Might even need to find a place for an eighteen year old

I am glad I stayed out of this!

First inkling was England at 3’s but the more the game moved on I was more convinced Pakistan should have won with England batting   Last. Nearly backed Pakistan at 2.24 but had lingering doubts about them and the wicket.

I just do not know what to say about England…..30/3, 40/4 who are these imposters!

Mike Brearley was heralded as a great Captain but he had some of the best ever playing for him.

Stokes did not have a bunch of World Beaters or England GOATS

This should go down as the most amazing Captaincy certainly in my lifetime. Bitham’s Ashes was really about some amazing individuals who pulled together a series of “ miracles”. These players were mercurial.

What Stokes has done is almost inexplicable. The only caveat being the Pakistan fast bowlers who were missing like Shaheen Shah Afridi

Hats off to Stokes and his TEAM

I think we need to see what happens with that. I think both India and Pakistan were shell shocked. Both have great attacks and I was disappointed with them.

I think they will get found out by hood bowlers and Australia in particular will  be kicking their lips as would SA over a series but what Stokes has done in the immortal words of Paul Merson……. is give his young charges unbelievable belief.

I am not stating I want this attitude defeated but as an aficionado of Test Cricket I want Test Cricket to bite it in the ar*se.

That’s not to say I want to see this brand of cricket defeated but tempered although if they can keep doing it one must be delighted and applaud

Credit where due.

I wouldn't have believed you could have the success they have already achieved with their approach....regardless of any future failings they've already won numerous games that they had no right to and especially with the points system the approach is entirely justified from here on in almost regardless of failures until it reaches any catastrophic point...

having just seen SA's effort at playing old school test cricket (and even some of the Australians -noteable that Head the only run scorer of note has been playing his own bazball in the last 12-18 months and having a lot of success)  I think it's also increasingly clear that many teams simply don't have the batsmen to succeed in challenging conditions these days so there is less to be lost by playing ultra aggressively.... and with the ball and in the field the increased belief of the bowlers and willingness to attack more has paid plenty of dividends to..

Fair go geordie

It has been a breath of fresh air the but is Trst Cricket is now about India, England and Australia and money.

These countries are too greedy to spread the love of the game or the money.

I am not saying I haven’t enjoyed the show just I do not think it is sustainable and they will find a solution to derail it but long May it continue

think the 280 in 50 overs 1st innings of the last test was the best justification. days gone by they'd have poked around for half that number of runs in 50 overs

This is the crux of everything, on the batting side of things.

A frankly unbelievable stat from this series, given who prevailed...

Pakistan batted for more than 207 overs longer than England. Two hundred and seven overs more than us! And they lost 3-0.

It was not just the runs scored, but the number of players that contributed with both bat and ball. Don't forget they were all in sick beds 2 days before the first test, several had played in the 20/20 final (as had Pakistan to be fair) but the new names kept delivering. Brook was the star in the batting department, Leach together with the other slow bowlers did well as of course did Anderson. Stokes is content not to even bowl very often so he can concentrate on captaincy. Who would have thought we could achieve that much without him bowling? Jacks didn't really make any impact and Crawley is still disappointing as an opening batsman but there are plenty more young guns waiting for the chance.