England vs Pakistan
Location: Manchester, Old Trafford
Date: Thursday 27st July - Monday 31st July 2006
Timings
GMT : 11:00
EST : 6:00
PST : 16:00
BST:12:00
England Squad
1.AJ Strauss](http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvpak/content/player/20387.html) (captain) 2.IR Bell 3.PD Collingwood 4.AN Cook 5.JWM Dalrymple 6.SJ Harmison 7.MJ Hoggard 8.GO Jones (wicket-keeper) 9.J Lewis 10.SI Mahmood 11.MS Panesar 12.KP Pietersen 13.LE Plunkett 14.ME Trescothick
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Cheetah Jee
Adhaa squad Pakistan mein hai, adhaa injured hai. Baqee tinkay aap khud hee ikhattay kar lein. 
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
Thursday ka “S” bhee missing hay
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
Waisay to "Timing" bhee mis-spelled hay, lekin mai kuchh nahi boloon gaa :CareBear:
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
Or 27th ko 27st likha hay. Aise bhi kya jaldi pyaray. :)
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Cheetah Jee, aap bay-fikar rahein, mein aapkay saath saath hoon. Har ghadi, har lamha, har qadam, har mausam…
Manhoos maaron, dosron ki ghaltiyaan nikaalni band karo ab. Khud pay museebat toot paray to phir hamein yaad karna.
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
^^ Location: Manchester, Old trafford
**Trafford ka “T” bhi capital nahi hai:naraz: **
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
PST : 16:00 bhee kaafi confusing hai. Yeh kahan ka time hai mere bhai? 
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
Zaalimon, mein to kehta hoon, us becharay masoom ko garaibaan sey pakar kar rassion sey baandh kay zibah hee kar daalo aaj kay aaj. Na hogi chuRail na ghar aayegaa uska khawand (na rahay gaa baans na bajay gee baansRee).
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
Array Dhobi Bhaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii … 
yeh muhaawray ka kahan ka version sunaya hai aap nay ?
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
Dhobi Bhai exclusive. :biggthumb
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Sattiam Shivam Sundaram 
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
so much mistakes in one little brain
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
See if you only you had let me open the thread toh yeh phada na hota.
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
Plunkett is outta of England squad as he injured himself.
Shoaib, Rana, Asif have a good chance at making 4th test, all of them, i think.
Imran Farhat and Butt will open for sure in 2nd test, and Moh'd Sami and Umar Gul are likely to be main bowlers once again.
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^
anyone by Sami!!! 
Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
^ but* Sami
I dont know, lets give him a chance to prove himself, one test isn't enuff to prove ur worth.
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Re: 2nd Test, England vs Pakistan, 27th-31st July
Pitch to have the final say - Woolmer](http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvpak/content/current/story/254390.html)
Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, has said that they will decide on their team for the second Test at Old Trafford only after taking a good look at the pitch. He also felt that the pitch could assist the seamers, meaning that Mushtaq Ahmed, the legspinner, might not play.
“We will take a look at the Old Trafford pitch before we decide which team to play,” Woolmer told Dawn. “There has been speculation about Mushtaq Ahmed and other players and we are keeping all our options open since we don’t have a master blaster in our ranks.”
Woolmer was happy with the performance of the opening batsmen after the tour match at Northampton and said that Pakistan could go in with the same combination. Salman Butt and Imran Farhat scored half-centuries and guided the Pakistanis to a win.
“The openers have come under a lot of scrutiny,” said Woolmer, "and if the truth be known they are young and still learning. But they are both good players and before the second innings at Northampton we asked them to show their mettle and they responded.
“They are likely to open at Old Trafford unless we go for a different formation in which case we might open with Kamran Akmal. I personally do not favour change for change’s sake. We might, however, consider a change for tactical reasons, again depending on the pitch.”
The fast bowlers too have performed creditably, felt Woolmer, despite injuries to Shoaib Akhtar and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan. “[Mohammad] Sami needs more confidence and [Umar] Gul bowled some good spells at Lord’s. If Sami could reproduce more often the ball he dismissed [Alastair] Cook with, he would be sensational.”
Shoaib, recovering from an ankle injury, is expected to return for the third Test at Headingley starting August 4, but Woolmer cautioned against rushing him into the final eleven in haste.
“Shoaib’s appearance in the third Test would be the first prize,” said Woolmer. “The third Test will be pushing it, though, because a stress fracture requires time to heal. We are doing something called loading, which means providing blood to the area of the stress fracture so that it can heal as quickly as possible. We can’t overdo it. In ten days we’ll know if he can start bowling.”
