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Pakistan in deep trouble CENTURION AGENCIES
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LAHORE: Shoaib Akhtar, Chief Guest at FCC's Alumni Sports Events, distributes prizes among the sporting event winners. StAFF photo
YLe Abbott took seven for 29 on his Test debut to send Pakistan crashing to 156 all out on the second day of the third and final Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park on Saturday. Pakistan, forced to follow on 253 runs behind, were 14 for one at the close, with Mohammad Hafeez bowled by Dale Steyn with the first ball of the second innings. It left Pakistan facing an almost hopeless task as they tried to avoid a series whitewash. Abbott, 25, was called into the South African squad as cover for the fast bowlers when regular reserve Rory Kleinveldt was named to replace the injured Morne Morkel. The Dolphins fast bowler, the leading wicket-taker in domestic first-class cricket, found himself in the team when all-rounder Jacques Kallis suffered a calf injury the day before the match. He bowled a tight line at a lively pace to take two wickets in an initial Pakistan collapse, which saw them slip from 46 for no wicket to 75 for four, then had a
spell of five for five as the lower order and tail crumbled. Six of his wickets were to catches in the slip cordon before he finished off the innings
by trapping Younis Khan leg before wicket after the Pakistan veteran had battled for two-and-ahalf hours and 86 balls to make 33.
SCOREbOARd SOuTh AFRICA FIRST INNINGS (334 FOR SIx OVERNIGhT) G. Smith c younus Khan b Adil 5 10 A. Petersen lbw Rahat 92 h. Amla c Sarfraz b Rahat 29 F. du Plessis c Sarfraz b Adil 121 Ab de Villiers c Shafiq b Rahat 7 d. Elgar lbw b Rahat 28 R. Peterson run out V. Philander c hafeez b younus 74 13 K. Abbot b Rahat R. Kleinveldt c Ajmal b Rahat 0 d. Steyn not out 5 Extras (b-1 lb-6 w-6 nb-12) 25 Total (all out, 103.2 overs) 409 Fall of wickets: 1-13 2-38 3-107 4-186 5-186 6-248 7-377 8-394 9-402 10409 bowling: mohammad Irfan 21.5-3-80-0 (3nb), Rahat Ali 27.2-1-127-6 (6nb, 6w), Ehsan Adil 12.1-2-54-2 (3nb), Saeed Ajmal 29-6-76-0, younus Khan 6-0-28-1, mohammad hafeez 5-0-24-0, Azhar Ali 2-0-13-0. Pakistan first innings 18 mohammad hafeez c Elgar b Abbott Imran Farhat lbw Philander 30 6 Azhar Ali b Philander 33 younus Khan lbw Abbott
misbah-ul-haq c Petersen b Abbott 10 6 Asad Shafiq lbw Steyn 17 Sarfraz Ahmed c Smith b Abbott 0 Saeed Ajmal c Smith b Abbott 9 Ehsan Adil c du Plessis b Abbott mohammad Irfan c Elgar b Abbott 0 Rahat Ali not out 0 Extras (lb-17 w-8 nb-2) 27 156 Total (all out, 46.3 overs) Fall of wickets: 1-46 2-56 3-56 4-75 5-95 6-132 7-132 8-149 9-149 10-156 bowling: Steyn 12-5-25-1 (1w), Philander 10-2-30-2 (1w), Kleinveldt 121-49-0 (1nb, 1w), Abbott 11.4-4-29-7 (1nb 1w), Peterson 1-0-6-0 Pakistan second innings (follow-on) mohammad hafeez b Steyn 0 5 Imran Farhat not out 8 younus Khan not out 1 Extras (lb-1) 14 Total (for one wicket, 9 overs) Fall of wickets: 1-0 To bat: Azhar Ali, misbah-ul-haq, Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmed, Saeed Ajmal, Ehsan Adil, mohammad Irfan, Rahat Ali bowling: Steyn 4-1-9-1, Philander 3-2-2-0, Abbott 1-1-0-0, R. Kleinveldt 1-0-2-0, South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
PHF brings four new faces for azlan Shah Cup Hockey LAHORE STAFF REPORT
The Pakistan Hockey Federation has brought in four new faces for the Azlan Shah Cup to strengthen the bench strength and rested four of thr senior players. The Azlan Shah Cup has four new faces and the team management is hopeful to get decent results in the event being played from March 9-17 in Ipoh, Malaysia. The fresh legs included in the 18member squad are half line players Amir Shahzad, Tasawar Abbas and forward Irfan Junior and Mohammad Imran Jr, said Akhtar Rasool Chaduahry, manager and chief coach of the team at a press conference here on Saturday at National Hockey Stadium. Coaches Hanif Khan and Ajmal Lohdi were also present on the occasion. The team chief coach said the two senior players Shakeel Abbasi and former captain Wasim Ahmed have been given rest in order to test the abilities of new players. Rizwan Sr, and Mohammad Rashid who preferred playing league abroad rather joining the national camp were not considered and the team management have sent a compliant against them to the
Pakistan Hockey Federation. To a question Akhtar refused to predict teams chances on reaching victory podium and rather said: “We are working hard on improving teams performance and we are confident to get decent results,” “I don’t want to make tall claims regarding teams reaching the victory stand but one thing is very clear that we are going there with a high aim to show consistency keeping in mind our title victory in Asian Champions Trophy in Doha December last. Akhtar Rasool said the four new
players are the produce of the junior team and the team management has taken Azlan Shah Cup as an event to test the talent of new players for building the team for future needs. “We want to give rest to some senior players because Azlan Shah is the only tournament ahead of us to gauge the potential of new players as we will be playing a number of important tournaments afterwards and there are lesser chance to induct new faces,” he asserted. The former Pakistan captain said he has faith in new comers and he believes they
will be justifying their inclusion by putting up their best in the Azlan Shah Cup in which worlds best teams will be playing. He said team management is making changes in the side keeping in view the future assignments including next year’s World Cup and 2015 Olympics. Hanif Khan said he was not afraid of criticism and he is fully satisfied on the selection of the team. “We are going to try new players and at this stage it is difficult to say how they will perform but hopefully they will live upto the expectations,” he added.
THE TEAM: Goalkeepers: Imran Butt, Imran Shah Fullbacks: Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Imran (captain), Muhammad Atiq Halfbacks: Rizwan Jr, Farid Ahmed, Amir Shahzad, Muhammad Tauseeq, Tasawar Abbas. Forwards: Waqas Sharif, Shafqat Rasool, Haseem Khan, Mohammad Imran Jr, Ali Shah, Muhammad Suleman, Kashif Ali and Irfan Jr. Seven stand byes are: Khalid Butt, Kashif Shah, Sabtain Raza, Muzammal Bhatti, Muhammad Suleman, Arslan and Dilbar.