India started their World Cup defence by making it 6-0 against Pakistan

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

Match 4, India Vs Pakistan

Adelaide, 15th February 2015

Toss - India, decided to bat first

Match officials

Umpires - I Gould, R Kettleborough

TV Umpires - SJ Davis

Referee - R Madugalle

India 1st Innings

Pakistan 2nd Innings

India won by 76 runs

Man of the Match - Virat Kohli

Pakistan thrash SL to reach Asia Cup final

Mirpur: Pakistan relied on a clinical display to storm into the final of the Asia Cup after thrashing a hapless Sri Lanka by six wickets to record their second successive victory on Thursday.

After bundling out Sri Lanka for a paltry 188 all out in 45.4 overs, the Pakistanis rode on captain Misbah-ul-Haq (72 not out) and Umar Akmal's (77) record 152-run partnership to cruise to a comfortable victory with a bonus point and with 61 balls to spare at the Sher-e-Bangla National stadium.

Paceman Aizaz Cheema (4/43) and spinner Saeed Ajmal (3/27) played a big role in ripping through the Sri Lankan batting line-up which paid the price for some poor shot selections. Only Kumar Sangakkarra (71) and Upul Tharanga (57) managed to put up decent knocks.

The defeat has virtually knocked Sri Lanka out of the tournament having lost both their league matches so far. Sri Lanka had lost to India by 50 runs in their opening match on Tuesday.

If India beat hosts Bangladesh on Friday, the two arch rivals will clash in the summit showdown on March 22.

Pakistan did well to recover from the early jolts as Misbah and Akmal played sensibly to overhaul the target.

Chasing the modest target, the Pakistani openers began cautiously before getting into a more attacking frame of mind with Nasir Jamshed cracking a couple of delightful boundaries off Nuwan Kulasekara.

The islanders struck in the ninth over through Suranga Lakmal who scalped Jamshed, while going for a pull but only succeeded in giving a catch to Upul Tharanga.

From 29 for no loss, Pakistan suddenly slumped to a precarious 33 for three as Mohammad Hafeez (11) and the veteran Younis Khan (2) perished in quick succession.

Spinner Seekkuge Prasanna struck in his very first over to get rid of Hafeez as he went for a drive to a flighted delivery and offered a catch to Dinesh Chamdimal at backward point.

Nine balls later, Younis Khan joined him in the pavilion after Farveez Maharoof produced a brilliant catch at the mid-wicket region off Lakmal. Maharoof ran in from mid-on and just about managed to scoop the ball inches from the ground.

Captain Misbah-ul Haq and Umar Akmal then steadied the ship as they batted cautiously to gradually wriggle out of the tight situation.

The two batsmen then unleashed a barrage of strokes to completely tilt the game in Pakistan's favour as they took the score close to the target Akmal perished.

Earlier, Sangakkara and Tharanga waged a grim battle, adding 96 runs for the fifth wicket, but the Lankans needed more, which they could not, against the pace and spin combo of Cheema, Gul and Ajmal.

Electing to bat, Mahela Jayawardene (12) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (20) gave Sri Lanka a flying start as both accumulated 33 runs off the first five overs.

Cheema, before his remarkable comeback, was clobbered for 17 runs in his very first over.

While Jayawardene blasted Cheema for three fours in the second over, Dilshan joined the party with two consecutive fours in the fourth over off the same bowler.

However, Cheema had the last laugh as he lured Jayawardene into attempting the aerial route, which led to his dismissal. The Lankan skipper was caught by Mohammad Hafeez at extra cover.

Cheema soon took his revenge on Dilshan with a short-pitched delivery. The opener went for a pull even as the ball reared at him quickly from back of a length, resulting in a top-edge, which Ajmal managed to hold around mid-wicket.

Sri Lanka slumped into more misery as Dinesh Chandimal guided a sharp delivery from Gul to the slip cordon where Younis Khan completed a brilliant diving catch to his left.

