BD 248/6 at stumps on the first day.
Umar Gul took 3/71 with wicket each for Saqlain 1/61 and debutant Yasir Ali 1/43.
Shabbir looked ordinary and so did the new guy Yasir Ali.
Pakistan made five changes:
In came: Salman Butt, Farhan Adil, Younis Khan, Yasir Ali and Saqlain
Out went: Shoaib, Youhanna, Kaneria, Taufeeq and Shoaib Malik.
Bashar and Omar in the fray yet again for Bangladesh
The Wisden Bulletin by Wisden CricInfo staff - September 3, 2003
Lunch Bangladesh 83 for 1 (Javed Omar 36*, Habibul Bashar 26*)
Scorecard
Bangladesh's improved performance with the bat - 96 all out at Peshawar proving more a blip than anything else - continued in the third Test at Multan, when the side reached 83 for 1 at lunch on the first day.
At the toss Khaled Mahmud, Bangladesh's captain, seemed confident that his team would make up for the Peshawar debacle, and Javed Omar and Habibul Bashar backed that up with a solid unbroken second-wicket partnership of 55 runs.
Pakistan, having wrapped up the series, fielded five new players - including three debutants - but their bowling effort left much to be desired, especially on a pitch with tinges of green. Shabbir Ahmed sent down a spate of no-balls early in the innings, and Yasir Ali - in his maiden first-class match - was pacy but erratic, his very first ball being punched for four through point.
Umar Gul was the most impressive of Pakistan's pacers, bowling within himself and sticking to line and length with great discipline. He almost had Javed Omar early, when Rashid Latif put down a difficult chance, and he got his just rewards when Hannan Sarkar edged him to Latif when Bangladesh had just 28 on the board. Gul's 10 overs in the first session went for just 19.
Bangladesh's second-wicket pairs have prospered throughout the series thanks to the good form of Bashar and Omar. Here again they formed an effective combination. Bashar started in characteristically fiery fashion before settling down, and both he and Omar were quick to pounce on the bad balls - and there were plenty - to dispatch them for four.
Even Saqlain Mushtaq, making a long-awaited return to the Pakistan side, was handled with confidence. Saqlain bowled a maiden first up, but Omar then clipped him for consecutive fours through the leg side in his second over, the timing very evidently in fine fettle.
Apart from Saqlain, Pakistan have few bowlers of experience, and Bangladesh should capitalise on that after lunch if they are to put Pakistan under the kind of pressure they achieved for brief moments in the first two Tests.
© Wisden CricInfo Ltd
248/6 ... with their main batsmen gone, we should be able to finish them off around 280-300. Too many changes in Pakistani team.
Bashar the basher is most consistent in this series! :k:
I knew it from the beginning Saqlain is a waste of a bowler! We need a strike bowler not a part time caliber spinner..
We are lucky to have a chance to shot down Bungs below 300. Umer gul did a good job.So we don't have any fast bowlers in Pakistan? or do we have to live with Razzaq type bowlers(umer, shabbir,zahid) . I hope Sami and Shaoib joins the team and play consistently for Pakistan. We have a very poor depth in bowling department.
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I knew it from the beginning Saqlain is a waste of a bowler! We need a strike bowler not a part time caliber spinner..
We are lucky to have a chance to shot down Bungs below 300. Umer gul did a good job.So we don't have any fast bowlers in Pakistan? or do we have to live with Razzaq type bowlers(umer, shabbir,zahid) . I hope Sami and Shaoib joins the team and play consistently for Pakistan. We have a very poor depth in bowling department.
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I am sure we have a lot more fasties, its just a matter of giving them opportunity to prove themselves.
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*Originally posted by sherrybaba: *
I knew it from the beginning Saqlain is a waste of a bowler! We need a strike bowler not a part time caliber spinner..
We are lucky to have a chance to shot down Bungs below 300. Umer gul did a good job.So we don't have any fast bowlers in Pakistan? or do we have to live with Razzaq type bowlers(umer, shabbir,zahid) . I hope Sami and Shaoib joins the team and play consistently for Pakistan. We have a very poor depth in bowling department.
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Sherrybaba ji, you are saying Saqlain was a waste of bowler since he started playing international cricket or since he cameback from county.
He is probably the best offspinner after Murali himself, how can you call him a waste if someone has 1 or 2 bad games.
Yaar He was the best bowler...khatam hogaya hey..pehlay tha zabardast now he is very in effective..If he is still the second best bowler he would have cemented his place but that is not the case.We can easily utilize his place for a specialist batsman, strike bowler or an all rounder. Unfortunately he is none of the above but a waste of space :p
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I am sure we have a lot more fasties, its just a matter of giving them opportunity to prove themselves.
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I agree with you. we are pakistani damn it. some of us start to bowl fast as soon as we drop from our mom's womb. I am sure we have at least 5 bowler who can easily bowl 95 or more MPH.
by the way, how was the crowd level.
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by the way, how was the crowd level.
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Very few around, the stadium was nearly empty.
In my opinnion he is no waste of space, bowler or whatever you say. C’mon guys, if PCB dropes him and after sometime when they need some bowler they just pick him like he is some low class bolwer than this is surely damaging his confidence. I say just keep him till the New Zealand series and you will see what he is capable of. 
where is yousef youhana!! 
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Very few around, the stadium was nearly empty.
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It Seems Pakistan Team is better off playing at Sharjah :)
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It Seems Pakistan Team is better off playing at Sharjah :)
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its not venue, its opponent
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Very few around, the stadium was nearly empty.
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Test cricket in Pakistan is very unpopular, I remember when I was in Pakistan in december last year, hardly anyone was excited about the South African test series on TV, while everyone watched the one dayers.
Even in Sharjah last year it was empty.
What you guys think about the team? bowling side looks little weak, I think they should have added a allrounder like Naveed ul Hasan or someone else for Farhan Adil, Hafeez only bowl 3 overs thats pathatic.
Umar Gul has been the only savior so far for the Pakistani bowling department. Everyone else was just so-so. I doubt Saqlain was impressive. I think our bowling department is nothing without Sami and Shoaib, and both of them, especially Sami still have a lot to learn, cuz speed isn't everything.
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90.1 Umar Gul to Khaled Mashud, OUT: Gul strikes straight away, beauty!
short delviery outside the off stump, extra bounce, Mashud tries
to defend and gets an edge through to keeper, Rashid takes a nice
diving catch behind the stumps
Bangladesh 248/7, Partnership of 7
Khaled Mashud c Rashid Latif b Umar Gul 29 (79b 1x4 0x6)
Khaled Mahmud 1* (4b) Umar Gul 27.1-6-71-4 (6nb)
Mohammad Rafique in
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:~)
2 wickets in 2 balls for Shabir
Bangladesh is 9 down!!
278 is teh score
Pitch the ball up is the order of the day!