da apostaganha： Pakistani spinners Saqlain Mushtaq and Danish Kaneria shared ninewickets to leave Bangladesh in the dumps on the opening day of thesecond and final Test here Wednesday
17-Jan-2002Pakistani spinners Saqlain Mushtaq and Danish Kaneria shared ninewickets to leave Bangladesh in the dumps on the opening day of thesecond and final Test here Wednesday.Off-spinner Saqlain captured 5-35 and leg-spinner Kaneria 4-62 asBangladesh were bowled out for 148, failing to last two full sessionsafter electing to bat on a good batting wicket.Pakistan, in reply, were 99-1 at close, with opener Taufiq Umer andYounis Khan batting on 47 apiece.Saqlain, who went wicketless in the first Test at Dhaka, struck in hissecond over and continued to torment the batsmen with turn and bounce.It was Saqlain’s 12th haul of five or more wickets in an innings andmarked the 25-year-old’s return to form after a lean period last year.Saqlain began by surprising opener Javed Omar with steep bounce toclaim his first wicket to a catch at silly-point.Habibul Bashar was caught down the leg side, while Sanwar Hossain wasclaimed leg-before as Saqlain stuck to a tidy line and length.Kaneria pegged away at the other end, having Enamul Hoque, AminulIslam and Fahim Muntasir caught in the close-in field. However hisbest wicket was that of Mehrab Hossain, who failed to read a googlyand was bowled while shaping to cut.The 21-year-old Kaneria now has 25 wickets in three Tests againstBangladesh, having taken nine in the first Test at Dhaka and 12 in theAsian Test Championship tie at Multan last year.Opener Al Sahariar was the only batsman to fall to a seamer, caughtbehind while trying to drive Waqar Younis.Bangladeshi captain Khaled Masud (28) and Aminul Islam (25) were theonly ones to offer some resistance.In reply, Pakistan lost an early wicket of Shadab Kabir for four, butTaufiq and Younis batted through till close, hitting eight boundarieseach.Pakistan included controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar in place ofthe injured Wasim Akram from the side that won the first Test at Dhakaby an innings and 178 runs.Shoaib is under scrutiny from the International Cricket Council afterhis action was questioned for a third time in four years. The 26-yearold faces a one-year ban if he is reported again for throwing.