New Zealand gives up with 153 points

Pakistani bowlers have combined well to make their day © AFP

If you are sold to the same cricket brand in the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi has been a glorious disappointment today. first day of the first test between Pakistan and New Zealand, with the lion's share due to the dreadful break-in of New Zealand – 153. The humiliation was not simply due to the made it the lowest total recorded in the first heat at this point; the fact that New Zealand got so many points after choosing to fight first on what appeared to be a first-day window par excellence.

Kane Williamson is unmarked. for New Zealand with its 27th half-century in Test cricket, holding a stretched end while the rest of the visiting drummers struggled to establish a synchronization between the length of the delivery and that of the footwork. Yasir Shah and Mohammad Abbas had reduced New Zealand to 39 for 3 in the first session when Williamson and Henry Nicholls united to form a 72-point opening stand, the culmination of which opened the valves and allowed visitors to lose their last seven wickets 42 races.

Ironically, everything started on a disturbing note for Pakistan. New Zealand opponents Tom Latham and Jeet Rawal had forced Sarfraz Ahmed to use Bilal Asif's rotation in the eighth game, but Abbas, on a long run at 7, offered the first breakthrough just before the panic does not settle. It was again him. which broke the thriving position of the fourth wicket with Nicholls' unmotivated error in the second session, which saw New Zealand lose seven.

Hasan Ali pleaded in the dismissal of Nicholls solidly, choosing two wickets in two balls to send Williamson and Colin de Grandhomme back to the pavilion. While Williamson was handing a small incoming ball to the keeper of the wicket, Grandhomme was trapped in the next ball by LBW following a violent delivery from Hasan. Bilal Asif and Haris Sohail are also among the wickets and unite to choose three wickets.

Yasir Shah ends with three wickets while Abbas, Ali, Sohail finish with two each in their third command. bowling trot – The Australian 145 and 164 in Abu Dhabi have recently become the other two.

Pakistan fought hard against New Zealand, which preferred Neil Wagner to Tim Southee, which meant that Colin de Grandhomme opened the bowling alley. alongside Trent Boult. From Funny Man, however, did not disappoint and drew an outside advantage from Imam-ul-Haq to provide the first breakthrough. Mohammad Hafeez, until then brilliant with four limits, came upon a shot at the right moment from Boult's short mid-wicket.

The first two wickets saw Pakistan raise its guard. Azhar Ali and Haris Sohail then teamed up to play 87 deliveries in a crucial 32-point standoff that allowed Pakistan to win safer odds on that day, which was unequivocally a day of bowlers.

Brief Scores : New Zealand 153 (Kane Williamson 63, Yasir Shah 3-54, Haris Sohail 2-11, Mohammad Abbas 2-13, Hasan Ali 2-38 ) at the head of Pakistan (Haris Sohail 22 *, Mohammad Hafeez 20, Colin de Grandhomme 1-17, Trent Boult 1-20) on 94 tracks

] Associated Histories