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Approved-By:  "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@CENTRAL.SUN.COM>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket.scores
Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:40:00 MST
Reply-To:     "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
From:         "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM>
Subject:      Pakistan vs New Zealand (1T2D - Hamilton, New Zealand, Jan 3)

   A fine innings of 133 by opener Mark Greatbatch saved New Zealand's
first innings against Pakistan on the second day of the one-off Test
match on Sunday and at the close the Kiwis had a 40 run lead with two
wickets in hand.  The fortunes of the game swung dramatically.
Saturday Pakistan, with the exception of captain Javed Miandad who
scored 92, put on a poor batting display and were dismissed for 216.

   New Zealand began Sunday with 23 runs on the board and all their
wickets intact, and Greatbatch and Blair Hartland took the score to
106 at lunch. At that point New Zealand were confidently looking at a
match-winning total but a collapse in the second session saw five
wickets fall and at tea the score had deteriorated to 168-5.  After
tea Greatbatch managed to hold the innings together with help from
wicketkeeper Adam Parore, who partnered him for 94 minutes in a 61 run
stand.

   Greatbatch was dropped twice in his innings, by Asif Mujtaba at
short leg and Inzamam-ul-Haq at second slip, and was finally trapped
leg before by Waqar Younis 10 minutes before the close.  New Zealand
ended the day on 256-8 with Danny Morrison and Michael Owens still to
bat. A first innings lead of about 60 runs Monday seemed likely.  It
was Greatbatch's third test century, scored in 427 minutes off 317
balls with 16 boundaries.  The Trust Bank Park pitch, which had helped
the New Zealand bowlers on the first day, was still lively. Waqar and
Wasim Akram were getting bounce and movement while leg spinner Mushtaq
Ahmed was getting considerable turn.

   It was Mushtaq who broke the opening partnership, persuading
Hartland to come down the wicket to him in the second over after
lunch.  Hartland misread the spin, missed the ball and was at least
two metres out of his crease when Rashid Latif took the bails off.
Hartland had scored 43.  Andrew Jones joined Greatbatch and Akram got
him leg before in the second over he faced, a fast yorker which struck
him low on the back pad.  Rod Latham suffered the same fate from an
identical ball in the same over from Akram which hit him on the foot.
Jones and Latham had both scored two.  Ken Rutherford, captain for the
match in the absence of the injured Martin Crowe, was now New
Zealand's main hope for a real partnership.  He began confidently
against the fast bowling but Mushtaq bemused him with leg spinners and
soon had him caught behind, snicking a ball to Rashid when he had
scored 14.

   Chris Harris was in even more difficulty against Mushtaq. In his
brief innings he was dropped by Rashid, survived a confident lbw
appeal and was dropped in the slips by Aamir Sohail. Waqar put him out
of his misery by trapping him leg before as he went on the back foot
and missed with his score on six.  Dipak Patel scored a relatively
rapid 12, deciding attack was the best form of defence. It wasn't for
long, and Mushtaq had another lbw decision in his favour.  Parore came
in to put on his anchor role opposite Greatbatch and the pair looked
like surviving until stumps. But it was Greatbatch who fell, his
excellent innings ended by a slower ball from Waqar which he missed
and was out leg before.

   New Zealand were now really into their tail-enders, none of whom
are noted for batting skills. Murphy Su'a, hero of the first innings
when he took 5-73, struggled to survive and did so until the last ball
of the day when he was caught behind off Waqar.  New Zealand could be
said to hold a slender advantage at the close but Pakistan were
unlikely to bat as badly in their second innings as they did in the
first and the home side could face a difficult target in the final
innings of the match.


Pakistan 1st innings 216
  (Javed Miandad 92, Rashid Latif 32 n.o, M.L.Su'a 5-73, D.K. Morrison 3-42)

New Zealand first innings (overnight 23-0):

   M.J. Greatbatch lbw b Waqar.................133
   B.C. Hartland st Rashid b Mushtaq............43
   A.H. Jones lbw b Akram........................2
   R.T. Latham lbw b Akram.......................2
   K.R. Rutherford c Rashid b Mushtaq...........14
   C.Z. Harris lbw b Waqar.......................6
   D.N. Patel lbw b Mushtaq.....................12
   A.C. Parore not out..........................16
   M.L. Su'a c Rashid b Waqar....................0
   Extras (b1, lb13, nb13, w1)..................28
   Total (8 wkts)........................... ..256

   Fall of wickets: 1-108, 2-111, 3-117, 4-147, 5-164, 6-193, 7-254, 8-256

   Bowling

   Akram 29-9-63-2(12nb), Waqar 26-10-56-3(1w), Mushtaq 38-10-87-3,
   Aaqib 7-2-24-0(1nb), Aamir 5-2-12-0.

   Overs: 105

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