Pakistan resume batting second day on 42-0
DUBAI: Openers Mohammad Hafeez and Taufiq Umar resumed Pakistan’s first innings at the overnight total of 42 without being separated here on second day of the opening Test against England at the...
January 18, 2012
Hafeez and Taufiq were batting on 22 and 18, respectively as Pakistan trail by 150 runs with all ten wickets intact.
England were all out for 192 in their first innings yesterday when Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal took a career-best seven wicket haul on the opening day.
The 34-year-old, whose claims of a mystery delivery surrounded the lead-up
to the three-Test series, had figures of 7-55.
Ajmal, whose previous best of 6-42 came against the West Indies at Guyana last year, bowled with variety, unleashing a straight delivery bowled with a round-arm action which kept low, seemingly his mystery one that he named 'teesra' (the third one).
His superb bowling kept rival batsmen guessing and destroyed England's hopes of a sound start.
Only wicket-keeper batsman Matt Prior batted with defiance, scoring a brilliant 70 not out for his 19th half-century. This was England's lowest total in the last ten Tests since Australia bowled them out for 123 at Perth in 2010.
