Pakistan V England - 2nd Test - Abu dhabi - 25-29 Jan 2012

Salam everyone

Less than 6 hours before the start of second test.

Pakistan already lead 1-0 and will try to seal the series while England will try to bounce back and keep the series alive.

Tremlete is out cos of injury and England may well be tempted to go with two spinners.

For Pakistan, Cheema will have a fitness test, if failed, junaid or whab might get the nod.

there are rumours about inclusion of umer akmal in place of asad shafiq as well

Pitch is expected to be a belter with bit of movment for fast bowlers on day 1

Pak won the toss and elected to bat first

9/0

One change in both teams

Junaid replaces Cheema
Monty replaces Treml

Pak 18/0

Pak 24/0

Hafeez 7
Taufeeq 11

Pak 29/0

41/0

End of first hour

Taufeeq left a straighter one and is bowled facepalm

Pak 52/1

Hafeez 28
Azhar 1

Pak 58/1

Hafeez 31
Azhar 4

Not looking good for Pakistan. Azhar Ali is struggling to pick the variations in spin from both Panesar and Swann

23.1 Now Hafeez gets an outside edge

23.2 dropped

23.3 bowled

Both openers are gone

61/2

Pakistan in big trouble

England will struggle to score on this pitch, its already spinning on day1

Younis and Misbah will be the key

25.3 Younis off the mark

Pak 63/2

Anything above 300 will be a good score

Out of the 8 times that Misbah has won the toss in tests, this is only the 2nd time that he has decided to bat

65/2

Younis 2
Azhar 10

Lunch -Day 1

Pak 73/2

Azhar Ali 13
Younis 6

lovely straight drives from Younis and Azhar

Pak 92/2

Younis 19
Azhar 19

Younis misses a straight ball on off. Bowled!

Pak 98/2

Younis 24
Azhar 20

Now then. Pak 3 down before 100 runs are up. Haven't been in this position for a while

300 from now will be a mission

All batsmen gone to straight balls


Big wicket for England

Pak 98/3

Well pointed out.. Lets hope Misbah who has the cleanest of minds does well today

103/3

Azhar 24
Misbah 1

Another bowled

Poor shot by Azhar

103/4

Big test for Shafiq