ENG vs PAK 2nd Test: Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi required only four balls to expel England’s Rory Burns for a duck on Sunday before downpour cut off the fourth day of the second Test as awful climate indeed intruded on the match.
Britain were 7-1 in answer to Pakistan’s first innings 236 when the umpires took the players off the Ageas Bowl outfield at 12.00 pm neighborhood time (11.00 GMT).
At the point when play was at last relinquished for the day at 3:51 pm, only 10.2 of the day’s planned 98 overs had been bowled.
A representative for the umpires said it would take at any rate over two to three hours to get the square fit for play and significantly more opportunity to dry a downpour drenched outfield, taking them past the 7 pm cut off for the day’s play to end.
With just a day remaining, this match currently seems bound for a draw ” an outcome that would save England’s 1-0 arrangement lead following their three-wicket triumph in the principal Test at Old Trafford a week ago.
The arrangement closes with the third Test, additionally at Southampton, beginning Friday.
In desolate conditions that, with the floodlights on, supported Pakistan’s pacemen as they had England’s quicks, quick bowler Afridi created an eminent conveyance that moved away from individual left-hander Burns, who edged to second slip Asad Shafiq.
It took England, who last won a Test arrangement against Pakistan in 2010, until the third over to score their first runs, with Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley battling against Afridi and the precise Mohammad Abbas.
At the point when the umpires called a stop, Sibley was two not out and Crawley, reviewed instead of Ben Stokes after the star all-rounder pulled back from this match to be with his evil dad in New Zealand, five not out.
Rizwan hits out
Prior, Mohammad Rizwan top-scored with 72 as Pakistan’s first innings finally reached a conclusion.
Pakistan continued on 223-9 after downpour had cleaned out the entire of Saturday’s play after terrible climate had likewise shortened the initial two days.
Rizwan was 60 not out ” his second fifty out of eight vocation Tests following his 95 against Australia in Brisbane in November.
The wicketkeeper, in association with hounded tailender Abbas (two off 20 balls), had taken Pakistan past 200 out of a ninth-wicket after they had met up with the sightseers battling at 176-8.
Rizwan made his goals clear by swingingly fiercely, and missing, at James Anderson as he ran after the pitch to Sunday’s first wad of the day.
The wicketkeeper did, be that as it may, reach when he cut a drive off Anderson over the slips to the third man limit.
Rizwan likewise square-cut Anderson for a very much struck four preceding he was out while, pointing legside off Stuart Broad, he got a main edge and was trapped in the spreads by Crawley.
Rizwan batted for three and three-quarter hours, confronting 139 balls with seven fours.
Pakistan were likewise obliged to Abid Ali (60) and Babar Azam (47) for careful innings when the conditions were stacked against the batsmen.
Wide, who had just become the primary England bowler since off-spinner Graeme Swann 11 years prior to take three wickets in seven continuous Test innings, drove the assault with 4-56 in 27.2 overs.