Published: Oct 05, 2015, 10:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 02:31 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of the 1st warm-up fixture of England‘s tour of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in which they are up against the Pakistan ‘A’ team in a two-day affair at the Sharjah Cricket Ground in Sharjah on Monday. Members of the travelling England squad will look to get themselves acclimatised to the conditions as well as the heat ahead of the highly-anticipated three-Test series against the full-strength Pakistan side led by the veteran Misbah-ul-Haq, who has given hints of a possible retirement from the sport after the series should everything go as planned. For the tourists, the management’s eyes will be trained at the performances of Moeen Ali as well as Alex Hales for both the warm-up fixtures in order to finalise the Test opening partner for skipper Alastair Cook. READ: Live Cricket Score Pakistan ‘A’ vs England XI 2015, 1st warm-up match at Sharjah, Day 2
Live cricket score England XI 286/5 | Overs 90 | Batting: Jonny Bairstow 66(112), Adil Rashid 51(81): And England end the day on a dominant note, with Adil Rashid too completing his half-century in 78 deliveries as he completes the 100-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Bairstow, who remains unbeaten on 66 at the end of the day.
Applause from the England dressing room as @AdilRashid03 also gets 50. That’s four now. England 286-5 #PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/5kolPOu58V
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) October 5, 2015
Live cricket score England XI 261/5 | Overs 85 | Batting: Jonny Bairstow 56(101), Adil Rashid 36(62): Bairstow and Wood have brought England back to a position of strength, having added 74 runs for the sixth wicket so far with Bairstow completing his half-century, becoming the third England batsman in the innings, in 89 balls.
That’s the third man to 50, this time for @jbairstow21. He’s been moving the ball around fluently. ENG 242-5. pic.twitter.com/bHEPHvJ0PW
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) October 5, 2015
Live cricket score England XI 219/5 | Overs 79 | Batting: Jonny Bairstow 35(63), Adil Rashid 16(33): Bairstow and Wood are rotating the strike well at the moment, mostly dealing in singles with an occasional boundary every now and then. Rashid gets his first boundary of the innings when he smashes Goher over midwicket!
ENG are 218-5, with Bairstow 35* and Rashid 15*. Root retired on 59 too. We’ve got 16 overs left, light permitting. pic.twitter.com/dteD1wklzh
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) October 5, 2015
Live cricket score England XI 183/5 | Overs 67 | Batting: Jonny Bairstow 15(49), Adil Rashid 0(5): Root retires after scoring 59 off 97 balls in order to give Stokes more time to collect runs. Bairstow joins the all-rounder in the middle, and gets off the mark shortly before Stokes is caught by wicketkeeper Adnan Akmal off the bowling Iftikhar Ahmed, getting an edge while trying to push forward. Buttler is dismissed right after getting off the mark when he is trapped leg-before off the bowling of Zafar Goher. OUT! Ben Stokes c Adnan Akmal b Iftikhar Ahmed 6(16), Jos Buttler lbw Zafar Goher 1(3)
HIGHLIGHTS: action from the afternoon session @ShjCricket as England reached 143-3 vs Pakistan A #PAKvENG https://t.co/Rqvsay7QyG
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) October 5, 2015
Live cricket score England XI 167/3 | Overs 61.3 | Batting: Joe Root 58(96), Jonny Bairstow 7(38): While Joe Root took no time in get going against the second tier Pakistan side, Bairtsow is struggling. He has just scored his first run for eight overs with a paddle sweep, he has managed just eight runs from 38 deliveries with no boundaries scored yet.
Live cricket score England XI 150/3 | Overs 57 | Batting: Joe Root 50(84), Jonny Bairstow 6(32): Play resumes at Sharjah, with 150 Up for the english side and a superb half-century for Joe Root, with Bairstow playing the second fiddle here. Root has hit five boundaries in his 84-ball 50 and looks untroubled thereby frustrating the young Pakistan’s attack.
