Cricket Update: England vs. Pakistan 4th npower Test, Lord's, 4th day- Pakistan collapse to massive defeat amid match-fixing scandal
England are on the verge of axing an underdog Pakistan side, who once again put on a pathetic display of cricket on the third day of the final n power test match at Lord’s.
The hosts capitalized on the ground right from the start of day’s play and kept dominating the minnows till the very last ball bowled. Resuming on 346/7, both the inform batsmen Trott and Stuart Broad continued troubling Pakistani bowlers in the same fashion as they did yesterday. Having already added 244 runs for eight wicket partnership, the duo added three more to become England’s highest eight wicket partnership breaker. Broad scored glorious cover drives and then straight down the ground to become the highest runs scorer ever in the history of the game to have come in at number 9 and do the damage. Both the set batsmen kept on breaking record after record and achieved the milestone to become the highest runs getter for England for 8th wicket partnership, breaking the previous of 267 by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-c60529 Thorpe and Micheal Vaughan at Old Trafford in 2001.
Trott and Broad batted to perfection throughout their innings, putting the bad deliveries away to the fence and defending the good ones neatly. Both continued their monumental efforts and achieved the highest peak of the day, when Broad sliced a sensational cover drive off Wahab Riaz to the mid wicket cordon for four, surpassing the record stand of 313 runs set up by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 at Sheikhupurra in 1996. England were eyeing for a marvellous double century by Broad, who went pass his father’s highest test total of 162 runs, but their hopes could not last longer when he was given out off Saeed Ajmal on a review.
Once Broad got out, the momentum of innings for Jonathan Trott and surely England was certainly lost. Ajmal and Wahab Riaz quickly wrapped up the remaining tail, but not before England managed to get a mammoth total of 446 on the board. Trott, whose timings and placement remained of exceptional quality, played one of the finest innings at Lord’s cricket ground which would not be forgotten for a long period of time. Everything seemed to England’s way, even with the ball, Pakistani batting line once again collapsed and failed to make a ruthless aggression with the bat.
A miserable, weak Pakistan batting disappointed many with poor strokes play and shot selection, as wickets fell at regular intervals for them, one after the other, with none of their player able to withstand English bowlers. If it was the fear of playing against a world record or mere pressure, but Pakistani backbone with the bat was broken once their skipper Salman Butt and most experience campaigner in the side, Muhammad Yousaf was back to the pavilion.
Young Azhar Ali and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal tried showing some resistance to England bowlers but the impact was not long lasting as both were dealt with similar treatment like those before. The tail was wrapped up relatively quickly, by the hostile and agile bowling by four men attack, with Graeme Swann being pick of bowlers grasping four for 12 in just 8 overs that he bowled, followed by 6’7 Steven Finn who got rid of three. Pakistan, who got out for just 74 on the board as their first innings total against massive 446 by England were forced to follow on and bat in their second innings.
One would have expected to see a better and sensible playing Pakistan team for the second time in the day but, circumstance did not change at all and become rather wretched. Imran Farhat got out early on in the innings, followed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s hope of scoring well in the test, with both getting out and leaving a desperate Pakistani side at 41-4 when the day’s play ended.
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