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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Pakistan trying hard to bring back "Test" legacy!
Pakistan "nervy" winners. From being down and out and completely written off to win score a Win against Mighty England Lions but these boys have turned around the cards showed a lot of character helped themselves out and at the end of the day came out as Winners securing a 4 wicket win against England and upgraded themselves into the series with 2-1 equation and leaving themselves with a very positive chance to square the series 2-2 against England. Pakistan have kept the series alive but not without tensed moments, which most of the Pakistani fans around the world weren't hoping for but Umar Akmal and Hero of the Match, youngest to take 5 wicket haul in england, Muhammad Amir see off the rest of 16 runs and carried Pakistan over the line. During a tensed filled afternoon session James Anderson and Graeme Swann came out with an outstanding bowling and game plan which was missing in England's outfit from the start of Pakistan chasing effort, they wasted the new bowl only manage to grab Yasir Hameed's wicket in the very first over after that they went flat and straight as good as they were bowling at Gaddafi with very odd fielding positions by Strauss which gave Pakistan an easy breather to nudge singles and build up their innings with Farhat and Butt on the crease. At lunch Pakistan just needed 33 runs with 7 wickets in hand wobble started when Azhar Ali got himself run out on a very obvious no-run situation, pressure came on MoYo he was undone by a brilliant yorker produced by Anderson in very next over Kamran Akmal was given lbw to Swann, England was pumped up crowd was at their back, every bowl was being cheered massively, 16 were needed at that point then five consecutive maidens halted the wickets falling extravaganza very wise plan by Umar and Amir after that it just took 2 strokes to ease down the situation and bring back Pakistan into the game, Amir collected a short ball on waist height and lofted for a four in very next over Umar gave a good treatment to Anderson passed a bowl for a boundary then it was quite a easy notation for Pakistan to see themselves off towards a genuine well fought Victory.
Farhat led the chase with an aggressive innings which immediately put the bowlers on the back foot. He twice upper-cut the quicks over the slips and also threw Swann's third ball just over the head of mid-on. It was a planned gamble, but ensured Pakistan made rapid inroads into the small target. Farhat's positive attitude almost went too far he fell moments later against Swann when he went for an expensive sweep and was plumb lbw. It left the innings in Salman Butt's charge and the Pakistan captain played his best hand of the series with a calm, mature approach.
He has been an impressive leader throughout the series, but scores of 1, 8, 7, 0 and 17 were adding the pressure of a challenging role. This time, though, he put those problems behind him and became increasingly fluent as the target came into view. He took three boundaries off an over from Broad who persisted with bowling outside off stump which fed Butt's cut shot. He took the target below 50 before edging Swann to slip and he will have known in the back of his mind that the job wasn't finished. While Yousuf remained in the middle it was all under control for Pakistan but, in similar style to their victory against Australia at Headingley, the final push for victory proved the hardest. Again, though, a young side dug deep and it sets up a mouth-watering finale at Lord's next week.
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