They’re still not enforcing the follow on!! Is Cook stoking his ego and looking for a quick fire century??
I like this quote from the BBC feed
"I’ve never seen Joe Root look out of form. Never.
I reckon you could storm into his hotel room at 4am, throw a ball in his direction and he’d still manage to middle it for four."
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Thats the 150 up in the second innings
Just declare and get Pakistan on th back foot
Guaranteed it will be a change of weather tomorrow and it will end a a draw.
To be fair they have got the fielder’s running round like idiots & the bar of soap moment was funny.
Perhaps Cook is feeling sorry for all those stuck in the queues outside & waiting until they get in before bowling…
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Pakistan are not going to get 550 if that had two innings - declare you twat
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Boycs view
“It’s like commentating on a charity match - just chuck it up. It’s overkill. Pakistan wouldn’t get these runs if I was bowling!”
Thank fuck for that
At fricking last, Pakistan need 565 to win or to survive 5 1/2 sessions to get a draw
5 1/2 sessions PLUS the extra 16 overs to make up for lost time yesterday 
Reckon the 16 overs might be enough
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I bowled to Geoff Boycott when I was about ten, and had him caught and bowled on the outfield at the United sevices Ground.
It took me twenty years to realise that I probably hadn’t fooled him into a mistake with my loopy spin bowling, I guess he just smacked one at me to see if i could catch.
Maybe he was just shocked to see you ‘passing’ the ball to him?
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Ha!
Or maybe he is complete fuckwit and went to the ground on the wrong day.
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Maybe you could keep your cliquey five-a-side jokes to the, oh so popular, 5-a-side thread.
Thanks
WICKET
Azhar lbw b Anderson 8 (Pak 25-2)
Posted at12:37Azhar Ali has been stitched up like a kipper.
James Anderson drags the batsman across with some nice outswingers, then nips one back into the right-hander’s pads.
That was plumb. He doesn’t even both reviewing it.
Cook drops Younous at 1st slip, he really, really should have pouched that, it wasn’t a hard chance.
Lunch day 4 Pakistan back in eventually needing 565 to win
presently 47 - 2
Third wicket falls at 83 - Mohammed Hafeez caught by Ballance off the bowling of Moeen.
102-4
Younus holes out trying to slog Ali over midwicket, hits it down the ground instead straight into Hales’ hands.
Msibah drags Woakes onto his leg-stump, departs having scored 35 runs
Pakistan 145-5