I wanted to have 10 wickets in the match, I got it in a day – Yasir

If you've ever thought about giving a ball to a vegetable and ask him to go riot, it would result in some "oohs" and "aahs." Maybe, a few wickets.But, if you give the same order to Yasir Shah, it will make the terrain look like a distance of 22 yards. -Long minefield

To say that Yasir was at his best on the third day of the second test will not be an exaggeration.If you followed the play of the day or if you looked at the highlights of his spell, you would swear your life on it.

It was a spell that summed up perfectly the art of the leg turn: there was an effective use of fingerprints It's a step change to get the most out of the field, a change of pace badociated with a clever skill using it. There was this drift and dip. There were erratic googlies. And, there was the flawless bowling in length and line that made Yasir a champion of the whites.

Yasir was unleashed. At the penultimate session of the first session, his hot legs represented the wickets of Tom Latham, Ross Taylor and Henry Nicholls. After exploiting the difficult areas throughout the session by throwing pins at Latham around the wicket, Yasir changed his angle and gave him his hand to comfortably grab the short legs. In the next four bullets, Taylor and Nicholl crossed their defenses.

The attack continued after lunch as New Zealand lost its batting lineup in just 40 points, giving Pakistan a mammoth lead of 328 points. Sarfraz Ahmed imposes the follow-up.

Yasir eliminated Jeet Raval for the second time in two hours. And when his lethal delivery of legbreak – which snapped back to take advantage of his kick off his leg – kicked Kane Williamson back towards the end of the day, that allowed him to realize what he was doing. no other bowler from Pakistan had done before.

"When I came [to the ground] this morning, I thought I had 10 wickets in this game," Yasir said. "I did not know that I would be able to get them in a day.I was developing plans accordingly.Now the goal is to put the wickets aside from the remaining bag."

Throughout the day, Yasir broke records. His 8 against 41 in the first innings were ranked third best bowler for a Pakistani cricket test behind Abdul Qadir and Sarfraz Nawaz. During the carnage, Yasir became the only player to record a century of testing in the UAE.

Last month, however, things were a bit different.

When he returned to the Cricket Test, the first day of the two races against Australia, after a year after healing a hip fracture, Yasir failed to get a ticket in one inning. This was the first case of this kind in the United Arab Emirates. He made his presence felt in the next few rounds by getting three wickets in a row in the final minutes of the match to bring Pakistan to the brink of victory. He also took wickets in the next match. But, overall, he has not lived up to his reputation in the series.

This series has grown rapidly. He picked up eight wickets in the first test, including a five for the second run. You can be forgiven for not having noticed him because he was overshadowed by Hasan Ali's first five-yard shot. But on Monday, everyone noticed his gigantic performance.

"I was back on the pace against Australia when I came back after an injury," Yasir said. "You needed time to get into the rhythm after an injury, although I rolled well, but I did not have my pace, so the goal was to get it back … have to stay patient when you do not have wickets and you work your weaknesses. "

It can be said that the cricket test has returned to normal in the UAE. After two tedious days in which Pakistani drummers have exhausted the opposition with their sleeves to the rhythm of snails, Yasir has wreaked havoc. This was the mode of operation of Pakistan under Misbah ul Haq. And now that Ybader is fit again, Sarfraz can try to win the series by sticking to it.

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