Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Bangalore test heads for a draw

Once again, Misbah proved to be indomitable for the Indians. Pakistan easily managed to surpass the 57 run mark to avoid follow on. Pakistan went on to make 537 runs. Ishanth Sharma took his first five wicket haul by removing the last four wickets of Pakistan innings. Today's play saw an important world record to be broken by the Indians. They gave away 76 runs as extras beating the previous worst of 71 runs given away by West Indies. Kamran Akmal was dismissed by Harbhajan Singh. Dinesh Karthick did an extremely good job by removing the bails off in just under quarter of a second time gap in which Akmal was out of the batting crease. Yasir Arafat played an important knock of 44 runs before becoming a victim of Ishanth Sharma. Misbah scored at his own will but only in a very slow rate. He played a brillant knock that included 12 boundaries. He was at his best and made full use of the chance provided to him by the Indians Yesterday. Shoaib Akthar and Danish Kaneria budged in without offering much resistance to Ishanth Sharma, thereby completing his first five wicket rout. Eventually Pakistan were all out for 537 nearly 90 runs short of Indians.
Indians began in a steady pace but lost an early wicket in the form of Gambhir. Gautham gambhir failed yet again by making only 3 runs. He was bowled by Shoaib akthar's delivery. Wasim Jaffer fell to a low kept delivery that moved towards the stumps. This happened in the bowling of Yasir Arafat, the manner was very similar to that of the first innings. He made only 17 runs. Sourav Ganguly then steadied the ship along with Dravid. Ganguly made a quickfire 63which included 9 fours and a six. Dravid is still in the crease after scoring 35 runs. Indians are 131 for 2 at the end of day 4. This match is definitely heading towards a tame draw.

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