England can still win the Test match reckons Stuart Broad – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465, the young English pacer, is optimistic about drawing a favourable result in the first Test match against Pakistan, being played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
The touring English side was bundled out for 192 runs in their first innings on day-one. But the Poms exhibited great fighting spirit and fought their way back into the Test match by restricting Pakistan to 288 for the loss of
seven wickets, especially after a 114-run stand provided by openers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taufeeq-Umar-c92889.
At stumps on day-two, the Men in Green had a healthy lead of 96 runs but despite being on the back foot, Broad is confident that his side is in with a chance.
Referring to England’s fight back against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 are still in a strong position - we're chasing the game a little bit - but you look back to Brisbane, to Trent Bridge last summer, it's going
to be up to a couple of batsmen to score big hundreds. I think the batsmen are excited at putting the wrongs right from the first innings. Someone has an opportunity to score big runs on that wicket.”
The lanky pacer continued, “If we can score 350 to 400 then batting last on that wicket could be quite tricky. That's how you've got to plan. We're quite clear in what we have to do. Someone's going to have to bat big, bat long
- and we have players who can do that. That's the way we'll win this game.”
Pakistan resumed day-two with an overnight score of 42 runs without the loss of any wicket. The Pakistani vanguards successfully batted through the opening session and looked at ease against all English pacers except Broad.
The right-arm speedster brought England their first breakthrough when he produced a gem of an innings to see the back of Taufeeq. Broad struck again 14 runs later and this time it was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Azhar-Ali-c46890, who had to take the long walk back
to the pavilion.
English bowlers didn’t let the pressure fade and kept on taking wickets every now and then. After the dismissal of Hafeez, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 took charge of things. The Pakistani skipper was playing nicely but he got out just an over
before the close of play, thus giving the opposition a chance to make a comeback in the match.
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