Player of the Match
Player of the Match

END OF OVER:
155 | 3 Runs 1 Wkt | NZ: 431/10

  • Trent Boult8 (17b)
  • Yasir Shah37-4-113-3
  • Shaheen Shah Afridi36-7-109-4

Michael: "Bumrah has a test batting average of 3 and highest score of 10.Boult has an average of 15 and a test fifty - while Bumrah hasn't scored 50 runs over his entire test career yet. Surely no comparison!" -- He recently made his maiden first-class fifty, in an entertaining, Boult-esque manner, but yes, he has work to do to catch up.

Shahzad Iqbal: "Enjoying conversation between Rizwan and Yasir Shah in Pashto."

Jiju Ninan: "400 and above is a good score. With Boult, Wagner, Jamieson and Southee, NZ have a good pace attack. Pakistan will do well even to save this Test."

4.57pm New Zealand have 431 on the board. It's a sizeable total, but is it a total that will enable them to bat just once? There didn't seem to be a whole lot of help on offer for the Pakistan quicks today, but how will New Zealand's attack go? There could be some work to do for Mitchell Santner as well, given how much turn Yasir Shah was getting towards the end of this innings. Big job for Pakistan's batsmen to do too, of course. We'll see how they go in about ten minutes. Pakistan will have 20 overs to face today, weather and over rate permitting.

154.6
W
Yasir Shah to Wagner, OUT, big slog, and finally Yasir has broken this stand. Tossed up slow outside off, Wagner miscues the slog, and midwicket and the keeper converge towards the ball, almost colliding, but Rizwan moves out of the way in the end and lets Masood take the catch

N Wagner c Shan Masood b Yasir Shah 19 (54m 36b 2x4 0x6) SR: 52.77

154.5
1
Yasir Shah to Boult, 1 run, tossed up outside off, driven to long-off. Why do Pakistan have a long-off for Trent Boult!?!?
154.4
1
Yasir Shah to Wagner, 1 run, tossed up outside off, driven to long-off

Four men on the leg-side boundary as Yasir goes around the wicket to Wagner.

154.3
1
Yasir Shah to Boult, 1 run, quicker full ball close to off stump. Jabs hard in defence, and the inside edge runs away through square leg
154.2
0
Yasir Shah to Boult, no run, wrong'un, starts too wide outside off to make Boult play
154.1
0
Yasir Shah to Boult, no run, tossed up wide of off, inviting the big slog. Left alone, and it spins away sharply

J I Pearce: "Kane could be quite a useful bowler on this surface."

END OF OVER:
154 | 2 Runs | NZ: 428/9

  • Trent Boult6 (13b)
  • Neil Wagner18 (34b)
  • Shaheen Shah Afridi36-7-109-4
  • Yasir Shah36-4-110-2
153.6
1
Shaheen Shah Afridi to Boult, 1 run, follows him again with a full ball, which he clips towards mid-on without entirely meaning to

Around the wicket now.

153.5
0
Shaheen Shah Afridi to Boult, no run, sees Boult back away again and bowls a full slower ball that follows him. Misses what could be described as a defensive jab, and the ball goes past his edge and misses leg stump as well
153.4
0
Shaheen Shah Afridi to Boult, no run, bouncer. Boult backs away from the stumps and misses a big pull

Micah: "Trent Boult is an absolute beauty to watch when batting, never fails to entertain."

Shravan: "Boulty or Bumrah? We'll know if Mumbai Indians are even 9 wickets down."

153.3
1
Shaheen Shah Afridi to Wagner, 1 run, full-toss on leg stump, swung away to deep midwicket

Looks like slip has disappeared.

153.2
0
Shaheen Shah Afridi to Wagner, no run, digs it in short, outside off, Wagner fails to connect with the pull
153.1
0
Shaheen Shah Afridi to Wagner, no run, full, angling down leg, can't connect with the flick

Afridi to Wagner. We've not seen this for a while. Slip, gully, a fine third man, and I assume a couple of men on the leg-side boundary for the hook.

END OF OVER:
153 | 2 Runs | NZ: 426/9

  • Trent Boult5 (10b)
  • Neil Wagner17 (31b)
  • Yasir Shah36-4-110-2
  • Shaheen Shah Afridi35-7-107-4
152.6
0
Yasir Shah to Boult, no run, flat again, sliding on towards leg stump. Hops in the air while nudging it to backward square leg
152.5
0
Yasir Shah to Boult, no run, flat length ball pitching on middle and leg, keeps his front pad out of the way and defends with the turn
152.4
0
Yasir Shah to Boult, no run, shortish, starting outside off and spinning away further. Waits and chops it to backward point
152.3
0
Yasir Shah to Boult, no run, down the track, doesn't quite get to the pitch of this middle-and-leg delivery. Stretches out to jab into the on side

Pakistan 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0Abid AliShan Masood
2nd0Azhar AliShan Masood
3rd37Azhar AliHaris Sohail
4th38Azhar AliFawad Alam
5th165Fawad AlamMohammad Rizwan
6th2Fawad AlamFaheem Ashraf
7th9Yasir ShahFaheem Ashraf
8th8Mohammad AbbasFaheem Ashraf
9th2Mohammad AbbasShaheen Shah Afridi
10th10Shaheen Shah AfridiNaseem Shah