New Zealand v Pakistan 1st Test, Hamilton

and now it is 563 dec by newzealand lol what sorry sight or pak and sadly pak is 125/2 at the end of 2nd day.

shahrukh khan said:

Fleming defies resurgent Pakistan

Pakistan stormed back into the first Test at Hamilton today on the back of some indisciplined batting by the New Zealand middle order and some dogged bowling by Danish Kaneria and Shabbir Ahmed. Stephen Fleming stood resolutely in their way, though, and was unbeaten on 125 as New Zealand ended the first day on 295 for 6.

Stephen Fleming celebrates his sixth Test century





The first two sessions of the day belonged to New Zealand. At lunch, after being asked to bat first, they were 98 for 1. At tea they were 192 for 2. Pakistan were staring down the barrel of a formidable first-innings target to get back into the game, and they pulled it back splendidly. Fleming demonstrated the maturity that comes from playing 77 Test matches to resist them, and his work was far from done at close of play.

Fleming batted in the manner he has long been capable of achieving, posting his century off 195 balls. It was a timely and valuable display that deserved better support from the middle order. But New Zealand were guilty of an over-zealous desire to flog the tiring Pakistan bowlers in the post-tea session, and they paid the price. It was a faulty approach and undid the preparatory work done by Mark Richardson in a 101-run stand with Fleming, and Scott Styris during a third-wicket 100-run stand.

Danish Kaneria, the legspinner, winkled away through 16 overs, bowling the occasionally troubling wrong 'un, and picking up two wickets in identical fashion at a cost of 63 runs. His victims were Styris (33) and Craig McMillan (22), each of whom edged to Taufeeq Umar at first slip after being surprised by the bite and bounce off the pitch. Suddenly, from the comfort of 217 for 2, New Zealand slumped to 249 for 4 - and then 266 for 5.


Mark Richardson played a gutsy innings in the morning, but couldn't convert his start





The runs were coming quickly, though. McMillan danced down the pitch to Kaneria and hit him for two soaring sixes, the second of which cleared the grandstand at the northern end of the ground. But off the next ball, he was gone.

Chris Cairns started tentatively, batting like a man who had not played Test cricket for 21 months, which he hadn't. He hit one boundary in his 11 before Shabbir completed a double by having Cairns edge behind. Then Jacob Oram was bowled around his legs and left staring down the pitch wondering what had happened.

Shabbir was the pick of the Pakistan pace attack, a unit depleted by the withdrawal of Shoaib Akhtar, who failed a fitness test on his injured hamstring before the game. Shabbir kept a tighter line than Mohammad Sami and Umar Gul and ended with 3 for 51. Sami had a horror day while trying to find his rhythm. He conceded 15 no-balls and ended the day with his 19 overs having cost 84 runs

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Hameed shines in the gloom
Close Pakistan 227 for 4 (Hameed 80) trail New Zealand 563 by 336 runs
Pakistan were left in no-man's land when bad light and rain forced an early end on the third day of their first Test against New Zealand at Hamilton. They were still far enough away from the follow-on mark to get into trouble, but New Zealand may not have enough time to force victory.

The highlight of the day was a fine 80 from Yasir Hameed, a consistent thorn in New Zealand's side in the recent one-day series back in Pakistan. But bad light, and light showers, conspired to keep the players off the field for large parts of a day in which the Westpac Park floodlights stayed on for most of the time. Only 38 overs were possible in total.

The lack of play was frustrating for all concerned. By the watery close Pakistan were still 137 runs from the safety of the follow-on with six wickets in hand, while New Zealand, who failed to put as much pressure as they would have wanted on the batsmen, know that one more wicket will get them in among a longish tail.

Pakistan scored 109 runs in the time available, never batting with the freedom that the centurymakers Stephen Fleming and Daniel Vettori had enjoyed, although with the number of loose balls sent down their scoring rate was still respectable. New Zealand did pick up two wickets, those of Hameed and Yousuf Youhana.

Hameed demonstrated just why he has had such a fine start to Test cricket. He came into this game with a Test average of 55.87, and enhanced that with his 80. It seemed inevitable that he was going to score his third century in only his sixth Test, but - having looked unflustered, despite attempts to contain him with a leg trap early in the morning session - he lost his momentum after lunch and was out soon afterwards, when a slower ball from Daryl Tuffey trapped him leg-before.

