[statguru]

All it took was the return of Harmison for Pakistan to crumble to dust?

 

[bouncer]

But when Harmison bowls like that, he is unstoppable. You can’t blame the Pak batsmen.

 

[stillbatting]

What bothers me is that we have nothing to counter that, nothing. No Shoaib, no Rana, no Asif, and almost the entire England batting line-up to get through.

 

[Rajas]

The attack that won the Bangalore Test in March 2005 was, on paper, weaker than this one (Arshad Khan played and not Umar Gul).

 

[bouncer]

Would Shahid Afridi have been a better choice to open, not because he might have scored more runs than Kamran Akmal but because the strength of the lower order vital part might not have been drained?

 

[tensport]

Did you see the shot Afridi played to get out? The man’s a lunatic and should not bat in Tests. Think back to Sri Lanka thrashing this England side, and then look at the Pakis.

 

[stillbatting]

Ultimately, despite the bowling, there will be few Pakistani batsmen – apart from Inzamam-ul-Haq – who can point to either an uncertain bounce or a special delivery as the cause of the collapse (8 for 29) that England in the last decade would have been proud of.