Legbreak googly master Yasir Shah spins Pakistan secure a cliff-hanging victory on the last day of the second Test match of the three match series on Monday.
Pakistan were only two wickets away from victory in the second Test in Dubai at tea on the final day as Adil Rashid stood defiant to delay the anticipated celebration of Pakistan. Pakistan are 1-0 up in the three-Test series after stumping England at 312 all out.
Green Shirts took three pre-lunch wickets in a torrid session for England in which the spin bowlers, Yasir Shah and Zulfiqar Babar, held sway on an increasingly challenging final-day surface, but Adil Rashid fashioned prolonged resistance to delay the anticipated Pakistan celebrations.
Should Pakistan win the series 2-0, they would go second in the ICC Test rankings, quite an achievement for a side unable to play Tests in their own country because of an unstable political situation. Their presence in World T20 is threatened by Indian extremists and, as if all that was not enough, as they returned to the dressing room at tea their priority was to discover more news about an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude, centred upon Afghanistan, which had shaken Pakistan’s major cities.