That leg trap almost accounted for Hameed early on, after which he took some advice from Youhana and took a single to reach the safety of the other end. instead it was Youhana who got out, chasing a wider ball from Tuffey and offering a low chance which Lou Vincent accepted in the slips (134 for 3).

Hameed's steady approach was crucial, because Inzamam-ul-Haq was very tentative during the early stages of his innings. He batted as if he was expecting some of the demons that he found in this pitch when Pakistan were last in town in 2001. But there were none this time, and Inzamam was delighted to be offered some short-pitched balls which allowed him to get onto the back foot and punch the ball through the arc from gully to extra cover.

When lunch was taken, five minutes early, Pakistan were 205 for 3. When play resumed, Tuffey soon trapped Hameed in front (209 for 4). Scott Styris came into the attack, and his controlled medium-pace tied the batsmen down more and allowed Fleming to apply pressure in a way that had not been possible during the morning session.

Daniel Vettori found some spin, although he didn't manage a wicket in his 12 overs, which cost 29. Tuffey continued the growth in stature that he has enjoyed this summer, and had 3 for 60 from 18 overs by the close. Interestingly, after all the no-ball problems the Pakistanis suffered - especially Mohammad Sami, who was called 15 times in New Zealand's long innings - the New Zealanders have been similarly afflicted. They have bowled 12 so far, with even Vettori contributing three. There's still some way to go to match Pakistan's overlal total of 33, though.

Play on the fourth day will start 45 minutes early in a bid to make up lost time (1015 local time on Monday morning, 2115GMT on Sunday night).

Moin Khan saves Pakistan's blushesClose New Zealand 563 and 4 for 0 lead Pakistan 463 (Moin 137; Tuffey 5-87) by 104 runs
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Moin Khan swatted, swished and clubbed his way to a career-best 137




Moin Khan produced a Test-best 137 at a time when Pakistan needed it, and took his team out of the woods in the first Test against New Zealand. After Moin took his team to a first-innings 463, New Zealand faced two overs and were 4 for 0 at stumps on the fourth day. Play will start half an hour early, at 10.30am, on the final day, to make up for time lost because of rain.

Moin came to the wicket at the fall of Inzamam-ul-Haq, with the new ball having just been taken by New Zealand. And despite losing Abdul Razzaq soon after, Moin found a staunch, if unlikely, ally in Mohammad Sami to see Pakistan past the follow-on mark of 364.

The day had been cut short because of overnight rain and only half an hour's play was possible before lunch. Fourteen tentative runs were added in that time, after Inzamam survived a first-ball chance when Lou Vincent dropped a catch in the gully region off Chris Cairns's bowling.

Inzamam scored his 34th half-century but then fell to Daryl Tuffey, clearly New Zealand's best bowler. Tuffey, operating with the new ball, beat Inzamam with successive balls that slipped past the bat, and then got one inside it that trapped him leg before wicket. Razzaq had demonstrated some of the touches that made him such a fearless hitter at the death in the recent one-day series against New Zealand, and was on 48 when he touched a rare leg-side ball from Tuffey and Robbie Hart took the chance low down.

Pakistan still required 79 runs to avoid the follow-on and Moin and Sami had to contend with an improved New Zealand bowling approach. Chris Cairns and Ian Butler found better rhythm. Butler was especially unlucky in having good yorker balls take the inside edge, miss the wickets and go for boundaries on several occasions. He hit Moin once when the batsman ducked into a shorter ball, but in a show of the type of mood he was in, Moin clouted the next ball back down the pitch for four.

Moin survived a close call for a run out when taking on Cairns's arm from the outfield. It took a long look at video evidence before Tony Hill, the third umpire, was able to rule that he had just made his ground.

Moin brought up his 50 off 75 balls, and then freed up once the follow-on mark had been passed, using some more innovative shots. He brought up his fourth Test century by hitting a boundary, a six and another boundary off successive balls from Daniel Vettori. He and Sami shared the only century partnership of Pakistan's innings, adding 152 runs before Vettori finally had Sami caught at the wicket 25 (437 for 7). Soon after Jacob Oram trapped Moin leg before wicket for 137 and Pakistan were 453 for 8.



