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Day 3 ~ India : Pak : Draw = 30 : 5 : 65.


Younus-Reverse.jpg Cricket is fast becoming an easy marketing stunt for Bollywood and I ain't sure BCCI can stop'em!

After the cast of Om Shanti Om, today we had Miss Afghanistan watch Pakistan bat out the day (4 wickets, 283 runs) and make this Bengaluru test match boring! players were in whites, so was she.. and even the cricket was friendly.

Until one of Indian players said something to Mohammad Yousuf. The right handed batsman marched upto captain Kumble - indulging into a heated conversation, which was spontaneously stopped by both the umpires. Concentration was lost anyway & Pakistani pillar got demolished 6 balls later! Younus Khan had departed just 10 balls ago (trying 4th reverse sweep against Harbhajan, got bowled), so India were up and running towards their 2-0 victory.

Faisal Iqbal never looked comfortable and Ishant Sharma's spell with second new ball was impressive - who took the wicket of Javed Miadad's nephew. But this allowed Kamran Akmal join hands with Misbah-ul-Haq. On Day 3 second test - this pair revived Pakistan's fortunes, and they're again not out at the end of Day 3 of this third India vs Pakistan test match, 2007 series.

India vs Pakistan : 3rd test Bangalore 8-12 Dec, 2007 series : End of Day 3
India 1st Inn : 626 allout (150.2 overs) Pakistan 1st Inn : 369 for 5 (117 overs)
Jaffer 17, Gambhir 5, Dravid 19 Yasir Hameed 19, Butt 50, Younus 80
Laxman 5, Ganguly 239, Yuvraj 169 Yousuf 24, Faisal Iqbal 22, Misbah 54*
Pathan 102, Karthik 24, Arafat 5/161 Akmal 32*, Extras 70 (31b, 25lb, 14nb)
Pakistan are 257 runs behind on first innings, 2 more days (180 overs) to go..


Day 3 notes
**Even cricket commentators were bored by Pakistani team not going for a win by scoring so slowly. So, Ramiz Raja did his homework and brought us the name of Miss Afghanistan.. Vida Samadzai. Rameez informs she can speak 5 languages, but I wonder Ramiz would reveal which cricketer she was at Chinnawamy stadium for? she looked more interested in her hair than cricket!

**Out of 283 runs made by Pakistan today, 70 were extras as you see in the scorecard. This is very close to the record for most extra's in a test match innings, 1 run behind West Indies record of 71 extras! Even Dinesh Karthik broke the record for most runs conceded as byes by an Indian wicketkeeper - 31 - beating Budhi Kunderans 44 years old record. Now - the all time all team record is 37, by LEG Ames of England.. Can Dinesh Karthik stop himself from achieving this sad record?? I must inform the readers that Pitch is truly terrible for keeping, and Ishant Sharma too wayward!

**Kamran Akmal & Misbah Ul Haq has made 379 runs in this Indian Oil test series so far.. most by any pair.




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