‘Calibration’ is a lovely and appropriate word to use.

Occasionally overshooting is a better way of finding the sweet spot than perpetually undershooting, we’d say.

I suspect it is as hard to find a pub in Karachi as it is to find an honest politician in the current UK Government, DC, but I get your point.

Picking up on Bert’s point slightly differently, I do feel that England somewhat “got away with a win” in Multan – mostly by bowling their way out of trouble…just. The England batting, in both but especially the second innings, was beyond “positive” on my dial, registering “reckless” at times. The two runouts and the last five wicket collapse being the worst offending parts.

This is more a calibration point than a “grumpy old man who prefers defensive batting” point. I applaud the positive, exciting, fearless approach. But fearlessness should mean that attack is your primary thought, not your only thought. More varied bowling attacks and more helpful pitches will undo recklessness.

But still we should celebrate these superb wins for England. It is unprecedented for a team to visit Pakistan and boss a series like this. It might not be a strong Pakistan team, but if England had played “normally”, we’d probably have been looking at 0-0 with one to play after Multan.

Stop giving them ideas. Don’t you want a few tests to have win/loss results? Given every team management visits this site regularly, I am afraid Karachi now will be a low scoring draw.

But then again given this is Pakistan, they might just read that last sentence of yours and choose to employ Abrar in a pub in Karachi instead, supporting the bouncers. And the proceed to win the match.

Looking at the performances in the first two tests, I feel that Pakistan didn’t use their quick bowlers sufficiently. England might be extremely vulnerable to some short-pitched stuff. Not that the spin option should be neglected of course. They might do well to target England with short bowling from one end, backed up with spin from the other.

Abrar should be used to support the bouncers.

I have just read this bit of the thread to Daisy.

She rolled her eyes.

I told her I had a vague notion of a response to include the words “nickers” and “slippers”.

She rolled her eyes again, more rigorously the second time.

Daisy rolling her eyes is not a good sign.

And now I have to apologise for the typo as well.

I always seem to struggle when talking about clothing in the context of the subcontinent.

Sari seems to be the hardest word….

…once again, I apologise and have tendered another resignation.

If the rarest result occurs more than once it could be a case of Arbra and Pant ties……

….I apologise for the above and have tendered my resignation to the board.

‘The batsman’s Pant, the bowler’s a bra.’

Time for dear old Aggers to be put out to pasture, methinks

Which makes me wonder, maybe it’s all the creases from doing this that makes it such a Bunsen in the first place. You can’t ever get it to go completely flat, there’s bound to be some ridges in it.