|
 Batsmen from both sides refused to let up on the flat track as the game settled into a monotonous rhythm on the fourth day of the second Test at Faisalabad.
Some good contributions from the lower order helped India gain a slender lead before Pakistan responded confidently, moving to 152 for 1 at stumps.
Barring the first hour, when Mahendra Singh Dhoni thumped 33 off 29, the day had a certain predictability about it. Irfan Pathan, fell just ten runs short of his maiden century, and he calmly guided the tail before the last four batsmen scored 74 to edge India ahead. It would have required a collapse of sorts for Pakistan to lose the plot but Younis Khan and Kamran Akmal, opening for the first timein a Test, piloted them to safety with a cheery 100-run stand. Pakistan were 137 ahead at the end of the day but by then the game had entered a point of no return. We are surely now looking at a very boring day 5 of this match, unless pakistan decide to make it interesting by declaring and setting India a relitively small target to chase. This is however extremely unlikely.
|
Home 
News 
