Irfan's Dhamaka

Fourth day:

Irfan Pathan and Dhoni negotiated Pakistani attack very well as they prevented further loss of wickets in first hour of play took the score to 489 when Dhoni was stumped by Pakistan's wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal of Danish Kaneria who bowled a absolute beauty to get rid of Dhoni and it was a nice revenge for Kaneria to get rid of a batsman who had hit him for three sixes yesterday.


With the score reading at 489/6 and 100 runs in arrears with only tail tenders to come for India , Pakistan had a slight chance of bowling out India within 500 to get a sizeable first innings lead, but they failed to utilize this opportunity as Irfan Pathan and Anil Kumble batted well to keep the Pakistani attack at bay as both added about 50 runs for the 7th wicket.

And Irfan Pathan was once again unfortunate as he got out for 90 runs to a Razzaq delivery which held it’s line after pitching up. It was second time that Pathan had missed out on his maiden century , the previous occasion being 93 runs he scored against SriLanka at New Delhi .

After fall of Pathan Indian tail enders especially Harbhajan and ZaheerKhan batted brilliantly to reach the Pakistan’s first innings score of 589 and they even managed to gain a slender lead of 15 runs.

Harbhajan Singh was especially severe as he hit huge sixes of Afridi and Danish Kaneria and Zaheer Khan provided him able support at the other end to get the team past the Pakistan’s first innings score of 588.

And finally Pakistan bowled out Indians for 603 runs when R.P.Singh was brilliantly caught by Afridi of his own bowling after A slender first innings lead.