LIVE – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 in deep trouble – Match Update
Bangladesh have lost half their side against Pakistan on day one of the first Test at the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zahur-Ahmed-c98518 Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong in Bangladesh on Friday, December 9, 2011.
The hosts have been struggling throughout the series with the bat and continued the trend in the first Test of the two match series.
Pakistan’s skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 won the toss today and opted to field first. He expected the seamers to get some help from the pitch, as it had some moisture underneath.
The decision was spot on, as pacers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aizaz-Cheema-c961 took early wickets to dismantle the home side.
Bangladesh’s opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tamim-Iqbal-c2640 was the first man to be dismissed in the day after scoring just nine runs. He was unable to make an impression in the limited-over leg and continued his miserable run with the bat today.
Just a couple of runs later, first-drop http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Younis-Khan-c98325, who has got the safest hands in the team.
Veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Ashraful-c76740 was the next Bengali batsman to be dismissed. He was not a part of the team in the limited-over format, but was recalled for the Test series.
However, the middle-order batsman was unable to make an impression in his first outing and was caught behind off the bowling of Gul.
The fall of three quick wickets brought the home team’s skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mushfiqur-Rahim-c2045 at the crease. He came in at a time when the pacers were taken out of the attack and spin had been introduced.
This would have been a sigh of relief for the Bengali captain, as the seamers got the ball to move both in the air and off the wicket.
However, Rahim only managed four runs in his short stay at the crease before getting trapped plumb in front of the stumps off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859.
Things continued to worsen for the home team, as their most dependable batsman Shakib-Al-Hasan was sent back to the pavilion moments before the lunch break. He gave a simple catch to square-leg fielder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Hafeez-c76898 after adding eight runs to the total
and the team was 47/5.
Cheema was the pick of the bowlers in the day, as he took the first two wickets in the morning.
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