Zak Crawley made a good come back and took advantage of the opportunity he got in this series and scored his maiden ton and he is poised to score a double century and along with Jos Buttler who is short of century took the game away from Pakistan, the worrying factor for England is that the top order is not performing consistently and if not for the fifth wicket partnership things could have been different.
True. Although there is a slight chance for Pakistan to come back hard and make a draw out of this match, I don't see a chance available for levelling the series. ENG has a clear upper hand in this match and I don't think that Pakistan could sack ENG in their second innings thereby winning this match and levelling the series. They had a chance at toppling the English innings when they managed to grab some quick wickets, but the partnership between Crawley and Butler costs them badly.
Pakistani management not taking any lesson from mistakes and doing again and again just because of this now they are on verge of losing this second test match and series so badly today England was really on top from start of match and they outclass all bowlers just Muhammad Abbas done some good bowling others was really poor Yasir was also some good in start but after this big partnership he also lost his rythum now England in all control lets see how they do tomorrow.
Not sure if blaming management or selectors is going to solve any problem right now. Pakistan went there with more than 20 plus players and best fast bowlers playing in the match, Afridi and Naseem are young players and lack experience so they will learn with the experience as the time goes but i am sure no one really want to see old Wahab Riaz replacing them in the Whites.
I think that this match is already out of Pakistan’s hand, and if England manage to score 500+ runs, and also manage take some early wickets, then I believe that Pakistan innings will crumble and eventually they’ll loose the match.
Also @JSRAW has a fair point at this stage those player’s are young, and they need to get experiences like this to get better, and hence instead of being critical of the selectors we should instead appreciate them for taking such risks, and giving these player’s the required experience that will help them become better player’s in the long run.
