Pakistan is most uncertain team in the world, on start of day 2 of 1st test Omar Gull gave a great advantage to his team by taking 3 quick wickets including 2 strong batsman i.e. De Villiars and Prince. After these wickets Saeed Ajmal dismissed Kallis and Abdul Rehman restricted South Africa to 380 just adding 69 total runs in 1st day's total 311.
After this Pakistan batting kept their nerves in control and gave a splendid opening stand of 105. Both the openers Muhammad Hafeez and Tofeeq Umar gave excellent performance not only to able survive but also maintained a good scoring rate. On 111 Tofeeq Umar was IBW by Morkel and new batsman Azhar Ali and Younas Khan kept playing their positive game. At that time it was looking that Pakistan will able to take lead on South Africa.
On third morning after the dismissal of Younas Khan no one is able to play South Africa good bowling and Pakistan inning is ended on 248 runs. Azhar Ali made 56 runs and only two batsman were able to enter in double figures i.e Adnan Akmal 10 and Umar Gull 12. In this way not only Pakistan lost an opportunity to take lead but also i think lost the match.
In 2nd inning of South Africa batsmen like Smith, Amla and Kallis are looking to capitalize the advantage of lead and looking forward to give almost 400+ target to chase. Which might be a very good total for the Pakistan team.
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