Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
Doesn’t matter what the Pakistan score was at the same time,stay on the required rate and don’t rely on needing a slog at the end.

923.......it’s not rocket science,you can see yourself falling miles off the rate as the overs go by!

I just think it was dozy in the extreme.

By the way,as a Yorkshireman I love Root.
Have another look we wern't 'miles off the rate' when Root was out.. 100 off the last 11 overs with wickets in hand is par these days. Wouldn't have needed that many if Woakes & Archer hadn't bowled dross. Pakistani 8,9,10 had strike rates of 200,200,250. That is why we lost.