Pak vs Zimbabwe: Abid Ali hits maiden double ton helping Pakistan take control in 2nd Test match
Pakistan dominates Zimbabwe on Saturday as the guests took complete control on the second day of the subsequent Test match at Harare Sports Club, making a major stride towards fixing a 2 to 0 arrangement triumph.
Zimbabwe were 52 for 4 at the nearby in answer to Pakistan's 510 for 8 proclaimed, 458 runs behind.
Opening batsman Abid Ali made 215 not out and Noman Ali hammered 97 preceding being puzzled off a wide.
The Zimbabwe innings got off to a terrible beginning when 36-years of age debutant Tabish Khan struck in his first over before a run had been scored.
Three additional wickets fell before the nearby and Zimbabwe glanced in urgent issue with Roy Kaia not coming out to bat in the wake of being struck a substantial blow to his left side knee while handling at short leg on Friday.
Kaia was Zimbabwe's top-scores with 48 when Zimbabwe were steered by an innings and 116 runs in the principal Test of the 2-match arrangement.
He didn't get back to the field and appeared to stroll with trouble on a vigorously tied leg on the limit edge on Saturday.
Zimbabwe went into the match with three driving batsmen missing in light of injury.
Zimbabwe's bowlers contended sensibly well until lunch on Saturday however took a pounding during the evening as Abid and Noman looted 169 off 199 balls for the eighth wicket.
The innings finished in strange conditions.
Noman was 93 not out at tea. He hit the principal ball after the stretch for four yet lifted his back foot after left-arm spinner Tendai Chisoro bowled a wide.
Wicketkeeper Regis Chakabva responded rapidly and removed the bails, with a TV replay affirming that Nauman was out.
He had hit 97 off 104 balls with five sixes and nine fours.
Having scored the vast majority of his runs behind or square of the wicket in scoring his initial 150, Abid bloomed for certain attractive drives during the evening.
Abid confronted 407 balls and hit 29 fours in beating his past most elevated score in Tests of 174 against Sri Lanka in Karachi in 2019/20.
Tabish, a veteran of 598 wickets in 137 top of the line matches, imparted the new ball to Shaheen Shah Afridi, who began with a lady once again.
Tabish set up Tarisai Masakanda with a progression of conveyances outside the off stump at that point caught the batsman leg before wicket with a full conveyance which wound back.
Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi and off-spinner Sajid Khan all accepting wickets as just Regis Chakabva, on 28 not out, had the option to arrive at twofold figures.
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