Pakistan beat Eng by 8 runs to win 1st T20

Dubai: Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal bowled superbly at the death to inspire Pakistan to an eight-run victory over England in the first Twenty20 international in Dubai on Thursday.

T20 World champions England looked to be cruising to a target of 145 following a quickfire 33 from the in-form Kevin Pietersen and Ravi Bopara's 39 but man-of-the-match Gul dismissed Jos Buttler and Samit Patel with successive deliveries in the 18th over to give Pakistan hope.

Ajmal then bowled a brilliant 19th over of the innings, conceding just four runs, to put Pakistan on the brink of victory with England needing 18 off the last six balls.

Jonny Bairstow and Graeme Swann were unable find the boundary off Junaid Khan's final over and managed just nine runs.

Pakistan, beaten 4-0 in the 50-over one-day series, would clinch the three-match Twenty20 series with victory in the second game in Dubai on Saturday.

England won the toss but Pakistan raced to 36 runs in the first three overs before losing wickets at regular intervals as the scoring rate slowed.

Captain Misbah-ul-Haq struck a huge six in his unbeaten 26 off 26 balls and Shoaib Malik made 39 but Swann completed figures of three for 13 from four miserly overs to restrict Pakistan to 144 for six.

Pietersen, confident following consecutive centuries in the one-day series, struck 13 runs off the first four balls of the England innings and raced to 33 off 21 deliveries before he was brilliantly caught on the leg-side boundary by Asad Shafiq trying to hit his second six.

Bopara made a fluent 39 to put England in control of their chase but Gul returned to dismiss him, Buttler and Patel in rapid succession.

KP hits another ton as England clean sweep Pakistan

Dubai: Kevin Pietersen scored his second century in as many matches as England beat Pakistan by four wickets on Tuesday to sweep the one-day international series 4-0.

Pietersen hit 130 off 153 balls, his highest ODI score, and he teamed up with Craig Kieswetter (43) for a 109-run partnership as England eclipsed Pakistan's total of 237 with four balls remaining at Dubai Sport City.

"It was probably the best innings I've played," said Pietersen, who scored 111 not out in the third ODI on Saturday. "I think you need experience and runs in order to keep the situation very simple and back your ability. When I saw they were playing 40 overs of spin I thought, 'Oh no.' But I've spent hours and hours with Mushy (England spin coach Mushtaq Ahmed) to sort out the issue.

"I thoroughly enjoyed this."

It was England's first whitewash against Pakistan in a limited-over series in 25 years. The result somewhat unexpected given Pakistan beat England 3-0 in the Test series and India beat England 5-0 in a recent ODI series.

"It was a really good comeback," England captain Alastair Cook said. "I said at the beginning of series that if we are going to turn this around, we need people to stand up and be counted. I think a number of us have done that in the side. Pakistan had won 14 out of 15 one-dayers in a row. For us to win 4-0 in subcontinent-like conditions is a fantastic achievement for us."

Earlier, Pakistan were bowled out for 237 on the final ball of the innings after Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq hit half-centuries.

Ali (58) and Shafiq (65) put on 111 for the second wicket to give Pakistan a platform, but England's bowling attack stemmed the runs in the middle order.

Jade Dernbach took 4-45, while Danny Briggs, making his international debut, finished with 2-39.

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq kept the innings intact with 46 from 52 balls but wickets kept falling around him.

Eoin Morgan made a diving catch at point for Ali to fall to Dernbach. Bresnan made another fine catch to remove Shahid Afridi on 9, before the batsman had time to rally Pakistan's tail.

In response, England made a dismal start when Cook was out lbw on review for 4. Cook, who has been added to the Twenty20 squad due to an injury to batsman Ravi Bopara, had scored centuries in first two matches and a half-century in the third.

But Pietersen and Kieswetter turned things around. England were also helped by allrounder Samit Patel hitting 17 runs not out.

Misbah praised England's batting but also blamed his team's top-order failures and fielding lapses for the whitewash.

