England vs Pakistan: England dominate first day as Pakistan woes continue

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1:34How would they fare? I've got Stuart Broad, Nolan Morgan alongside me to discuss the goings-on of day one. There were three debutantes for Pakistan, Razula Ghazagori, the wicketkeeper, and Mohamed Imran Randhawa, and Syama Youb was the fourth player that came into the XI. Change of team, change of squad, gentlemen, but not a change of fortune. It's been a bad day again for Pakistan. Yeah, it certainly has. Yet again, we're left wanting from the Pakistan team. We know they've been struggling of late, but there have been some individual performances that have been reasonably good, but the rest of it has been atrocious.

2:17And it kills me to say it, but it's been a one-horse race where England have dominated throughout the whole series. and that has just continued on today. Right from the moment Joe Root won the toss and wanted ball in hand with a little bit of low hanging cloud and the lights on. Yes, the ball moved around a bit, as you would expect, but nothing like we have seen in the first two test matches and Pakistan just went up to scratch. Their batters have failed to bat time again and unfortunately have found themselves bundled out for 133. Yeah, just 33 overs from a Pakistani point of view. I mean, a lot of the talk is obviously going to be around Pakistan and the turmoil that they find themselves in.

3:03But, Stuart, Marcus Treskothik in the interim was interviewed and mentioned the fact that he thought that this quartet of England pace bowlers were up there, would give the 2005 Ashes team a run for their money. Is that hyperbole at this stage, given the opposition, or is there something in that quote from Marcus? I think it's adventurous at the moment to compare them to the 05 bowling attack. You know, I think not that dissimilar bowling attack that lost in Australia, lost to New Zealand at the start of the season. And yes, it's been a highly successful series for the England bowling group and some brilliant individual performances led by Ollie Robinson.

3:47What's he averaging? 6.5 or something with the ball, 19 wickets, which is very special. but you have to judge the opposition they've been playing against, the pitches that they've bowled on. I think it's going to be the shortest test match summer for balls delivered since the 1950s, where seven days were washed out. So I don't think it's going to get any easier than this, probably in their test match careers. So hard to judge that, but you can only beat or only get out who's in front of you. And it just all worked against Pakistan, I think today, yes, they had the seven changes in the squad, the four changes in the team.

4:27You want to win the toss. You're just hoping. When you've made those changes, you're hoping. You need everything to go perfectly for you for you to stand a chance in a Test match. So to lose the toss, be put into bat, lights were on, clouds were in against a bowling tap full of confidence against a batting unit that has no confidence. then I look at Sean Massoud's dismissal, experienced player, his 50th Test match cap, he's been there, he's played county cricket, he knows what he's doing. So to chip the ball to mid-on and to get two of your top four caught mid-on in those conditions is not what you're after from a team.

5:08And as soon as you're then, what was it, 26 for four, you're scrapping and you're in a lot of trouble. Sal Shaquille played nicely. But, yeah, I think it's very early to compare this bowling attack to the success and the consistent success that that 05 attack had. I think maybe what Trus Gothic meant was they've got the Hoggard in Ollie Robinson. Yeah, the elements. The elements are there. But, no, I don't think you'd look at this series necessarily and go, we've really found our bowlers because if we're brutally honest, looking at the conditions that we've seen throughout this series, how much the ball has seemed, how much movement there's been.

5:53We've had Joe Root getting out for fun with his front pad, which we've never seen in his 14 ,000 test match runs. I must say most bowlers in county cricket that have taken 10 wickets or more in first-class cricket in England would have taken wickets in this Test Match series. OK, all right. Well, just to bring up the bowling figures once again for England, Ollie Robinson, 3 for 15 from 11. His average for the series has dipped below 7 runs per wicket. Joffre Archer was impressive again, bowled quickly, 3 for 25 from 7 and a bit. 4 for 42 for Josh Tung, who just, it looks like he's going to take a wicket every ball at the moment.

6:35And only poor old Gus Atkinson, who is only the one wicket in the series, He didn't pick up any himself for today. So I suppose that's the only cloud for England as far as the bowlers are concerned. Oli Robinson's 100th wicket, by the way, was the LBW of Simon Yu for nought. He went past 100. He's the first bowler since, I think, Ian Botham to take 100 test match wickets at an average below 20. And before that was Derek Underwood. So he's in esteemed company. And so, you know, there's very little you can say in complaint about the way England went about their business with the ball. Slightly lighter moment.