Live cricket score England XI 143/3 | Overs 55 | Batting: Joe Root 13(35), Jonny Bairstow 6(22): At tea, England look stable with Joe Root looking good, already scored 36 from 72 deliveries which includes three fours. Meanwhile, new batsman Jonny Bairstow has taken six singles, facing 26 balls. The visitors have added another 30 runs since the dismissal of skipper Alastair Cook in the 44th over.
Live cricket score England XI 116/3 | Overs 45 | Batting: Joe Root 13(35): Alastair Cook is dismissed to an excellent catch round the corner from Fawad at leg slip off Zafar in the 44th over. A second wicket for the 20-year-old. Cook had moved to a half-century with a four, however did not last long, he could add just three runs more, leaving England at 113 for 3. Jonny Bairstow is the new batsman in. OUT! Alastair Cook c Fawad Alam b Zafar Gohar 53(130)
Live cricket score England XI 97/2 | Batting: Alastair Cook 46(118): After three lives, Bell finally departs for 19. He is given LBW to Zafar, walks off not happy with that decision. Joe Root has joined his skipper, who still looks untroubled having faced 118 deliveries, out in the middle. OUT! Ian Bell LBW Zafar Gohar 19(58)
Live cricket score England XI 80/1 | Batting: Alastair Cook 41(103), Ian Bell 16(38): Match resumes after lunch and Ian Bell recieves another life, he has been dropped for the third time. This time he was dropped by the first slip when he was on just six runs as the ball went between the fielder and the wicketkeeper, Adnan Akmal.
Live cricket score England XI 69/1 | Batting: Alastair Cook (37), Ian Bell (6): Lunch at Sharjah, the visitors look untroubled as skipper looks good at the moment. Ian Bell was dropped on 5 by keeper Adnan, off the left arm spin of Zafar and if he gets going, the dropped catch can be a turning point for Paksitan A.
Live cricket score England XI 52/1 | Batting: Alastair Cook (27), Ian Bell (2): A four from skipper Cook and that brings up ENgland’s fifty. with Cook looking good at 22 and Bell still settling down.
Live cricket score England XI 46/1 | Overs 18 | Batting: Alastair Cook 20(59): Zia-ul-Haq strikes for Pakistan A, removes opener Moeen Ali in the 18th over. A top edge from him that goes into the safe hands of Ehsan Adil. Escellent start for the young Pakistan side. Ian Bell joins skipper Cook at the crease. Ali’s 46-ball 22 included two fours. OUT! Moen Ali c Ehsan Adil b Zia-ul-Haq 22(46)
Live cricket score England XI 27/0 | Overs 9 | Batting: Moeen Ali 10(20), Alastair Cook 16(35) | Both the English openers have made a steady start. Both of them are looking to take their time and get into the groove before looking to take the attack to the Pakistan A bowlers.
TOSS UPDATE: England won the toss and elected to bat
Among the other players who will look to get back into shape in the longer format will be James Taylor and Samit Patel, both of whom haven’t played a Test for the last three years or so. Taylor, who was in fantastic form with the bat during the recent five-match One-Day International (ODI) series against Australia towards the end of the summer, will now look to seal his spot in the Test side with the selection.
Pakistan A will be led by pacer Junaid Khan, who has not been selected for the Tests and will aim to impress the selectors in the warm-ups in order to get a place in the limited-overs squads. While most of the ‘A’ squad comprises of youngsters who are on the fringes of selection for the most part, Fawad Alam will look to make the most of the practice matches in order to prepare himself mentally for the Test series, for which he was selected and now has to repay the selectors’ faith.
Squads:
Pakistan ‘A’: Sami Aslam, Khurram Manzoor, Fawad Alam, Umar Amin, Ali Asad, Iftikhar Ahmed, Usman Salahuddin, Adnan Akmal (wk), Mohammad Asghar, Zafar Gohar, Junaid Khan (c), Ehsan Adil, Zia-ul-Haq, Mir Hamza.
England: Alastair Cook (c), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler (wk), Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, Mark Wood.