"England really batted well after the test series and started playing the spinners well," Misbah said. "They got four centuries in four matches and that is the main difference between the two teams."

England beat Pakistan to take 2-0 series lead

Abu Dhabi: Alastair Cook hit a second successive hundred to guide England to a 20-run win over Pakistan in the second day-night international on Wednesday, giving his team a 2-0 lead in the four-match series.

England put up a challenging 250-4 powered by Cook's 102 before they bowled well to restrict Pakistan to 230 in 49 overs at Abu Dhabi Stadium.

Misbah-ul Haq failed to match his counterpart during his 59-ball 47 as Pakistan lost track after being well set at 179-4, needing 72 in the last 11.1 overs. Steven Finn, who took four wickets in the first match, finished with the identical figures of 4-34 to anchor England's win.

Pakistan got off to a good start with Mohammad Hafeez (26) and Imran Farhat (47) notching 61 by the 16th over before Hafeez was caught at mid-wicket off James Anderson.

Farhat, who hit five boundaries, added 31 for the second wicket with Azhar Ali (31) before Samit Patel took two wickets in the space of 12 runs, removing Ali and Younis Khan (five). Farhat fell to a silly run out, leaving Misbah and Umar Akmal (21) to add 37 for the fifth wicket before Patel took a smart diving catch at cover to send Umar back with 72 still needed off 11.1 overs.

Shahid Afridi briefly threatened England with a run-a-ball 18 but his wicket and Craig Kieswetter's sky-high catch to dismiss Misbah settled the issue for England.

Cook said he was confident that 250 was a winning total. "It was a slightly different pitch from Monday on which a 250-total was good enough and we bowled well upront. Finn was again outstanding," said Cook, who won a second successive Man-of-the-Match award.

Misbah said fielding made the difference. "I think the batsmen showed improvement, but the fielding was the main difference. We lost wickets in cluster," said Misbah, whose team lost their last five wickets for 23 runs.

Earlier Cook scored his fourth hundred - the first England captain and ninth batsmen for his country to hit back-to-back hundreds in one-dayers - to carry on the good work after his career-best 137 in Monday's win in the series opener. The 27-year-old left-hander put on 67 for the opening wicket with Kevin Pietersen (26) after England won their second successive toss and batted.

He also added 49 with Jonathan Trott (23) for the second and 78 for the third with Ravi Bopara who made an attractive 58. Cook was again at his fluent best, hitting 10 boundaries off 121 balls before he gave a return catch to leg-spinner Shahid Afridi in the 42nd over.

He hit paceman Umar Gul for two boundaries to reach 99 and then took a single off Abdul Rehman to reach the three-figure mark as he carried the batting right from the off. England, who remained unchanged from the first match, also owed their progress to a dropped catch by part-time wicket-keeper Umar Akmal who let Cook off on 28 off Afridi, a costly laspe for Pakistan.

Ajmal, who finished with 1-54, again provided the breakthrough when he trapped Pietersen leg-before in the 16th over. Paceman Cheema had Trott caught behind before Cook and Bopara followed their 131-run stand in the first match with another solid partnership.

Bopara, who hit four boundaries during his 66-ball knock, gave the finishing touch to the innings with a 56-run stand for the fourth wicket with Eoin Morgan whose 25 not out had one six.

The third and fourth matches will be played in Dubai on Saturday and Tuesday.

Pakistan win third Test, sweep series

Dubai: Pakistan recorded their first-ever whitewash against England on Monday after a 71-run victory in the third Test sealed a crushing 3-0 series win over the world's top-ranked team.

England - chasing an imposing 324-run target - were dismissed for 252 on the fourth day of the final Test with fast bowler Umar Gul grabbing 4-61 and off-spinner Saeed Ajmal 4-67.

Matt Prior delayed the inevitable with an unbeaten 49 off 58 balls before he ran out of partners as last man Monty Panesar was lbw by left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman.

