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Pakistan fightback sets adult intriguing finish
- Updated: October 10, 2017
Sri Lankan players applaud a exclusion of Azhar Ali. PHOTO: AFP
DUBAI: Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz Ahmed strike fighting half-centuries on Monday to perplex Sri Lanka and set adult an fascinating finish to a second and final day-night Test in Dubai.
Shafiq scored an dominant 86 while skipper Ahmed was 57 not out as they carried Pakistan from a hazardous position of 52-5 to 198-5 during tighten after being set a daunting aim of 317.
The span combined 146 for a consecutive sixth-wicket mount to leave Pakistan wanting another 119 runs with 5 wickets in palm to turn a series.
Sri Lanka won a nail-biting initial Test in Abu Dhabi by 21 runs.
Both Shafiq and Ahmed batted quietly to lift hopes of Pakistan progressing their dominant record in 9 Test array in a United Arab Emirates, their adopted home given 2009.
Pakistan have been forced to play during a neutral venue given a 2009 apprehension conflict on a Sri Lankan group train in Lahore stirred authorities to postpone general cricket in a country.
Pakistan on a verge of array whitewash
Earlier, paceman Wahab Riaz grabbed 4 for 41 and left-arm spinner Haris Sohail took 3 wickets in a singular over to boot Sri Lanka for 96 in their second innings, after they resumed on 34-5.
Shafiq brought adult his 19th Test fifty with a well-timed cover expostulate off quick bowler Suranga Lakmal, his initial 50-plus measure in 12 innings.
Ahmed crushed part-timer Kusal Mendis for his fourth range to finish his 14th Test half-century.
Pakistan conduct manager Mickey Arthur is carefree his group can scratch their approach to a famous win.
“The initial event will be fantastic,” pronounced Arthur, underneath whom Pakistan have mislaid 10 Tests and won six. “We have 7 overs to a second new round so we have to money in on them and wish that Asad and Sarfraz see us through.”
It was off-spinner Dilruwan Perera who ripped detached Pakistan with a triple strike in a second session. He discharged Haris Sohail (10), Shan Masood (21) and Babar Azam (nought) to leave Pakistan in rags during 52-5.
Perera could have claimed a wickets of Shafiq, on 26, and Ahmed, on 22, though both were forsaken by Mendis during brief leg off unbroken balls, withdrawal Sri Lanka to charity a missed chances.
Karunaratne misses double ton though SL in authority opposite Pakistan
Pakistan done a catastrophic start when opener Sami Aslam fell for one, held in a slips off Lahiru Gamage.
Masood and Azhar Ali (17) combined 31 for a second wicket before a batting fall began with Ali held off quick bowler Nuwan Pradeep for 17.
Pakistan had indispensable to make early inroads in a morning and Riaz supposing them with a critical wicket of Niroshan Dickwella in a fifth over of a day for 21.
Leg-spinner Yasir Shah discharged Perera for nought to leave Sri Lanka in risk of being all out for their lowest ever sum — they were skittled for usually 71 opposite Pakistan in 1994.
But Mendis (29) and Rangana Herath (17) combined 35 for a eighth wicket to perplex Pakistan before Sohail struck thrice in his usually over to give his group wish of an dissapoint win.