7:14During the course of the broadcast today, Stuart, who found himself with a spare moment, he has been rushed off his feet, I promise you, for most of the day, decided to dip into the 80s trend that has lit up Instagram and various other social media and posted photographs of all of the commentary teams So that'll be the three of us, Rouge, Muntaz, Mike Atherton. Chris Wokes is supposed to be joining us on Saturday. We might have to move him forward a bit. We're not sure we're going to get to Saturday. And then, of course, Nasser and Mike Atherton in our full regalia, really. Some incredible hairstyles, some incredible styling in terms of the kit.

7:57Your most successful Instagram post. If you haven't got Stuart Broad on Instagram, then follow him and see what he's got to offer. because it's very, very special. It was, so there's an 80s trend. I actually saw it. I followed David Warner and he'd posted a post overnight, our overnight, and it's a trend. He's quite up to date with his social media, David Warner, isn't he? Quite active. And it was an 80s trend. And I originally thought, you know, it'd be quite fun to get a picture of my dad in the 80s and then do an 80s version of myself and compare them. And then I was stood by the cart in the pre-show and I was looking at Ian Ward and for some reason I just started thinking, I wonder what Wardie would have looked like in the 80s?

8:41And that's where the idea came to me. I thought I'm going to do a post of our whole Sky Sports commentary team and it must have been, it took me, I was giggling on my eye, I didn't really say anything to anybody but it took me about an hour and a half of just playing around and then the last one I did was Nasser. Yeah. And then just seeing Nasser. I mean, he came out of it unbelievably well. I mean, Morgz, who turns 40 tomorrow, we're celebrating his entire birthday week this week. He's trying to keep that a secret. Oh, was he? Yeah. Oh, it's too late now. Morgz, you looked absolutely sensational.

9:17Couldn't believe it. Yeah. But Nasser. Nasser's never seen a gym in his life. Have you seen the size of the muscles? Yeah, quite exceptional. So that caused a bit of mirth in the midst of what was actually quite a gloomy day in the con box, because, you know, it's been a summer where the Test match cricket perhaps hasn't lived up to the billing. And we all love our five-day Test matches and sort of games ending in two and a half, three days. Not exactly things to thrill you, despite the fact that England are on top. So Stuart gave us a welcome diversion. Let's go back to the game itself. So England come out to bat, 133 in front of them, with most of the day left to play.

10:00And a big day for Emilio Gay. I mean, Jacob Bethel waiting in the wings. I believe he's been here at the ground today doing rehab on his injury. He is going to be coming back in for somebody. And Emilio Gay, perhaps, is the one who's come under the most pressure. And he made a really nice 60 today. Yeah, and I think he played really well. Certainly having bowled Pakistan out quite quickly, the England batting order would have thought, you know what, there aren't really any demons in this surface. and it's the only time that we can say this throughout this series where it's just been a very good wicket.

10:35Yeah, Leeds was, but the end sides didn't really make the most of it. I think Ducky was the only one that really kicked on and did. So an opportunity, if you did get yourself in, to go on and score big. He started well, stuck to his method, stuck to his guns, likes batting time, likes grinding it out, sticks to his cut, clip and drive. but unfortunately he'll be sitting in the sheds tonight gutted that he's not out overnight because there's a big score out there for somebody to go on and kick on and really hammer home England's position. And his own position as well. I guess that's the other point.

11:14Absolutely. And again, I think he's convinced everybody that he's good enough to play at this level. The only box he needs to tick is to go on and make that big contribution, get 100, 150, whatever it might be to really cement his spot in this side. And not the best of days for, you mentioned Ben Duckey there, Ben Duckey ended up sort of having a bit of a wild go. You were on commentary, I think, at the time, or just before Ben Duckey was dismissed, and he looked a little impatient, wanted to try and go out and assert himself, and nicked a wide one off Muhammad Ali. And I think you said at the time, it's a missed opportunity, really.

