Twitter Reactions: Spinners give a dramatic finish to Pakistan v England 1st Test

Twitter Reactions: Spinners give a dramatic finish to Pakistan v England 1st Test: Cricket is a crazy game. The 1st Test between England and Pakistan was written off as a dead contest. The pitch was blamed for being too flat. Until the 4th day, not even the 1st innings was over.

There was an exciting day waiting for the cricket fans but, just when we thought that the 5th day’s play would just be a formality. Things changed dramatically and there was a massive turnaround.

Two superb catches from Jimmy Anderson and some exceptional bowling from debutant Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali bundled Pakistan in the 2nd innings. Pakistan went from formidable in the 1st innings and fragile in the 2nd innings. There was a gutsy chase waiting for England. They required just 99 runs from 20 overs with a required rate just around 5, which is pretty ordinary as per the limited overs standards today.

The chase, however, was unpredictable and tricky because of two factors; the pitch had begun to turn and did not look like the flat batting track it was for the last 4 days and more importantly the fading light. And, as expected, bad light halted the exciting final day of the Test match which was a dead rubber until yesterday.

Unfortunately, England fell 25 runs short from pulling off one of the most famous victories of this highly mutable game. Though the Test ended in an entertaining manner.

Here are the best tweets:

England draw first Test with Pakistan, falling just 25 runs short after bad light stopped play. Fabulous effort. pic.twitter.com/P6sOFU1QIG

— England Cricket (@englandcricket) October 17, 2015

Adil Rashid – Smart Player
Joe Root – Colourful Player
S Malik – Outstanding Player
A Cook – Man of the Match pic.twitter.com/uDJba2IxCU

— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) October 17, 2015

Alastair Cook awarded the man-of-the-match award for his epic first innings 263 #PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/tFozN69JNg

— The Cricketer (@TheCricketerMag) October 17, 2015

Summary of 1st Test:

Day-1 : Test
Day-2 : Test
Day-3 : Test
Day-4 : Test
Day-5 : 1st session (Test) , 2nd Session (ODI), 3rd Session (T20)

— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) October 17, 2015

Test Cricket – A brilliant sport. pic.twitter.com/jAeXNIeObB

— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) October 17, 2015

Funny we were the big fat unbeatable Test team till 4 days & today we are being labeled as pathetic. Kya baat hai!!!! #PakvEng

— Sawera Pasha (@sawerapasha) October 17, 2015

Misbah: "Dubai has been a good hunting ground, so we'll try and do well there." #PAKvENG

— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) October 17, 2015

Alastair Cook: "Brilliant from Rashid – the criticism he got after the first innings was unfair as the pitch was flat." #PAKvENG

— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) October 17, 2015

Moral of the story: Pakistan can pull off the impossible out of the most unimaginable circumstances whenever they want. #PakvEng

— Sawera Pasha (@sawerapasha) October 17, 2015

https://twitter.com/RamizRaja42/status/655385095478616064

Don't agree with those who are saying ENG should have chased. Are they expecting ENG to chase 99 in 11 ovs? At RR 9.0 in a Test match field?

— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) October 17, 2015

https://twitter.com/RamizRaja42/status/655384164611551233

Cook: "I'm very proud of the lads. There's an odd feel of disappointment in the dressing room." #PAKvENG

— Sport360° (@Sport360) October 17, 2015

https://twitter.com/thecricketcouch/status/655389653772705793

English fans are ruining what's been an epic Test on a batsman's pitch by their whining.

— cricketingview (@cricketingview) October 17, 2015

Misbah-ul-Haq: "I think we made mistakes but we are in a situation where we are not 1-0 down" pic.twitter.com/d6P5SdqVqb

— PTV Sports (@PTVSp0rts) October 17, 2015

Umpire: What's the time?

Misbah: What to say sir..our time is walking bad! pic.twitter.com/nkOOqF8doW

— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) October 17, 2015

Abu Dhabi Test match :
First four days – 1092 for 16
Day five – 276 for 15#Cricket #PakvEng

— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) October 17, 2015

Don't blame the umpires…they've just followed the rules. The problem is with the rules…change them. #PAKvENG

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 17, 2015

https://twitter.com/ManojRoshantha/status/655396281439797248