India’s captain Rahul Dravid won a good toss and rightly decided to bowl first on the pitch which had a tinge of grass in it. His decision was rightly justified by Irfan Pathan who bowled with venom as he claimed the hatrick in his very first over.

Irfan Pathan was greatly helped by the conditions at National stadium at Karachi,
Where the curator had left a huge amount of grass to assist bowling after the Pakistan Cricket Board was flayed for preparing unresponsive pitches at Lahore and Faisalabad .

Irfan Pathan who had not bowled very well in the last two matches silenced his critics by claiming wickets of Salman Butt,Younis Khan,Yousuf of three successive deliveries to put Pakistan on backfoot very early.

Irfan Pathan on his fourth delivery claimed the wicket of Salman Butt,as the left hander needlessly edged a away going delivery to Rahul Dravid at slip as Pakistan loosed it’s first wicket without any runs on the board.Then came Younis Khan who had previously scored four consecutive centuries in last four tests against India .

Younis Khan got out to Irfan next ball as he got a sharp in swinger which trapped him in front of the wicket. Yousuf followed Younis very next ball as he was bowled by an in swinger as Irfan claimed his first hatrick in his career.