The second Test match between South Africa&Pakistan began at Cape Town(South Africa)on the
14th Of February2013The test match is being played between 14th&18th of February.
Soth African Captain was lucky to win toss.So Captain Smith promptly put Pakistan to bat.
The previous experience at Wanderers,,perhaps,was the factor behind the decision from Smith.
When a Captain puts the opposition to bat in a Test match hhis idea normally is to look
for early wickets
The assessment of Capt Smith did not go wrong.the Pakistan openers Nasir Jamshed,Mohemed Hafees
Azar Ali& their Skipper Misbah-ul-Haq returned to Pavilion in quick succession.Dale Steyn,Philander&
M.Morkel got the wickets.Morkel was the luckier one to get both Azar ali& Misbah -ul-aHaq in th
Same over.
South Africans had every reason to rejoice especially their Skipper
Smith whose decision to allow Pakistan to use the Bat first worked v
very well.At this stage the score of Pakistan was rather p
itiable as low as 33 for the loss of 4 top batsmen.The repeat of the
fate of Pakistan looked repeating at Cape Town too.
At this stage Younis Khan the veteran cricketer&former skipper of
Pakistan joined Shafiq in the middle.Their midwicket conference and
the determination in the face of Younis Khan was an obvious indication
that he was going bto assume the role of rescuing Pakistan once again
for which he had a reputation of rising to the occasion.He had done it
on many previous matchee against diffrent.
Here in Cape Town also he was not different as could be seen from the
addition of 219 runs for the 5th wicket in the able company of Shafiq
Younis Khan was struck by Nelson rather than Philander&deVilliers when
he fell at 252 towards stumps on the First Day.
Azad Shafiq who too was emberassed by Nelson at 111 at the end of
day one also fell at the same score without any addition to his
individual sgore.The 6th nwicket of Pkistan fell in the second over
of second day at259..Srfaras Ahmed the the man in the gloves for
Pakistan had staged a brief stay falling for just13 runs.
Tanvir Ahmed.however tried a lone but brief fight with 44 runs to
his credit.Saeed Ajmal&the debutant Mohammed Irfan were still
fighting with last wicket in hand when Petersen clean bowled the
debutant.Final first innings score 338 in the 117th over.
It can be seen that in this peculiar second test at Cape Town
Pakistan was extremely unlucky rather than the victims of Pace
attack from the south Africans.I am telling this because the world
number one Pacer Dale Steyn had just one wicket.Most of his wickets
were in South African Soil alone.In other nations when he plays
his taking wickets always had limitations.
Philander,however had a 5 wicket haul.RJ Petersen on whom captSmith
was banking upon had conceded the maximum runs of 94 in just24overs
In ta test match this is on the higher trend.
Now,how South African veterans like Kallis,Amla,deVilliers,Smith ,
F.du Plesis(the biggest hitter)&A.N.Petersen are going to smash
Pakistan Bowlers would be interesting to watch after Lunch on 2nd
Day
Younis Khan desrves all the praises for lifting Pakistan from
woods&a possible Tragedy.The Pak players are in JUovial mood.
SreedharanMundanat
15th Feb2013 at 16-30Hrs
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