Second day was the turning point against Zimbabwe, says Mohammad Hafeez - Cricket News Update
Pakistan were made to strive by the Zimbabwean right-handed batsman Tinotenda Mbiri Kanayi Mawoyo, who played an exceptional knock in the first innings of the first Test match against Pakistan and carried his bat through the innings making a highest score
of 163 amongst his side and facilitating Zimbabwe to reach a challenging first innings score of 412 runs all out.
However, it was a hard fought innings by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tino-Mawoyo-c2683 and he struggled at times, especially against the off-spinner Saeed Ajmal.
His knock kept the visitors on the back foot for the initial couple of days but the Skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 was delighted to see the green shirts coming back from that position. "After the way the match started, with them scoring over
400 runs, I thought it was good to see how we came back."
Pakistan leading players praised the bowlers for the team’s Test triumph over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 in their home, Bulawayo. Pakistani bowlers showed a little bit of inexperience in their first innings and let the opposition score a testing first innings total of 412.
However, they made a strong come back and restricted the hosts to just 141 runs in their second innings providing their team a convincing lead, which left their batsmen to chase only 88 runs in their second innings to win the first Test.
Pakistan began their comeback with Hafeez’s blistering knock of 119 runs from the top. The right-handed opening batsman, Mohammad Hafeez, said that it was his own plan to bat assertively against the hosts. He feels that he has some responsibility as a batsman
and he wanted to fulfil that.
"After the first day, the management worked really hard with the youngsters and the way they came out on the morning of the second day was the major turning point," http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Hafeez-c76898, the opening batsman and offspinner said.
"The pressure was on the bowling, much more than the batting, and the hard work from our bowlers really made the difference," he added.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859 and Mohammad
Hafeez.
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