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[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

Younus Ton Sets Up Exciting Day 5 Chase​

Younus Khan scored 125 to set South Africa 372 to win with a day to play.
South Africa bowled well to stop any big partnerships forming but the Khan and Afridi one could dent their chances of leveling the series the day started with Pakistan with all 10 wickets remaining, Farhat went first for 48 c & b Wagner, Umar soon went to De Wet after passing his fifty he departed for 57
Ul Haq went for 8 caught by Jaarsveld bowled by Kallis, Yousuf fell to Nel for 19, Then a 150 parntership between Khan and Afridi got the scoreboard to 300, Afridi went for 79, Caught by Jaarsveld bowled by De Wet, Akmal fell for 8, another catch for Jaarsveld, Morkel the wicket taker, Younus fell next for 125 LBW Kallis, Ahmed fell soon after for 2 after Wagner caught him in the slips Kallis the man picking him up Gul soon fell for 8, bowled by Morkel, S Ahmed was out for 8 also LBW Morkel, Leaving Pakistan 391 all out

South Africa's bowling was a lot better today and if it wasn't for the Khan, Afridi partnership they would have been skittled out for under 300, Pick off the bowlers was skipper Kallis who picked up good figures of 3-54 Morkel also took 3 wickets (3-108) De Wet (2-69) Wagner (1-67) and Nel (1-69) all taking wickets

South Africa Survived a twenty minute skirmish from the bowlers and went in 11-0

South Africa Require 361 runs to win with 10 wickets remaining​

 

[surendar]

SA should have to be too careful now.. its better to aim for a draw. Kallis needs to continue the same good form which he showed in bowling.

 

[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

South Africa Hang On For Draw​

South Africa survived a cruicial 5 overs to draw the 2nd Test of the 3 match test series, South Arica scored 235-9 to draw the game in which De Villliers Stared hitting a match saving 81 off 222 deliveries to save the game, Dippenaar was the first to go Caught Behind by Akmal bowled by Ahmed for 18, Kallis came and played pure blockers cricket 23 off 91, Boycott would have been proud of that innings to take up some deliveries he went to a controversial LBW by Ahmed, Prince agan failed scoring 6 off 11 before caught behind by Akmal bowled by Ahmed, De Villers then fell to Ahmed caught by Afridi, Rowley soon followed for 43 off 134 balls a plum LBW bowled Ahmed, Jaarsveld then got a four-ball duck being clean bowled by Ahmed,Duminy went for 3 for 28 balls before another caught behind for Akmal Raza picking up the wicket, Wagner then went for 10 off 10 before once again Akmal caught him and Ahmed rewarded his wicket, De Wet was the last to fall for 14 off 24, Morkel 13* off 45 balls and Nel 0* off 9 balls saved the day for South Africa

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De Villiers 81 saved the day for South Africa ​

Player Ratings​

Pakistan
T Umar - 6 recoverd wel from first innings flop with a fifty
I Farhat - 6 good average scores
Y Khan - 8 His centruy changed the game
I Ul Haq - 7 hit a superb 72 in the first innings
M Yousuf - 3 not batting as he did last year
S Afridi - 8 contributed well with the bat a 70 and 60
K Akaml - 8 missed out on a century but kept remarkably
W Ahmed - 7 picked up a good five for
U Gul - 4 another quiet game
S Ahmed - 6 picked up 6 wickets
K Raza - 5 hit a fast 28* picked up 5 wickets
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South Africa

H Dippenaar - 4 not good
AB De Villiers - 8 saved the game with 81 who needs Boucher!
J Kallis - 7 produced a good all round performance
A Prince - 5 fifty in first failed in the 2nd innings nearly cost them the game
J Duminy - 7 88 in first innings
V Jaarsveld- 7 98* unlucky to miss out, 0 in second pressure too much
N Wagner- 6 good debut not alot of wickets but batted well
M Morkel - 6 played well again
F De Wet - 7 another 5 for very expensive in 2nd
A Nel -3 Poor performance​

MOTM: Younus Khan for Pakistan AB De Villiers for South Africa

South Africa need to win the next game to Draw the series ​

 

[Spoobir]

Wow, that must have been tense!

