Opening Fielder

This series looks effectively over with two 75% days still to go. Seems like this series has died a rather slow audacious death from an England's fan point of view. However some solace is on hand on the Guardian's online coverage. You have to love this, if Sky don't do it.....

114th over: Pakistan 400-5 (Mohammad Yousuf 168, Kamran Akmal 84) "Look, I don't want to disappoint you guys, but the last time Kamran Akmal played like this was against India last year where he and Razzaq batted for a whole day," says a cheerful M Kashif Ahsan, as Yousuf drives Hoggard off his back foot to the extra-cover boundary. Meanwhile, here's Neil Stork-Brett: "There should be more films about or featuring cricket," he suggests. "How's this for a concept? A bunch of county professionals who are reaching their use by date/end of contract who supplement their income by doing bank jobs in the off-season. You could put them all in WG Grace masks - or better still Sky/Channel 4 commentary team masks. You could call it 'Leg Break'. I can just see one of our anti-heroes in a Geoff Boycott mask letting loose a smoke grenade to make his escape from a bank job and coolly uttering the line 'welcome to the corridor of uncertainty...'. Brilliant, eh? Eh? Oh."

Cricket England Boredom Bank Job Guardian Films