Once again Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat on a placid wicket which had nothing for bowlers and Pakistani opening pair of Shoiab Malik and Salman Butt provided a solid foundation and added 49 runs in quick time and this pair was broken by R.P Singh who bowled a consistent line and length throught the first day.

Salman Butt soon followed Shoaib Malik to dressing room and with the score at 76/2 , Pakistan looked in some sorts of trouble as Indians had sent back both the openers with consistent line and length .

Once again Pakistan looked forward to Yusuf and Younis Khan and again they rescued Pakistan from a tight situation and with both of them hitting half centuries and helping the score to move past 200 spoke volume about their characterstics of rescuing the team from a tight situation.

With both of them making half centuries Pakistan looked set for a big score , but suddenly two quick wickets of Yusuf and Younis changed the course of the innings and with Inzamam who has made a nought in first innings and big hitter Afridi who hit 3 consecutive fours in Kumble’s over made me feel that Afridi may soon loss his wicket and only Razzaq and Akmal to follow after Afridi made me to feel that Pakistan’s innings may soon come to an end after tea .

But with some sort of advice from team management and Inzamam , Afridi played a subduded knock which was remarkable change and I have not seen him a playing such a knock since he made his debut about 10 years ago and the Pakistani pair of Inzamam and Afridi accumulated runs at steady pace in the process they helped Pakistan’s scor e to move past well over 320 and with Afridi and Inzamam both reaching their half centuries ,India surely looked in some sort of trouble and when Afridi hit Pathan for two consecutive fours and sixes with score moving past 350 .Afridi considerably did his bit by playing some smart cricket to keep his wicket intact till the stumps were drawn on First day.