A Sporting Chance? (Part 2.5)
Just as in the football, the same thing keeps happening in the Test series between England and Pakistan. Day 1 was essentially a wash-out, so Day 2 has been the first real opportunity for play to be affected by EMR (electromagnetic radiation).
True to form, we had another morning dominated by the ball and characterised by a quite crazy England collapse from 39-1 to 40-odd for the loss of five wickets mid-session. No further wickets came for some time, again now typical of the pattern emerging. Upon the restart after Lunch, two quick wickets fell – exactly as had been the case in the previous Tests – before Trott and Broad saw out the rest of the afternoon.
How long it takes anyone (other than myself) to realise what’s happening, I have no idea. For now, a wonderful sport is being reduced to a farce, where the ability of players is being rendered virtually obsolete as the artificially-altered atmosphere continues to make a mockery of the scoreboard and distort the pattern of play.
At the time of writing, England are 191-7, having been 102-7. No guesses as to what is likely to unfold this evening.
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