This match started on the anniversary of David Bairstow's death. There was a lot of emotion in Jonny's hundred celebration. Some things are more important than Ashes series
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Nick Hoult
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- ECB offer to host India and Pakistan Test series in England
- Root at toss:"I had a quid. I didn't know they provided a coin. I didn't want to look like a tight Yorkshireman who turned up with nothing"
- Karachi really is the city of lights tonight. Packed house for this one
- Harry Brook on his first fifty for England: “I like Pakistan. I had a bit of success in the PSL so it feels like I’m at home here.”
- Rizwan and Babar: 601 runs in the series The rest: 489 Result: England 4-3
- England have a bloke batting at three who likes to bat four, a bloke batting four who likes to bat five, a bloke batting five who likes to bat six, a bloke batting six who was picked as a specialist no 7 and a no 7 who scored 219 last week batting at no 3
- Holder on Alzarri Joseph: “Two or 3 years ago I visited his Mum. She was not well but fought through and I felt it personally when I got the news she had passed away. To see him in tears was even harder. We got in the huddle and just wanted to do it for him, his Mum and family.”
- Must be 500 people playing cricket in the park this morning in Karachi. Balls flying everywhere, not many defensive shots
- There were 377 dot balls in Brathwaite's 150 which is more than the entire number of deliveries faced by 6 England top six batsmen in the Ashes
- Tiny boundaries in Lahore. They obviously want a big score. Pity the bowlers
- The way its going, by the time England play Pakistan at Eden Gardens on Nov 11 both sides will lose
- Cricket has never known a time like it. Front and back pages of every paper
- England’s first training session at the National Stadium. Last time I was here it was about as dark as this but no floodlights #2000tour
