creeeeeeeekeeeeeet

[BWFC_Insane]

Fastest a test side has ever scored 500. Not exactly surprising this is an innings you won’t see often.

What a position to be in. Bet Stokes and Mccullum are wishing they’d picked the extra bowler now though.

England can bat till lunch day two and this rate be over 650. And frankly given the pitch there is no real reason to declare because your only hope of winning is batting once I suspect and hoping the pitch turns a bit day 4 and 5.

Whatever Brendan Mccullum has done to this team the man deserves knighting. Never seen a turnaround like this.

Brook looked absolutely assured getting his 100 too and in normal circumstances he’d not be picked. Suddenly gone from a side who you could hardly name a test level batsman for to a side that has too many options to choose from.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Fookin hell, what is going on?

When was the last time the first 3 up hit tons?

Not sure but the last time we scored 4 tons in an innings isn't that long ago - 2007.

2007? I was almost a young whipper snapper back then

[Worthy4England]

Fookin hell, what is going on?

When was the last time the first 3 up hit tons?

Not sure but the last time we scored 4 tons in an innings isn't that long ago - 2007.

2007? I was almost a young whipper snapper back then

All comparative - with England's batting, you're often looking back to the 1930's or the 1890's!

As to the 4 hundreds v West Indies in 2007, they actually had us at 83-2 at one point, Cook scored 100 at no2, then 5,6 & 7 all scored tons (Collingwood, Bell, Prior)

[BWFC_Insane]

Fookin hell, what is going on?

When was the last time the first 3 up hit tons?

Not sure but the last time we scored 4 tons in an innings isn't that long ago - 2007.

2007? I was almost a young whipper snapper back then

All comparative - with England's batting, you're often looking back to the 1930's or the 1890's!

As to the 4 hundreds v West Indies in 2007, they actually had us at 83-2 at one point, Cook scored 100 at no2, then 5,6 & 7 all scored tons (Collingwood, Bell, Prior)

I’m wondering if any side has ever had 4 centurions in a single day?

[Worthy4England]

Dunno mate - I suspect there's a lot more stats to come from today's performance in the next couple of days...

[Worthy4England]

Dunno mate - I suspect there's a lot more stats to come from today's performance in the next couple of days...

Edit - first time there's been four centurions on day 1. (not sure about on any other days...)

[Worthy4England]

181 for 0 in reply - still a long way off, but maybe giving the wicket some context...

[Bruce Rioja]

181 for 0 in reply - still a long way off, but maybe giving the wicket some context...

Well, I was quite surprised to see that at yesterday's close, that those you know far more about it than me were predicting something like a 43% chance of it ending in a draw.

[TANGODANCER]

181 for 0 in reply - still a long way off, but maybe giving the wicket some context...

Think it might be hinted at as a batters wicket...somehow? We could do with a break-through though.

[Worthy4England]

181 for 0 in reply - still a long way off, but maybe giving the wicket some context...

Think it might be hinted at as a batters wicket...somehow? We could do with a break-through though.

Next one will probably be like a corrugated tin roof.

[Worthy4England]

Yeah - although we got there quite a lot quicker, there's actually 1 run difference between the scores when the 4th wicket went down - we were 462, they were 413. In fact if you look wicket for wicket so far, they're pretty closely matched...

1st Eng 233, Pak 225
2nd Eng 235, Pak 245
3rd Eng 286, Pak 290
4th Eng 462, Pak 413

Guess it's just whether we could polish the tail from here...

Edited: I updated the 4th innings...

[TANGODANCER]

Could they manage the first innings total record? (not looked what it is)

[TANGODANCER]

Could they manage the first innings total record? (not looked what it is)

Hey up, Babar's gone....... and another one bites the dust too....

[Worthy4England]

On the first innings aggregate, Sri Lanka hit something like 950 in response to India's 580 in the 90's so I think they'd need 800 or so...not sure if there's a higher first innings aggregate....

[TANGODANCER]

Cheerts Worthy. 499-7 at close makes a day end well.

[Worthy4England]

Cheerts Worthy. 499-7 at close makes a day end well.

Aye. Not too often, you give yourselves a pat on the back when the oppo have hit 500 and still have 3 wickets left

[TANGODANCER]

Pakistan score 579...but it isn't enough...We're 185-3 second innings and looking pretty good...

[Prufrock]

We're going to lose this

[Worthy4England]

Doooooooomed!

[Bruce Rioja]

We're going to lose this

My theoretical money's on the draw.