Abu Dhabi, (AFP): Left-arm paceman Junaid Khan chipped in with a lass five-wicket transport to assistance Pakistan gold Sri Lanka for a small 197-run sum upon a initial day of a opening Test upon Tuesday. The 21-year-old, personification in usually his second Test, with 5-38 as well as was ably upheld by gait partner Umar Gul (2-37) as well as off-spinner Saeed Ajmal (2-56) after Pakistan put Sri Lanka in to bat upon a greenish Abu Dhabi track pitch.
Pakistan accomplished a day during 27-0, with Mohammad Hafeez upon seventeen as well as Taufiq Umar dominant upon eight. Sri Lanka, who were quietly placed during 51-1 during lunch, could never redeem from a detriment of 6 wickets for 65 runs in between lunch as well as tea, as Khan constructed a detonate of 3 wickets in a space of usually 5 deliveries.
Vice-captain Angelo Mathews burst 4 bounds as well as a 6 in a fighting dominant 52 to equivocate sum disaster, putting up innings’ tip partnership with Suranga Lakmal of 54 after Sri Lanka were rickety during 114-7.
Paceman Aizaz Cheema (1-51) had non-stop a gates by dismissing former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara (two) in a second over after lunch, forcing an corner off a left-hander that was smartly hold by a diving screw Adnan Akmal.
Opener Tharanga Paranavitana afterwards gloved a short-pitch smoothness off Gul to Akmal to leave a Islanders struggling during 79-3. Paranavitana strike 3 bounds during his studious strike of 37.
Skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan, who demoted himself to array 5 opposite Australia last month, strike a initial round he faced for a range as well as combined 33 with Paranavitana prior to Sri Lanka mislaid a way.
Dilshan was detrimental to be since out, held at a back of off Ajmal by New Zealand referee Tony Hill when replays showed he obviously longed for a ball. Khan afterwards ripped by a middle-order, dismissing Mahela Jayawardene (28) with a third round of his ninth over, had Parasanna Jayawardene (nought) 3 balls after as well as afterwards Rangana Herath (nought) off a initial round of his next.
Khan, who took usually a single wicket in his entrance Test opposite Zimbabwe last month, returned for his third spell to take a last dual wickets, removing Chanaka Welegedara (11) as well as debutant Nuwan Pradeep (one) to hang up a innings.
Before Khan’s last acts, Gul had discharged Lakamal (18) to finish Sri Lanka’s resistance. Khan, elite over some-more gifted Wahab Riaz, fit his preference as both Pakistan as well as Sri Lanka motionless to come in with 3 pacemen as well as a single dilettante spinner, with a Islanders giving entrance to Nuwan Prasad.
In a initial event Sri Lankan openers were cautious, as Misbah brought upon spinner Hafeez in a eighth over. But it was Ajmal who gave a new thing dismissing opener Lahiru Thirimanne for twenty prior to lunch.
The 3 Test array was shifted to United Arab Emirates after Sri Lanka refused an call in to debate Pakistan in a arise of terrorists attacks upon a troops bottom in Karachi in May this year.
Five-wicket Khan puts Pakistan upon tip in initial Test
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