Pakistan won the first Test by 10 wickets and the second by 72 runs when they bowled out England for 72 while chasing 145 runs.

The whitewash has now put England in danger of missing out on the ICC's annual jackpot of $175,000 which is awarded to the top Test team in the rankings by the April 1 cut-off date - a position they could lose if second-placed South Africa beat New Zealand 3-0 in March.

"Wonderful performance," said Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq, who has lost only one of the 15 Test matches since being appointed captain in 2010. "The victory means a lot to us because not many people gave us a chance after we were bowled out for less than 100 in the first innings."

England's struggle against Pakistan's top spinner Ajmal and Rehman continued throughout the series as they ended up with bulk of wickets with 24 and 19 scalps, respectively.

"We have to learn important lessons from the series - most importantly to put runs on the board and how to play spinners," England captain Andrew Strauss said. "Whenever Pakistan had their noses in front they never allowed us to make a comeback throughout the series."

Ajmal struck in his successive overs after lunch, triggering the England collapse when he ended Alastair Cook's four-hour knock of 49, with Younis Khan taking a brilliant two-handed diving catch to his left in the slips.

A sorry series for Kevin Pietersen (18) in which he scored only 66 runs in six innings ended with Ajmal's brilliant delivery that went between bat and pad.

Gul also rattled the middle order in the space of four deliveries by removing Ian Bell (10) and Eoin Morgan (31) that brought Pakistan closer to a historic win by tea - for 173-6.

Gul, the lanky right-arm fast bowler, had Stuart Broad caught at long off when he returned with the second new ball soon after the break before Graeme Swann scooped a catch to Asad Shafiq.

Pietersen lofted Rehman over the head for a four and a six in one over, but it was the only brief highlight in an otherwise struggling England on a wearing wicket.

Earlier, Pakistan fielders had a scratchy morning after England resumed at the overnight score of 36-0.

Cook, who was dropped on 4 on Sunday evening, survived again on 28 when Gul misjudged a top-edged sweep in the deep that went for a boundary.

Pakistan wasted their last DRS referral when Ajmal thought he had Cook lbw on 37, but the television replays clearly showed that the ball pitched outside the line of leg-stump, much to the disappointment of Pakistan captain Misbah.

Strauss and Cook resumed England's pursuit of the 324-run target with some confidence before Gul found the outside edge of the England skipper's bat, but wicketkeeper Adnan Akmal dropped a regulation catch.

Strauss was out soon after when he was trapped lbw by Rehman off a delivery that spun back sharply from the rough.

Even the DRS referral couldn't help Strauss and he began the long walk after replays showed the ball would have hit the top of middle stump. Trott then swept high to Rehman in the deep off Ajmal as England went to lunch at 89-2.

Along with completing Pakistan's first Test series whitewash of England, it was also the first time for 105 years that a team had won a Test match after being dismissed for less than 100 runs in their first innings.

Pakistan had been bowled out for 99.

The victory feat was last achieved by England, who defeated South Africa by 53 runs at Headingley in 1907 after being bowled out for 76.

The 3-0 triumph is also the latest step in Pakistan's transformation under Misbah, who was appointed captain after a spot-fixing scandal in 2010 in England that led to three Pakistan players eventually being sentenced to jail in London. His team has only lost one Test match since then, to the West Indies.

England and Pakistan will now compete in four one-day internationals, starting February 13 in Abu Dhabi, and then three Twenty20 games.

Chasing 324 to win, England 36/0 on Day 3

Dubai: England face a tough run chase of 324 to win the third and final Test after Azhar Ali scored a career-best 157 for Pakistan on Sunday.

England need another 288 runs in their second innings after ending the third day on 36-0 with captain Andrew Strauss 19 not out and Alastair Cook undefeated on 15.

England lost the first two Tests and must handle the spin threat of Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman to deny Pakistan a clean sweep of the series.

