England retain winning formula for second Pakistan Test
England will take an unchanged squad into their second Test of the series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755, after inflicting a 354-run thumping on the tourists at Trent Bridge.
Tim Bresnan, who was added to the squad to replace the injured http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867 teammate, with ECB national selector Geoff Miller saying: “We would like to see how Ajmal gets through this four-day match [for Yorkshire in the County Championship] given the recent ankle injury that saw his withdrawal from the first Test squad.
“Clearly we were delighted with the performance in the first npower Test but the key to consistency is building on that success throughout the rest of the series. We saw a number of outstanding performances at Trent Bridge not only with bat and ball but also in the field and the challenge is to maintain those standards over the next three Test matches,” Miller said.
James Anderson and Eoin Morgan are certainly two who will be looking to bring their game-changing form with them to Edgbaston, after the former excelled in swing-friendly conditions to finish with 11 wickets for the match and the latter reached his maiden Test century as part of a pivotal first innings partnership with Paul Collingwood in Nottingham.
Indeed, after the first Test, the player who will surely be under the most pressure to perform in this match is Kevin Pietersen, who with scores of nine and 22 at Trent Bridge, stretched his lean patch of form for another match.
While England will likely take an unchanged line-up into the next match – it’s hard to see Bresnan breaking into what proved to be a formidable pace line-up of Anderson, Stuart Broad and the young Steven Finn in the series opener – Pakistan are set to ring in the changes as they seek to find a winning formula against the home side.
To that end, former captain Mohammad Yousuf has been given a call-up for the remainder of the series as Pakistan look to bolster their fragile batting line-up, while spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Raza-Hasan-c84407 after taking just one wicket and conceding 171 runs in Nottingham.
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