Daryl Tuffey bowled his heart out, and was rewarded with a five-wicket haul


Tuffey was outstanding. He secured his sixth five-wicket bag in Tests and was consistent in his line on or about off stump. He was tireless and his work was rewarded. Ian Butler polished off the last two wickets and Pakistan were all out for 463.

There was still some excitement left in the day when New Zealand batted out a small passsage of play. Mark Richardson hit a four off the first ball of New Zealand's second innings, and then at the end of the over appeared to have a disagreement with Mohammad Sami, who had bowled his most fiery over of the match.

Rain ensures New Zealand-Pakistan cliffhanger ends in draw

HAMILTON (AFP) - Bad light and rain conspired to end the first cricket Test between New Zealand and Pakistan in a draw on Tuesday after a fiery bowling spell by Mohammad Sami had given Pakistan a slim chance of glory. Sami destroyed the top order as New Zealand collapsed to seven for 52 in their second innings before struggling back to 96 for eight, a lead of 196 before the rain intervened with 35 overs left in the day.
In a game that had been dominated by New Zealand for three days and then appeared destined for a draw on the fourth, Sami rewrote the script with a withering spell of pace bowling in the dying hours.

"There were a lot of jitters and the game was definitely in the balance," admitted New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, who won the man-of-the-match award for his first innings 192.

"We were the only ones who could lose the match and we played accordingly."

With the morning session lost because of the weather, New Zealand abandoned hopes of scoring quick runs in search of a result and the afternoon loomed as a batting exercise.

After 10 overs the score had edged up from four to 13 when Sami struck, taking out Lou Vincent (4) and Stephen Fleming (0) in the space of five balls.

In a 13-over spell, in which he fired the ball down repeatedly in excess of 150 kilometres an hour, Sami took four for 32. He then took another wicket after tea to finish with the remarkable figures of five for 44 from 16 overs.

His midas touch extended to the field where a brilliant throw from the deep had Craig McMillan run out at a time when New Zealand needed to survive rather than pick up stray runs.

Umar Gul was nearly as menacing as Sami, and had Mark Richardson caught behind and then Chris Cairns clean bowled in successive balls. Jacob Oram staved off the hattrick.

When it appeared as if Pakistan could snatch a victory that had never looked likely over the first four days, Daniel Vettori and Oram staged a desperate rescue mission with New Zealand's best partnership of 43.

Oram was New Zealand's top scorer, unbeaten on 23 after 85 minutes at the crease.

The New Zealand side, which had cursed the rain that interrupted play when they had the momentum on the fourth day, were in the end thankful for the final downpour bringing the game to an end.

The second and final Test in the series starts at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on Friday.


Score:


New Zealand 1st innings 563 (S. Fleming 192, D. Vettori 135 n.o., M. Richardson 44; Shabbir 5-117)

Pakistan 1st innintgs 463 (M. Khan 137, Y. Hameed 80, Inzamam-ul-Haq 51; D. Tuffey 5-87)


New Zealand 2nd innings

M. Richardson c Khan b Gul 15

L. Vincent c Farhat b Sami 4

S. Fleming c Khan b Sami 0

S. Styris c Umar b Sami 20

C. McMillan run out (Sami/Khan) 2

C. Cairns b Gul 0

J. Oram not out 23

R. Hart b Sami 0

D. Vettori c Umar b Sami 20

D. Tuffey not out 1

Extras (4lb, 1w, 6nb) 11

Total (seven) 96

Fall of wickets: 13, 13, 42, 42, 42, 47, 52, 95

Bowling: Sami 16-4-44-5 (4nb), Shabbir 10-7-10-0, Gul 7.1-2-25-2 (2nb), Kaneria (4-2-6-0), Razzaq (3-1-7-0)

Overs: 40.1

To bat: I. Butler

Match drawn


Toss: Pakistan

Umpires: Dave Orchard (RSA), Steve Davis (AUS)

Match referee: Chris Broad (ENG)