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KS55 said:
I remember a previous rare win in Pakistan. England batting fourth in fading light. Pakistan doing everything possible to get a draw: slow over rate, multiple field changes and so on. As England approached the winning line, Pakistan appealed against the light! “It’s dangerous for our fielders” they cried. Umpires: “Well you shouldn’t have wasted so much time then. Get on with it.”
England hit the winning runs in near darkness.
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I remember one of the newspapers the following day just had solid black boxes instead of pictures in its match report but with proper captions underneath. Things like 'Hussain glides the ball off his pads for a 4', 'the Pakistan fielders complain to the umpire about the light'. Very funny.
 
unicorn said:
A highpoint in English cricket history. Astounding.
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it's a very big result, even though Pakistan have been left behind in test cricket on home soil for a long time, they still have very good players and their fans on home soil are still crazy in love for test cricket,

I did feel the England bowling line up was short and lacking pace with Anderson and Robinson, that's why I thought the declaration was a wrong choice at the time, but stokes bent his back and Anderson and Robinson bowling bouncers even Joe root did a couple hahaha.

the real winners are the fans, it's so good to play Pakistan on their home pitches, we need places like touring to Pakistan, you learn so much about all parts of cricket from batting to bowling and playing under pressure, the fans' noise is incredible and fielding all day in the heat is a very big mental test.
 
Bluemoon dan said:
I remember one of the newspapers the following day just had solid black boxes instead of pictures in its match report but with proper captions underneath. Things like 'Hussain glides the ball off his pads for a 4', 'the Pakistan fielders complain to the umpire about the light'. Very funny.
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I think it was Steve Bucknor and nasser hussain batting in the dark
 
Pakistan must wonder what the fuck hit them, they will be fearful going into the next test. Will they try and slow it all down or meet fire with fire?
 
blue cigar said:
Pakistan must wonder what the fuck hit them, they will be fearful going into the next test. Will they try and slow it all down or meet fire with fire?
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What it does as well is teams won’t give us a gettable score in the final innings to win knowing how we play
 
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