J P Oram also gone,
80.4 Shabbir Ahmed to Oram, OUT: Shabbir Strikes again! pitches on
legstump and swing in, Oram tries to play it on the onside, bowled
around the legs
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for what?
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Cricinfo is wrong...Shoaib still has to serve the ban for the one test match because he said something to a SA batsmen. He missed the first 2 ODI's against NZ in the ODI series because of that.
New Zealand 275/6 (81.1 ov)
S Fleming 
go to pavillion!!!
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J P Oram also gone,
80.4 Shabbir Ahmed to Oram, OUT: Shabbir Strikes again! pitches on
legstump and swing in, Oram tries to play it on the onside, bowled
around the legs
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Well done Shabir... Great job.
Shoaib was banned for 1 test and 2 ODIs. THe test ban was completed in 2nd test against SA.
bhai jaan aap pehle kahan thay?? 
Teaser man, its buffering like crazy. Yaar audio ka he bandobast ker doo, like a 12k stream on cric info for AUs-india. Thanks anyway
38 is 3rd highest scorer on the scoreboard, and that is all thanks to our bowlers.
38 extras in a test match only in 85 overs is shameful
“bowling bowling, jaye ga ye jaye gaa” says Moin Khan
sounds funny 
Sami 
Good batting by S Fleming unbeaten on 125
NZ 295/6
Shabbir 3/51
Kaneria 2/63
Sami 15 nb in 19 overs, 0/84
Does anybody know how the pitch is playing. Will a NZ score of around 350 be considered good on the pitch ?
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Good batting by S Fleming unbeaten on 125
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and to think he was OUT on the first ball he faced....
caught by the keeper off sami....
the umpire made the mistake and PAK paid the price....
Chalo atleast some semblence of a fightback, Shabbir bowled really well throughout the day and i thought Umer Gul deserved atleast a wicket in his post-lunch spell, bowled really well :k: Danish also chipped in with some late wickets, Not a bad job done in the end after NZL were 190-2, Sami was surprsiignly disappointing 
Some1-- the wicket is not at all horrifying and 350 shouldnt be a match-winning score
both shoibs not playing? why?
what happened to Sami,,
15 No Balls, and he was acting as if he was slipping at the popping crease,, he was clearly over stepping... Pretty disappointing stuff from him.. Nz in a healthy state right now, but I m sure Pakistanis will bowl them out pretty soon... tomorrow..
Fleming defies resurgent Pakistan
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Stephen Fleming celebrates his sixth Test century
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Pakistan stormed back into the first Test in Hamilton today on the back of some indisciplined batting by the New Zealand middle order and some dogged bowling by Danish Kaneria and Shabbir Ahmed. Stephen Fleming stood resolutely in their way, though, and was unbeaten on 125 as New Zealand ended the first day on 295 for 6.
The first two sessions of the day belonged to New Zealand. At lunch, after being asked to bat first, they were 98 for 1. At tea they were 192 for 2. Pakistan were staring down the barrel of a formidable first-innings target to get back into the game, and they pulled it back splendidly. Fleming demonstrated the maturity that comes from playing 77 Test matches to resist them, and his work was far from done at close of play.
Fleming batted in the manner he has long been capable of achieving, posting his century off 195 balls. It was a timely and valuable display that deserved better support from the middle order. But New Zealand were guilty of an over-zealous desire to flog the tiring Pakistan bowlers in the post-tea session, and they paid the price. It was a faulty approach and undid the preparatory work done by Mark Richardson in a 101-run stand with Fleming, and Scott Styris during a third-wicket 100-run stand.
Danish Kaneria, the legspinner, winkled away through 16 overs, bowling the occasionally troubling wrong 'un, and picking up two wickets in identical fashion at a cost of 63 runs. His victims were Styris (33) and Craig McMillan (22), each of whom edged to Taufeeq Umar at first slip after being surprised by the bite and bounce off the pitch. Suddenly, from the comfort of 217 for 2, New Zealand slumped to 249 for 4 - and then 266 for 5.
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Mark Richardson played a gutsy innings in the morning, but couldn’t convert his start
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The runs were coming quickly, though. McMillan danced down the pitch to Kaneria and hit him for two soaring sixes, the second of which cleared the grandstand at the northern end of the ground. But off the next ball, he was gone.
Chris Cairns started tentatively, batting like a man who had not played Test cricket for 21 months, which he hadn’t. He hit one boundary in his 11 before Shabbir completed a double by having Cairns edge behind. Then Jacob Oram was bowled around his legs and left staring down the pitch wondering what had happened.
Shabbir was the pick of the Pakistan pace attack, a unit depleted by the withdrawal of Shoaib Akhtar, who failed a fitness test on his injured hamstring before the game. Shabbir kept a tighter line than Mohammad Sami and Umar Gul and ended with 3 for 51. Sami had a horror day while trying to find his rhythm. He conceded 15 no-balls and ended the day with his 19 overs having cost 84 runs.
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what happened to Sami,,
15 No Balls, and he was acting as if he was slipping at the popping crease,, he was clearly over stepping... Pretty disappointing stuff from him.. Nz in a healthy state right now, but I m sure Pakistanis will bowl them out pretty soon... tomorrow..
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yar pakistan is lacking the fire power in the absence of shoaib akhter....plus sami has suddenly hit this patch of bowling no-balls. its been said kay he's lost his rythm....how long is he gonna take to get his rythm back....this has been the story since he made his comeback from injury in the bangladesh one day series.....
I feel pakistan could've used the wealth of experience in Waqar Younis and taken him along, thats what pakistan is missing at the moment. The bowlers have the pace and ability, but they're spraying the balls all over. In this situation, if Waqar had been there he couldve offered his advice plus chipped in with a wicket or 2 which we know he still is capable of doing.
I feel the Pakistani think tank missed a trick by dropping him so soon after the world cup, they couldve tested him for a series or 2 after that. Which is very unlucky on Waqar's part as well. Time and again he's been kicked out of the squad for no fault of his own. Earlier on it was the squabble with Wasim Akram, this time he was blamed for the poor performance of the pakistani bowling attack.
I think Tauqir Zia resigned at a perfect time :-)