Pakistan vs England – 2nd Test – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 a modest 145
England showed intent to bowl out Pakistan on 214 with spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imtiaz-Sheikh-c64290 Zayed Stadium,
Abu Dhabi, January 28, 2012.
The bleak morning again favoured the hosts as promising Men In Green duo of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asad-Shafiq-c46208 resumed proceedings from their overnight score of 46 and 35 respectively.
The pair was again solid, playing a few elegant strokes in between their usual defensive offerings. Ali brought up his half-century while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465 to show resilience.
However, the scoring rate did not pose any major threat to the Poms bowling line up, as both spinners got the ball to turn and bounce. That first accounted for Shafiq as his tentative defensive lunge of a spinning ball got slip into play where http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705
made no mistake.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adnan-Akmal-c42042 came to the crease and looked to improvise through some unorthodox shots, including a few paddle shots and an unsuccessful try for a reverse sweep.
With new ball now due, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 quickly took it and got immediate results with Anderson picking up the half-centurion Ali with a delivery that rose substantially after pitching, taking a slight edge of the bat to fall behind the stumps.
It also than accounted for an impatient Adnan, flashing hard at a wide delivery off Broad, which travelled quickly to the first slip fielder, where Strauss duly obliged.
With the lead just crossing the hundred-run mark, the Men in Green had lost all recognized batsmen, leaving to the tail to add a few more runs, while coming up against a daunting English line up.
To their credit, they hung around to end the first session at 198 for 7, but resumption saw the spinners turning on their magic with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Dermott-Monteith-c65601 grabbed the final two as the tourists were set an highly achievable
145 to win the match and consequently, to level the series.
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