Winter Tour playing Pakistan & South Africa

[Alex]

Cook is doing fairly incredible considering he was standing in the field and now batting for the whole game. Around 24 hours!

[Buzzo]

I still dislike him too much to find it in my heart to give him any credit.

[Alex]

I like him as a batsman, he's impressive with his tedium at the crease. However as a Captain and a person he's dull as arseholes.

Plus the whole Public school boy prefect vibe gets on my tits.

[Buzzo]

Yeah, his old school batting style is quite impressive at times.

I get the feeling is utterly hate him if I met him.

[Chazza]

Cook out for 263.

[Chazza]

Buttler could have done with a score.

[Vermilion]

Ha! is this the same wicket ?

[Alex]

I love that that game is being played in the middle of an industrial estate.

[Alex]

England need 70 runs before the light fails.

Touch and go this. Cook has let the attacking batsmen in first, but Ali and Buttler are gone. Get Root and Stokes in to nudge it around and we will be good I think.

[ChesterDave]

Light could be the things that stops us here.

30 needed

[ChesterDave]

****. 25 runs short with 7 overs not played.

Drawn.

[EwarWoo]

That was a shame. A tense finish ruined by slow play, though I'm sure we'd have done the same.

[Chazza]

Steady start for England after losing the toss.

Pakistan 99-3

[Yozza]

Second Test, Dubai, day one

Pakistan 282-4: Misbah 102*, Younus 56

England: Yet to bat

[Yozza]

DAY 2 OF 5

PAK First innings 378 all out

ENG First innings 14 - for 2 wickets (5.1 overs)

England are trailing by 364 runs.

2 early wickets for Pakistan....