Akhtar gave the underlying cut the valued wicket of Rahul Dravid, and Mohammad Asif and Abdul Razzaq then, at that point, delivered real shows of crease bowling as Pakistan cavorted to a 341-run triumph at the National Stadium. The victory was just as unequivocal as the edge proposed, with India left to think back sadly at the initial morning when Kamran Akmal's century for the ages lifted Pakistan from the profundities of 39 for 6. Set a mammoth 607 to win, or all the more sensibly 164 overs to get by, India kept going simply 58.4 overs, with Yuvraj Singh's sublime 122 the main spot of ointment on a vast injury.
India's stagger towards their second-heaviest loss - Australia had steered them by 342 runs at Nagpur in October 2004 - began in the absolute first over when Shoaib's fearsome speed initiated the most slender of edges from Dravid's bat. That set up for Asif, the 23-year-old whose exactness and utilization of the crease at energetic speed evoked the unique Glenn McGrath.
He got monstrous development back to perplex the heavy footed Virender Sehwag and leave India out like a light. Sachin Tendulkar, maybe playing his last Test innings against Pakistan, then, at that point, strolled to the center not entirely set in stone to fight 'til the end, playing two heavenly back-foot punches through the off side and a draw for four off Shoaib bowling at close most extreme speed. He and Laxman drove and prodded their method for dining, influencing far removed of a few awful bouncers, yet not long after the stretch, everything turned out badly. Once more, it was Asif's splendid utilization of the crease that caused the harm, with Laxman scattered by inconspicuous development into him and Tendulkar stunned - in a real sense - by one that kept somewhat low to cannon into the center of off stump.
Sourav Ganguly began with two or three grandly coordinated off-drives and with Yuvraj likewise driving and pulling like a fantasy, the runs came at a frantic clasp. Asif continued testing ceaselessly, beating the bat consistently, while Shoaib returned briefly spell where an edge from Yuvraj missed the mark regarding Imran Farhat at second slip. With the match very likely lost, the two batsmen played with incredible opportunity as Pakistan set assaulting fields. Yuvraj took only 45 balls for his 50 years, and both he and Ganguly saw off the danger of Danish Kaneria with just the odd alert.
Any expectation of incredible breaks and supernatural occurrences was anyway stifled when the players returned after tea, with Razzaq molding one back onto Ganguly's cushion. Having as of now taken three wickets in the main innings and made 135 runs, Razzaq established a considerably more prominent connection with his spell in the last meeting. Faisal Iqbal dropped a sitter at square leg with Yuvraj on 77, however Razzaq didn't allow his shoulders to hang, getting Mahendra Dhoni on the drive with some additional skip and afterward having Irfan Pathan battle off a bouncer to gorge.
Kaneria, who at long last got a bowl in the 24th over of the subsequent innings, then, at that point, winkled out Anil Kumble and Zaheer Khan, before Razzaq covered an awesome allround show by having Yuvraj gotten behind. By then, at that point, Yuvraj had let his stamp on procedures with a second Test century, an innings of the greatest class in a plainly irredeemable circumstance. He drove perfectly and pulled with power when the ball was pitched short, getting done with 19 fours and a six in an innings that stood apart among the vestiges of a renowned batting line-up.
Prior to causing untold harm with the ball, Pakistan had exacerbated India's agony with the bat, stacking up 88 runs from simply 13.1 overs in the first part of the day prior to the presentation came. Razzaq pounded his direction to 90 preceding hurling Kumble down to Yuvraj at long-on, not long after Iqbal had withdrawn, having stroked a superb 139 from only 220 balls.
Razzaq began the morning's savagery by slapping a Rudra Pratap Singh conveyance previous point, and afterward took 14 from a Pathan over that incorporated a major six over long-on. Iqbal jumped in and have a good time, pulling and flicking Rudra Pratap in another 14-run over. That incited Dravid to go to turn, however Razzaq's reaction was to crush Kumble over long-on for six. Tendulkar's presentation incited a comparatively rough response from Iqbal, who wrecked him to the sightscreen and over cover, before an easy space cleared the rope behind the bowler's head.
When he and Razzaq attempted one biff too much, the harm had been done, passing on India with a Himalayan objective to scale. Except for Yuvraj, nobody even left headquarters, and they can now think about a match where Pakistan at last created the guaranteed green-top and afterward pounded them.
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