England faces uphill task in final test
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February 6, 2012, Monday
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ENGLAND faces a tough run chase of 324 to win the third and final test after Azhar Ali scored a career-best 157 for Pakistan in Dubai yesterday.
England needs another 288 runs in its second innings after ending the third day on 36-0 with captain Andrew Strauss 19 not out and Alastair Cook undefeated on 15. It lost the first two tests and must handle the spin threat of Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman to deny Pakistan a clean sweep of the series.
Cook should have been out on 4 in Umar Gul's second over, but Taufeeq Umar missed an easy catch at third slip. Strauss also survived a close lbw referral off the bowling of Mohammad Hafeez but the TV umpire upheld Simon Taufel's decision.
Earlier, Ali's 157 off 442 balls spanned almost nine hours in Pakistan's second innings score of 365 before spinner Monty Panesar (5-124) and Graeme Swann (3-101) claimed the last seven wickets for just 34 runs.
Ali featured in two productive stands, adding 216 runs with overnight century-maker Younis Khan and a further 87 runs with Misbah before England spinners hit back on either side of the tea break.
Panesar started the collapse when he had Misbah trapped leg before wicket. It was the Pakistan skipper's fifth successive lbw dismissal of the series.
Panesar, who also took seven wickets in the second test, then started the late flurry of wickets when he had Asad Shafiq lbw - the 40th leg before wicket decision of the series - and clean bowled Adnan Akmal for zero.
In Melbourne, Australia opened the Tri-Series with an emphatic 65-run win over World Cup champion India in a rain-shortened limited-overs international yesterday. Matthew Wade scored 67 runs on his ODI debut, while the Hussey brothers contributed 106 runs as Australia reached 216-5 in a 32-over innings which included a three-hour rain delay. India was all out for 151 in reply.
England needs another 288 runs in its second innings after ending the third day on 36-0 with captain Andrew Strauss 19 not out and Alastair Cook undefeated on 15. It lost the first two tests and must handle the spin threat of Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman to deny Pakistan a clean sweep of the series.
Cook should have been out on 4 in Umar Gul's second over, but Taufeeq Umar missed an easy catch at third slip. Strauss also survived a close lbw referral off the bowling of Mohammad Hafeez but the TV umpire upheld Simon Taufel's decision.
Earlier, Ali's 157 off 442 balls spanned almost nine hours in Pakistan's second innings score of 365 before spinner Monty Panesar (5-124) and Graeme Swann (3-101) claimed the last seven wickets for just 34 runs.
Ali featured in two productive stands, adding 216 runs with overnight century-maker Younis Khan and a further 87 runs with Misbah before England spinners hit back on either side of the tea break.
Panesar started the collapse when he had Misbah trapped leg before wicket. It was the Pakistan skipper's fifth successive lbw dismissal of the series.
Panesar, who also took seven wickets in the second test, then started the late flurry of wickets when he had Asad Shafiq lbw - the 40th leg before wicket decision of the series - and clean bowled Adnan Akmal for zero.
In Melbourne, Australia opened the Tri-Series with an emphatic 65-run win over World Cup champion India in a rain-shortened limited-overs international yesterday. Matthew Wade scored 67 runs on his ODI debut, while the Hussey brothers contributed 106 runs as Australia reached 216-5 in a 32-over innings which included a three-hour rain delay. India was all out for 151 in reply.
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