Cook should have been out on 4 in Umar Gul's second over, but Taufeeq Umar missed an easy catch at third slip. Strauss also survived a close lbw referral off the bowling of Mohammad Hafeez but the TV umpire upheld Simon Taufel's decision.

Earlier, Ali's 157 off 442 balls spanned almost nine hours in Pakistan's second innings score of 365 before leftarm spinner Monty Panesar (5-124) and Graeme Swann (3-101) claimed the last seven wickets for just 34 runs.

Ali featured in two productive stands, adding 216 runs with overnight century-maker Younis Khan and a further 87 runs with Misbah before England spinners hit back on either side of the tea break.

Misbah was defensive in his approach, but ensured Pakistan gradually built their lead with a painstaking 31 off 115 balls during which he hit only one boundary.

Panesar started the collapse when he had Misbah trapped leg before wicket. It was the Pakistan skipper's fifth successive lbw dismissal of the series.

Panesar, who also took seven wickets in the second Test, then started the late flurry of wickets when he had Asad Shafiq lbw - the 40th leg before wicket decision of the series - and clean bowled Adnan Akmal for zero.

Ali soon crossed his previous best ever first class score of 153 after tea before Cook held onto a sharp low catch to bring an end to the innings which included 10 fours and a six.

Panesar wrapped up the innings quickly by having last man Gul leg before wicket.

Earlier, resuming at 222-2, overnight century-maker Khan frustrated England bowlers before he was trapped lbw by Stuart Broad.

Khan went for the referral but TV umpire Shahvir Tarapore upheld onfield umpire Steve Davis' decision as replays suggested the ball would have just clipped the bails.

That brought an end to a double century stand that began before lunch on the second day before Pakistan had wiped off a first-innings deficit of 42 runs.

Khan hit 12 fours and a six in his 20th Test century and faced 221 balls in a superlative display of aggression and defence for just over five hours.

Just before Khan's dismissal England missed a chance when James Anderson found the outside edge of Ali's bat on 84, but Swann dropped a low two-handed catch at second slip.

Ali, resuming on 75, square cut Panesar for his fifth boundary of the innings to raise his second Test century off 319 balls as Pakistan progressed to 295-3 at lunch.

Strauss had no answer to the solid batting on a wicket that saw Pakistan bowled out for 99 and England also restricted to 141 in its first innings.

Kevin Pietersen was the sixth bowler used by Strauss, but his three overs of offspin could not bring reward for the top-ranked Test team before Panesar and Swann struck late in the afternoon.

Wickets tumble on Day 1 of Pakistan-England Test

Dubai: England batsmen ruined the terrific job by seamers Stuart Broad and James Anderson to end up at 104-6 against Pakistan on a bowler-dominated opening day of the third Test on Friday.

Broad bulldozed the top order with 4-36 and Anderson captured 3-35 to shoot out Pakistan for 99 but left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman grabbed 3-23 before the top-ranked team overhauled Pakistan's sixth lowest ever total against England.

Captain Andrew Strauss scored a fighting unbeaten 41 on an eventful on Friday when three rulings by one of the best umpires in the world, Simon Taufel, were overturned.

Strauss was also lucky on 35 when he swept to Rehman and was hit on the back leg. However, Rehman did not go for the referral as TV replays showed it could have overruled Taufel's decision a fourth time.

England paid the price for keeping the faith in its struggling batting lineup that was humiliated in the first two Tests.

Kevin Pietersen (32) briefly showed some of his batting prowess in a 57-run stand with Strauss before Rehman had him lbw. It was the 34th lbw decision of the series, surpassing the previous high of 33 recorded in the series between Pakistan and West Indies in 1993.

Rehman went on to claim the wickets of Eoin Morgan (10) and Matt Prior (6) as England batsmen just managed to get past Pakistan's total.

Earlier, skipper Misbah-ul-Haq's decision to bat first after winning the toss backfired and Pakistan could never recover after Broad and Anderson reduced Pakistan to 21-5. Asad Shafiq fought a lone battle with 45 off 78 balls before he became one of Monty Panesar's two scalps.

