Michael Vaughan mocks Pakistan batting after Lord’s Test collapse

Second division cricket

Pakistan’s Azan Awais geese a bouncer (AP Picture)

Pakistan’s struggles in England have deepened after their batting collapsed for 110 within the first innings of the Lord’s Take a look at, prompting a brutal evaluation from former England captain Michael Vaughan.

Pakistan arrived at Lord’s hoping for a response after being crushed by an innings and 53 runs within the opening Take a look at.

The return of standard captain Babar Azam had additionally offered some optimism, however his comeback did little to vary the guests’ fortunes.Babar managed solely eight runs, whereas Abdullah Shafique (5), Shan Masood (1) and Mohammad Rizwan (7) all fell cheaply.

Opener Azan Awais supplied some resistance with 46, however Pakistan have been bowled out for simply 110.Vaughan was scathing in his evaluation of the Pakistan batting line-up, arguing that England’s bowlers have been working with none actual worry of being punished.

“I will be brutally trustworthy. The England bowlers aren’t being challenged in any respect. And this Pakistan batting lineup is probably the simplest batting lineup I’ve seen in a very long time to bowl to.

And never solely that, I feel as a bowler, I feel they’re all queuing as much as bowl as a result of they know there are wickets on the market,” Vaughan stated on the BBC Take a look at Match Particular.”You are not going to get damage.

There isn’t any batter that is going to harm them. Nobody’s going to wreck their figures, and it is actually, ‘roll up, roll up, who desires to get the wickets?’,” he added.

The previous England skipper continued his criticism by questioning whether or not Pakistan’s present batting unit was even of Take a look at-match normal.

With England’s bowlers repeatedly discovering breakthroughs, Vaughan prompt the guests had made life remarkably straightforward for the hosts.

“I feel all of them know that Pakistan aren’t going to get large scores.

So that you’re solely going to be on the market for 40 to 50 overs, so that you give every thing in each spell, you retain going to Joe Root saying, Err, I am going to bowl one other one.

‘ There are such a lot of wickets on the market,” stated Vaughan.He then made a very harsh comparability, suggesting Pakistan’s batting resembled a second-division county aspect slightly than a global Take a look at crew.

“It is really easy. They’re nonetheless doing a very good job, and so they’re nonetheless wanting very threatening. And I feel this bowling assault, the way in which they’re bowling, will problem higher batting lineups in the event that they proceed on this vogue.

However that is Pakistan batting. Is it second division county cricket? There isn’t any method that they’re batting in any normal to say that, that could be a Take a look at match batting lineup.

He added.Pakistan’s batting woes have been compounded by the absence of opener Imam-ul-Haq, who didn’t bat within the first innings after struggling a calf pressure whereas fielding at Lord’s.

England capitalised on Pakistan’s collapse to take a commanding place within the Take a look at.

The hosts completed the second day on 81/3 of their second innings, extending their general result in 261 runs.After Pakistan’s innings ended inside 38 overs.

England stay firmly in command of the second Take a look at and have put the guests beneath immense strain to supply a turnaround within the the rest of the match.