A day that started off brightly for Pakistan ended up being a horrific one by the end of it!
The bowlers once again made the efforts and didnt disappoint, Asif in particular making up for yesterday's pretty ordinary performance into a meaningful one this morning with a 5fer to his name. Gul picking up the last one to get 1 under his name too with Aamer having 3.
Batting as always was going to be an issue for Pakistan, especially in the seaming and overcast conditions at Trent Bridge and Anderson who is quite good there exploited the conditions perfectly picking up a 5fer on his 28th birthday what a good birthday present Pakistan gave!
Pakistan are always quite generous and after making part timers like North and Watson of Australia into some regular bowlers, they made Finn look like a top one too who picked up 3 wickets for 4 runs at one point.
Salman Butt looked edgy from the start not the one we witnessed against Australia for sure as here he looked out of sorts and could'nt negotiate the swing of Anderson and the same goes for Farhat who battled out there for a 51 ball 19 before getting a good one from Anderson that shattered his stumps.
Well, I can go on and write about other dismissals too but its all that everyone's seen/heard so I'd leave it to that!
In the end just to add, Pakistan traling by 207 runs still at 147/9 and with 1 wicket left of their 1st innings, England will surely look to enforce the follow on in the morning and look to end the game itself on Day 3. Pakistan on the other hand can hope for bad weather, rain or whatever as its going to be an uphill task from here on trying to bat out for 1 day let alone the 3 days remaining in the game!