RAWALPINDI(Sportsnaama Report):
Despite of crawling at (110 for 5) in the first session of the first day, English batters struggled hard to manage score 267 runs in their first inning at Pindi Cricket Stadium Rawalpindi on Thursday. Magical spinners, Sajid Khan (6 for 128) and Noman Ali (3 for 88) restricted visitor at 267. Zahid Mehmood got solitary wicket.
After winning the toss English captain Ben strokes decided to bat first but due to the magical spell by the magical spinners Sajid Khan and Noman Ali they could not managed to stay on the wicket and lost 5 wickets on lunch and scored only 110 runs
Sajid khan got 6 wickets and conceived 128 runs in 29.2 overs including 4 maiden whereas Noman Ali got 3 wickets in 28 overs. In the first session before lunch England made on 103 runs on lost of 6 wickets and all out in the first inning on 267 runs. After the lost of early wickets english batters made a good partnership of 105 runs by J. Smith and G Atkinson who scored 89 and 39 runs respectively and made a defendable total of 267 runs on board. Pakistani bowlers used the home conditions properly and repeated the performance of the Multan test and successfully stopped the English team to score more runs.
