14 May,2011 07:02 AM IST | | AFP
Azhar Ali and Taufeeq Umar guided Pakistan to 45 for one in their first innings, after they lost an early wicket before lunch, in the opening Test against West Indies yesterday.
Azhar was not out on 27 and Taufeeq was not out on 13 at the interval as Pakistan started their reply to West Indies' first innings total of 226 on the second day of the Test at the Guyana National Stadium.
Pakistan lost opener Mohammad Hafeezu00a0-- their most prolific batsman in the preceding one-day seriesu00a0-- in the second over of their innings, when he was bowled for four, dragging a delivery from Ravi Rampaul into his stumps. But Azhar and Taufeeq made steady progress in between a couple alarming moments.
Taufeeq was fortunate on one when he edged a rising ball from Rampaul between second slip and gully for his first boundary. West Indies raised his heart rate again when he was on five, appealing unsuccessfully for a caught behind off the same bowler.
Azhar hardly placed a foot wrong and got into the thick of things with a square drive through cover and a back-foot cover drive from successive deliveries in Kemar Roach's fifth over. Earlier, Pakistan needed half an hour to complete the demolition of the West Indies first innings, after the hosts resumed from their overnight total of 209 for nine.