England's reply also had a rocky start. Jonathan Trott could have survived had he used video review but the batsman chose to walk after scoring 2 as replays suggested fast bowler Umar Gul's delivery would have missed the leg stump.

Gul had England in early trouble when Alastair Cook, on 1, offered a thick outside edge in only the second over as England took tea at 19-2.

Anderson, who had struck in his very first over in the morning, ensured Pakistan did not reach 100 when he closed the innings by clean-bowling Gul midway into the second session.

The 34-run eighth-wicket stand between Shafiq and Saeed Ajmal (12) ensured Pakistan passed its lowest ever score of 53 made against Australia in 2002 at Sharjah.

Shafiq pulled Broad to the midwicket boundary to also take Pakistan past its lowest score of 72 against England at Birmingham two years ago.

Pakistan had a disastrous start at the same venue where it defeated England by 10 wickets last month.

Anderson had opener Taufeeq Umar lbw for a duck off his sixth delivery and Broad was unlucky not to get rid of Mohammad Hafeez in the next over when Strauss at first slip dropped a two-handed head-high catch.

But Broad did not have to wait long for his reward, striking three times in the space of 16 balls as Pakistan crumbled inside the first hour.

He succeeded on both of his TV referrals after the Australian Taufel had adjudged Azhar Ali (1) and Hafeez (13) not out.

Hafeez could face disciplinary action from match referee Jeff Crowe after he sarcastically clapped with his bat while walking back to the dressing room after his lbw decision by TV umpire Shahvir Tarapore.

In between those successful challenges, Broad snared Younis Khan, who flashed at a wide delivery on 4 and edged through to wicketkeeper Prior.

Anderson reduced Pakistan to 5-21 when he had Misbah trapped lbw for 1 as he missed while trying to play across the line.

Strauss, who saw his batsmen fall well short of a modest victory chase of 145 runs in the second Test at Abu Dhabi last week, kept the pressure on Pakistan and Broad took his fourth wicket by having Adnan Akmal lbw for 6.

Graeme Swann was also amongst the wickets in his only over bowled, with Pietersen at mid-off neatly holding onto a skier from Rehman.

Top-ranked England needs to win the last Test to ensure it pockets the ICC's $175,000 prize money awarded to the No. 1 Test team every April 1.

2nd Test: Ajmal late strikes peg back England

Abu Dhabi: Pakistan offspinner Saeed Ajmal removed Alastair Cook for 94 and took two more late wickets to restrict England to 207-5 and ensure the second Test is poised at stumps on Thursday after the second day.

Cook hit 10 boundaries in batting for nearly five hours and Jonathan Trott scored a gritty 74 with seven boundaries, but England lost 3-9 late in the day to trail by 50 runs after having bowled out Pakistan for 257 earlier in the morning.

Ajmal went wicketless for 24 overs before dismissing Cook, Kevin Pietersen (14) and Eoin Morgan (3) in his last five to finish with 3-67.

Ajmal mesmerized England's batsmen last week in taking 10-97 to inspire Pakistan to a 10-wicket win in the first Test at Dubai.

Cook put on 139 for the second wicket with Trott before he was out leg-before-wicket when he looked set for his 20th Test century.

Trott should have been out lbw on 22 off Ajmal, but Pakistan failed to ask for a television referral when replays showed that the ball would have hit the top of middle and off-stump.

Becoming frustrated with the stand, Pakistan wasted both their referrals on Trott before and after he had completed his half-century off 95 balls with six fours.

Both England batsmen were watchful as Pakistan failed to take a wicket in the second session on a pitch that offered assistance to the slow bowlers.

Left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman broke the stand after tea when Trott missed the line of the ball which brushed his off-stump.

England had lost skipper Andrew Strauss before lunch after having ended Pakistan's innings inside 15 minutes of Thursday's play.