11:50There are enough bad balls out there to go out there and make a big score. Yeah, I think, you know, Bedducki got 100 at Trent Bridge, the only 100 from an England batter all summer in Test match cricket, which is really unusual, right? You're normally expecting one a Test match. I think 1999 was the last time. Considering the weather that we've had as well. Yeah, yeah. Although we didn't play much Test cricket when the weather was great. Yeah. But that's another story. I think 1999 was the last time that the Test side had less centuries in a Test summer. Vintage summer that was as well. Vintage summer.

12:26Knocked down the work before the song came out. Before the song came out. And bottom of the world in the test rankings at the end of it, yeah. It's a little bit rosier than that. A little bit rosier than that this summer. But, you know, I think that's been due to the pitches, to be honest. There's been a lot of movement, a bit of chaos around the England team at the start of the summer. So going back to Emilio Gay on that, is he has to reflect on the pitches he's played on, right? He's had the hardest summer for ball movement since 1999, theoretically. Yeah. And he's done OK. He's got three battling 50s.

13:03He would have loved a bigger score to cement his spot, but I think he's fine. He'll be on the plane to South Africa. That will be a different challenge completely. It won't seem as much as it has done in England this summer, but it will bounce. And I think that's maybe his issue from over the wicket if you run it across him with extra bounce, it could bring in those slip corners that you're playing at the Wanderers, you're playing at the Centurion. But now he's got a few months to look at that. And that ultimately, as international players, for as many years as we were here, every month you're looking at things, okay, where are teams going to target me?

13:36What do I need to improve? What's my foot position like? Where are my strengths? And he's got a great period of time now to look at how he can score runs in South Africa. And he's got the chance to be able to do that. I don't see major changes. Yes, I see Bethel coming back, for whom, unsure, Jordan Cox has done nicely this summer on pitches again that have moved. But he would be the natural one to miss out because he was the one that replaced Bethel. Yeah. So at the close on day one then, another day of dominance for England, the one man we haven't actually had the chance to mention was Razor Ullah.

14:12So we've been crying out over the course of the summer, where are all these fiery Pakistan fast bowlers? That's what they're known for. They have plenty of them back at home, despite what we've seen here on the trip. They pick Razula, young 21-year-old. He bowls 90 miles an hour and he knocks over none other than Joe Root in his very first over. Fourth ball into his spell, 90 miles an hour, pinned him to the crease, knocked him over. I mean, that was, in terms of a day where there haven't been a lot of highlights, really, or a lot to shout about, there was something to shout about for Pakistan fans and there was something to shout about for cricket fans in his performance today.

14:44Yeah, here it stood out like a sore thumb. We've spoken throughout the series about Pakistan's attack in general was quite samey with the bowling style in which they were trying to fulfil. But I think Brodie was on commentary, talked about the energy, the impact, just there was something happening with, you know, bowling upwards of 90 miles an hour. What did you think of him, seeing him for the first time? Remarkably he wasn't on the original plane, I suppose, over here. You know, he's first over in Test Match cricket, every single ball on the money. Gets the England captain, 14 ,000 Test Match runs pinned in front, 90 miles an hour, slightly slingy action so he can attack the stumps.

15:24He offers something different in a bowling attack. He's a bit, maybe bowled four or five over spells when you can book Mohamed Abbas in for eight, nine over spells. They bowl really nicely in a partnership. I think he's got a really exciting future I think we'd mentioned before in the Comanche Box that the pace, the flair, the excitement of Pakistan cricket hasn't disappeared they're just not picking that style of player so I think it was really encouraging that he got an opportunity and he's someone that the Pakistan fans can get excited about he's someone that when he gets the ball you want to watch what's going to happen he brings that energy, enthusiasm and deserves a bit of a run in the side.

16:06I know we're judging that off eight overs or nine overs he's bowled today. Well, given what we've seen before, that was a very, very fine eight overs from him. OK, so we finished the first day of the final Test match here with England 23 runs to the good. They're four down. Harry Brook is 52 not out. He's got Dan Lawrence for company at the crease. And you would imagine that England are going to push on and make a very big lead at some point tomorrow. and then get back at the hapless Pakistan batting line-up. It has been a day of few highlights. Razula provided one for Pakistan. Ollie Robinson going to 100 wickets was another.

16:42But really, the winner all day has been Stuart Broad's Instagram page. Log on and have a look. See you tomorrow.