Pakistan end their first Innings after posting 466 runs – Match Update
Pakistan finished their first innings in the first Test off the three-match Test series against Zimbabwe by posting 466 runs on the board in response to Zimbabwe’s tally of 412 runs. With this, the tourists managed to pull a lead of 54 runs on the hosts.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan began the day’s proceedings with 357 runs on the board for the loss of five wickets. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adnan-Akmal-c42042 to forge a defiant stand against the hosts.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045.
The batsman who had played a knock of 61 runs on the third day looked in for a big innings, as he crafted a handsome partnership of 58 runs with Akmal in the sixth wicket. The duo looked dangerous as they took the sting out of the Zimbabwean bowling attack,
however, in the 121st over the partnership was finally broken when Akmal after playing a knock of 36 runs off 45 deliveries was run-out.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859 was the next man in as he tried to provide Younis with good support while the veteran tried to score runs off the Zimbabwean bowlers. However, in the 143rd over, after having scored 88 runs off 265 deliveries, the batsman lost his
wicket when he was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 had posted 424 runs on the board for the loss of seven wickets.
Later it was Ajmal and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sohail-Khan-c90647 who stood defiant against Zimbabwe; however, the batsmen were restricted from opening their arms to play freely by the hosts as both found it extremely difficult to score runs of the bat.
Nonetheless, they retained their wickets to frustrate the hosts who were desperate to end the Pakistan innings and get a second chance to bat on a wicket suitable for batsmen. When Pakistan had posted 455 runs, they lost the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sohail-c90628 who after scoring
11 runs off 30 deliveries was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CB-Mpofu-c1219.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Junaid-Khan-c77037 then scored six runs before falling to his demise while Ajmal was the last man out who fell after playing an innings of 28 runs off 52 deliveries.
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