Pakistan’s batsmen beget tended to find it easier to pick off runs against visiting spinners,Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali in particularWhatever induced Adil Rashid to play that final shot? He had batted beautifully for 171 balls, with great maturity and judgment at total odds with his brief first innings, or then,on the 172nd, with the finishing line in sight, and he cracked.
Did the Pakistan fielders,seven of them round the bat, finally come by to him? It cannot beget been that he saw easy runs, or for they were an irrelevance and he had turned down plenty in the previous overs to stay on strike against Wahab Riaz.
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Source: theguardian.com