The out-of-form captain struggled for 42 balls before falling to offspinner Mohammad Hafeez, before Trott and Cook joined in for a stand lasting nearly 3½ hours.

Strauss scored only 16 and 9 in the first Test and looked out of sorts on Thursday against spin, with Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq deploying his slow bowlers as early as the sixth over.

Strauss succumbed when a big deflection from his bat onto his pads offered a simple catch to Asad Shafiq close to the pitch.

Earlier, Pakistan added only one run to their overnight score of 256-7 before Stuart Broad and James Anderson ended the innings in the space of 16 deliveries.

Broad finished with 4-47 after trapping Misbah lbw off his fourth delivery, which nipped back into the Pakistan captain. Misbah hit five fours and four sixes in his 84. He used the referral but TV umpire Billy Bowden upheld onfield umpire Steve Davis' decision.

Anderson trapped Ajmal lbw and forced Junaid Khan to loop a catch to slips to end the innings and enable the swing bowler to finish with 2-46.

Offspinner Graeme Swann took 3-52 while recalled spinner Monty Panesar had 1-91.

Misbah revives Pak in Abu Dhabi Test

Abu Dhabi: Half centuries by captain Misbah-ul-Haq and Asad Shafiq helped Pakistan recover to 256-7 against butterfingered England on day one of the second Test on Wednesday.

Misbah, who won the toss, was unbeaten on 83 while Shafiq made a composed 58 as England's scratchy fielding allowed them to put on a century-stand for the fifth wicket.

England, despite their missed chances, still made stumps with hopes of bowling out Pakistan for under 300, while the home side could harbour confidence of passing 300 as long as their captain is there. He's already been there for nearly four hours.

Misbah, dropped on 30 by James Anderson, hit five fours and four sixes. Shafiq, dropped on 53 by Alastair Cook close to the wicket, hit seven boundaries and a straight six off recalled spinner Monty Panesar.

Misbah took 142 balls to raise his half century but finished the day with a flourish by hitting Panesar for successive sixes in the last over.

England captain Andrew Strauss contributed to the poor day in the field when he floored a chest-high catch of Adnan Akmal before the batsman had scored, off Anderson's second delivery with the second new ball.

Pakistan were struggling at 103-4 just after lunch, but Misbah and Shafiq resisted for more than two hours to regain momentum.

Misbah lofted Panesar for two successive sixes over the long on boundary early in his knock, but waited patiently thereafter to hit his first boundary after tea as the wicket eased out for batting.

Shafiq struggled for nearly half an hour but gained confidence with some crisp boundaries on both sides of the wicket. He brought up his half century with a sharp single off Panesar before he was caught on the back leg by Graeme Swann while attempting a sweep shot.

Earlier, Mohammad Hafeez (31) and Taufeeq Umar (16) provided a steady start of 51 runs.

The openers were little troubled in the first hour and put on 41. Hafeez cut Swann's very first delivery to backward point for a boundary, but soon the offspinner got his line right and bowled well in tandem with Panesar as the Sheikh Zayed Stadium pitch, which usually is a featherbed for batsmen, began offering assistance to both spinners.

Swann uprooted Umar's off stump when the left-hander offered no shot to a straight delivery and Panesar bowled Hafeez off a beautifully bowled arm ball, only a delivery after dropping the batsman off his own bowling.

Stuart Broad provided England a sniff of running through the opposition when he sent Younis Khan's (24) and Azhar Ali's (24) off stumps cartwheeling in the second session in space of five runs.

Broad, who took 3-47, trapped Akmal for 9, then Swann, with 3-52, brushed the off stump of Abdur Rehman for a duck late in the day.

Panesar, playing his first test since 2009, replaced paceman Chris Tremlett, who has a back injury and will be flying back home.

Pakistan also made one change from the side that won the first Test by 10 wickets, with fast bowler Aizaz Cheema making way for young paceman Junaid Khan.