 

[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

yeh it was i was playing it ball by ball for 5 overs

 

[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

remember guys its OK to post a reply a quick message will do takes about 15 seconds :onpc

just feels about 3 people post on it again and again and again

 

[Highlander999]

That's how it is with some stories. As it grows you should get more readers. Look at Suren's story.

Looked like a good game and nice work mate

 

[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

Pre Match Report​

Welcome everybody for the 3rd and final test of the series, the games so far have been entertaining can this happen for a 3rd time or will Pakistan play for a draw to win the series, the pitch is poor for fast bowlers, but will help the spinners with much more turn as in the last 3 games

The Teams​

Pakistan​

Openers: T Umar I Farhat.
Middle Order: Y Khan I Ul Haq (c) M Yousuf S Afridi K Akmal (wk).
Tail End: W Ahmed U Gul S Ahmed K Raza.​

No changes for Pakistan after mass media speculation of M Yousuf and U Gul being out off form and should make way to some other players for the last match

South Africa​

Openers: H Amla AB De Villiers (wk)
Middle Order: J Kallis (c) J Duminy V Jaarsveld G Rowley A Prince J Botha
Tail End: M Morkel F De Wet A Nel ​

2 changes for South Africa replacing Dippenaar and Wagner is Amla and Botha, Ashwell Prince lucky to retain his place after some poor showings recently

Pakistan have won the toss again and chosen to bat first again​

 

[Highlander999]

Nice work. Hopefully Saffa can get a positive result. Reps for hard work if I hadn't already repped you

 

[freddiw]

like this story

 

[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

Nel Passes 100 Test Wickets​

Pakistan were bowled out by South Africa for 305 with Mohammed Yousuf top scoring with 98, Pakistan got off to a slow start but, Farhat went first for a 16 ball duck caught behind by a sprawling De Villiers bowled by Nel, he didn't seem to know he had 100 wickets until Kallis came over and told him, Yonus Khan was next bowled by Nel for 14, Ul Haq came and went for 6 caught by Kallis for Nel to pick up his 3rd wicket, Umar reached fifty but straight away Botha produced a jaffa that dipped swerved and spun all over the place, Umar just spooned it up to Amla who took the catch comfortably, Afridi and Yousuf put on 100 together before Afridi trying to go big off Morkel hit it straight at Botha who took the catch Afridi departing for 57, Yousuf then went for 98 with Botha bowling a long-hop his eyes lit up as he looked to put it away to reach his century but he tried to hard and feathered the ball into De Villiers gloves W Ahmed soon fell for 20 off 22 De Wet getting a wicket, Akmal departed for 34 off 71 balls Nel pitching the new ball up to generate swing it swung for left to right to knock Akmal off his feet it was a plum LBW and it was Nel's 4th wicket off the game, The last over produced two wickets for De Wet Gul went to the first ball off the over for 3 and with the final delivery Raza inside Edged the ball onto the leg stump.

Nel reached his 103rd wicket in the innings ​

South Africa's Bowling was superb today with Nel the pick off the bowlers with 4- 58 off 20 overs, De Wet took 3-72 and cleaned up the tail, Botha took 2-54, Morkel 1-55

Pakistan reached a psychological score off 305 will South Africa bat well or once again collapse.

 

[Spoobir]

Hmm, reasonable total by Pakistan. But what is a physiological score?

 

[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

i tried to spell physcological but i spelt it wrong then my interent tunred off so i copied and pasted it in word and it said it was spelt wrong so i just clicked on the first spell change option

and for gods sake stop nitpicking

 

[Spoobir]

Are you sure you didn't mean "psychological"?

 

[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

yes i did and your starting to wind me up