Cook shined, Pakistani brigade "reversed" at the end of the day.

Cook saves himself, rest were cooked by Pakistan bowling brigade!

Day 3 at The Oval, started with overcast great bowling start was on the cards, Pakistani seamers were tipped to rip through England's line up but Cook stood up to the occasion to save his position broke down his low scoring shackles his career was on the verge, he hasn't been scoring much all season he was under high scrutiny he just scored as low as 106 runs in eight innings this season. He started off his innings with a brilliant boundary which he picked on the full and then started his delicious menu of brilliant batting indeed then came the trail of stylish and elegant strokes in no time he reached to 97 and he reached to his century of the season in a very unusual style which most batsman hasn't been privileged to get so far in Test cricket history, he blocked the ball back to Muhammad Asif who then hurled it over the batsman and keeper for four. Cook removed his helmet, smiled, raised his arms and stood up like a champion Cook added 116 runs with Trott for third wicket, his magnificent innings came to end when he was caught down the leg side by Kamran Akmal. Wahab riaz gave a sigh of relief to Pakistan till then it seemed like Pakistan will put up a huge score to chase down. Cook and Trott dominated and kept England's chance high and bright till Tea with England 194/3

Cook back in the camp with 110 runs to his name, Trott struggling hard for his 36 and Pietersen looking dangerous with 23 chicky runs.

After Tea, it was exactly four years ago to the day when the ball tempering incident at The Oval happened when Pakistan didn't take the field after being accused of ball tampering. It seemed like Pakistan sipped RedBull mixed Tea, which brought out something in them which non of us even thought of at Tea. Ajmal was getting the ball spun and Amir got the ball reserve as good as his mentor Wasim Akram.

Ajmal removed Pietersen on the very last bowl of the first over after Tea, it was a great piece of off spin bowling, tossed up loopy on off stump a tempting delivery to drive unfortunately there was a huge gap between bat and pad and Ajmal ripped through and Collapse begin next to fall was Trott in the very next over by Muhammad Amir a very wide ball a loose drive and caught in the gully brilliantly by Azhar Ali, Trott had been very patient his 36 runs came from 130balls in 3 and a half hours. Muhammad Amir was on the on song ball was reversing and he was following the footsteps of his mentor the legend "Wasim Akram", Collingwood at 3 runs edged one to Kamran Akmal on a quite wide of off. Kamran collected it cleanly which has been a very plus plus point for Pakistan in this test match. In the very next over Ajmal bowled Morgan for 5 runs landing on the off stump zipped through a big gap between bat and pad directly to the stumps. First Innings highest run getter Matt Prior didn't even took long to join rest of his team mates in the hut, he nicked one to Kamran at 5 runs what a bowl it was by Amir, brought us the memories of Wasim Akram ball lands one on off stump from round the wicket and gets a ball to kink away very late at the last moment towards the slips and Kamran pouched it! 

Swann must be feeling butterflies in his stomach after looking at the amount of spin, he was clean bowled by Ajmal, it was touch short and spun back quickly he tried to cut and ball crashed into the middle stump soon enough before he could get a bat on to it. England lost their 6 wickets for as low as 28runs, they are at 221/9 before play called off to bad light at Day 3 with England leading with 146 runs with 1 wicket remaining.

Pakistan came in late Ajmal and Amir destroyed England in no time. Pakistan is back in game hoping to win this one cleanly. Bad light was good for Pakistan, they can take the last wicket tomorrow morning and start their reply to win the test. If they batted now, they would have lost wickets before end of day with tricky batting conditions.