In giving up two runs and six hits over six innings, Pelfrey was buoyed by David Wright's home run and Ruben Tejada's tricky scoring slide on Jose Reyes's sacrifice fly.
England's struggles to tee-off hinted at a pitch that was becoming increasingly tricky to score on, a theory that looked less sound when Pakistan's openers, Sharjeel and Khalid, emerged in a blizzard of boundaries that brought 74 runs from their first six overs, with 14 fours and one six.
He's got enough pace, he's tricky and can score so he gives us utility across the midfield.
There's a beautiful, eroticised Apollo from Christopher Ainslie, and conductor Richard Farnes eloquently probes the score's tricky amalgam of tortured chromaticism and gamelan-based exoticism.
The higher the score, the trickier the routine - and if nothing goes wrong, the gymnast with the hardest routine wins.
Credit scoring is tricky in many emerging regions since a large proportion of people don't own bank accounts or use them regularly.
While the bout was tricky in terms of scoring, the lop-sided scorecards of two of the judges betrayed just how competitive the bout had been - indeed, it was a genuine contender for fight of the year, with Bellew playing his part in the proceedings.
This though was always going to be a tricky pitch on which to score but one where a batsman could feel reasonably comfortable on the back foot.
In the two-wide corridor, continue to leave the balls spaces 3 wide to be in - a 2x2 space is possible, and results in a higher score, but is tricky, and not really essential.
