Pakistan began disastrously by shedding two wickets with out scoring Thursday after New Zealand set them a daring goal of 319 to win the second Test in Karachi.
Skipper Tim Southee dismissed opener Abdullah Shafique with the second ball of Pakistan’s second innings earlier than Ish Sodhi bowled nightwatchman Mir Hamza within the final over of the fourth day.
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At the shut, a shocked Imam-ul-Haq was on the crease with out scoring and the house group needing 319 runs for victory, or eight wickets in hand to carry out for a draw.
Sodhi’s wicket of Hamza got here amid a novel discipline setting from the Kiwis, with everybody crowded across the wicket.
Fox Cricket’s Kerry O’Keeffe was left in awe at it and hopes to see related fielding set-ups sooner or later.
“It warmed the cockles of my heart, as a spinner,” O’Keeffe instructed Fox Sports News.
“I see leg spinners in short form bowling with no slip trying to get an edge from a right-hander.
“To see everyone crowding the batter, that’s Test cricket to me. That’s where a wrist spinner excels, not bowling four tight overs.
“More power to the captain [Tim Southee] and Ish Sodhi for setting that field. I hope we see a lot more of it over the next decade.
“Long live Test cricket!”
A loss can be their third collection defeat at house in a season after taking place 1-0 to Australia and 3-0 to England earlier this 12 months.
No group has chased greater than 314 to win a Test in Pakistan, which the house group set towards Australia in Karachi 1994.
New Zealand declared their second innings ten minutes earlier than shut on 277-5 after Michael Bracewell hit a career-best 74 not out and Tom Blundell 74.
The pair turned the match throughout their match-turning 127-run fifth wicket stand.
Pakistan had the match below management after they had New Zealand struggling at 128-4 from 76-1 at lunch, eradicating Tom Latham (62), Kane Williamson (41) and Henry Nicholls (5).
But Blundell, dropped on 21 by wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed off spinner Abrar Ahmed, punished the house group with seven boundaries and a six earlier than holing out off Agha Salman.
Bracewell, whose earlier better of 49 was towards England earlier this 12 months, was additionally dropped on 59 by Sarfaraz off Salman.
In the post-lunch session New Zealand misplaced three wickets within the area of fifty balls and 14 runs.
Latham was well caught off a miscued flick at quick mid-wicket by Abrar Ahmed from fast-bowler Naseem Shah.
With the overall unmoved on 114, within the subsequent over Ahmed trapped Williamson leg-before.
Hasan Ali had Nicholls caught quickly after as New Zealand misplaced three wickets off 50 balls for 14 runs.
Field umpires Alex Wharf and Aleem Dar had a horrible day with three of their selections overturned.
New Zealand had been jolted within the second over of their innings when Mir Hamza bowled Conway along with his first supply.
It was the primary time Conway fell with out scoring in his 12-match Test profession.
Pakistan wasted two leg-before referrals on Williamson when the batter was on seven and 9, whereas Latham overturned a choice towards him on 36 — all off Ahmed.
At the beginning of the day, Pakistan had been dismissed for 408 after including only one run to their in a single day rating, in response to New Zealand’s 449 first-innings complete.
Spinner Ish Sodhi had final man Ahmed trapped leg-before for nought, leaving centurion Saud Shakeel stranded on the opposite finish.
Shakeel was unbeaten on 125 after a marathon resistance-packed 493 minutes on the crease, hitting 17 boundaries in his maiden hundred.
Spinner Ajaz Patel completed with 3-88 and Sodhi 3-95.
The first of the two-match collection — additionally in Karachi — resulted in a draw.
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