan did in the end.

thank God for that.

Counter cursing Shah is hard work,

Trebel - that test series hurt you badly didn't it?

no, i foundit quite funny.

But i could see work was needed with your very clever curse praises going on.

I have a cunning opponent now.

ahaha. I shall curse england in pm from now on.

haha.

Another sensational knock from KP today

If he keeps this up I'm going to have to start reversing my thoughts on him!

well a very special knock from Pietersen, paced his innings perfectly useful supporting knock from Kieswetter too, showing that he may very well be capable of adapting to his new role in the middle-order. Good to see we can win without Cook contributing. Someone else who hasn't received any praise here is Samit Patel, who played his part perfectly in supporting KP at the end.

Danny Briggs