Pakistan astonish South Africa on day 2

South Africa had a brilliant first day of the test as all their four top order batsmen scored half centuries before they were dismissed. Pakistan clinched the next day by dismissing their last 8 wickets for just 69 runs and Gul giving them the three early break-through.

The way South Africa started the test on the first day their play on the second day was not up to the mark on the second day as they were dismissed to 380, though it’s a pretty good score but their start aroused a hope for an even bigger score from them. Gul did the early damage followed by the spinners to restrict the South African’s from scoring on the second day of the test.

Pakistan was already put on track by the bowlers, when batsmen came on to bat then Taufeeq who had been recalled into the test side after a long break of around four years showed his impetus along with Hafeez giving them a century stand for the first wicket. Hafeez also scored a magnificent half century before he was dismissed by Harris. At the end of the day Pakistan are 144/2 which was a respectable score considering the huge total. In the end it was a contributed effort from the bowlers and the batsmen to get Pakistan into a good situation after a poor start on the first day.

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Bowlers and Openers keep India on the top

Indian bowlers had their day today as both Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh took all the remaining wickets on day 2. They took the visitors last seven wickets for just 97 runs ,except Jesse Ryder none other New Zealand batsmen was able to impress with the bat on the day as they were all rattled off by both the Indian senior bowlers.

India was already provided with the kind of start they wanted by their bowlers and to add more to the visitor’s misery Indian openers also started to blow off the steam as Virender Sehwag turned another nightmare for the bowlers and made a sizzling half century and just fell short of his century by four runs when he was bowled by Vettori as he tried to slog-sweep the delivery completely missing the ball as the ball went into his stumps. Gambhir along with Sehwag put up a  160 run stand together and Gambhir making his first half century in after 10 months. While Gambhir also lost his wicket in the very next over after Sehwag departed.

India were already on the right track till the time New Zealand bowlers got rid of both the well set openers, but that just added some hopes to the New Zealand dressing room in the end as the most destructive opening pair was back to the pavilion. New Zealand are again on back foot start from the start of the game even after putting a healthy total on the board.

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