The second test between India v Pakistan will be held on 30th November on Eden Garden at Kolkata. You know that India has won the first test by 6 wickets. This victory will provide some extra inspiration to India in the next test match. In first test Pakistan was failed to make a big score of their first innings. The top order batsmen were failed to get run. Only Misbah-ul-Haq could to do highest 82 runs and in the 2nd innings he did also 45 runs. Arriving after long Yasir Hamid played well in the first and second innings. Salman Butt also played excellent but unfortunately become catch out by the ball of Anil Kumble. Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik failed to get run in both innings. Although the bowlers of Pakistan were able to create pressure upon India but the top and middle order batsmen were failed to build a big score.
Shoaib Malik needs no reminder that losing, and losing to India, does as much for the stock of any Pakistan captain as the imposition of emergency in Pakistan did for the Karachi Stock Exchange. However, from the morose, burdened expressions that rarely left his face over the span of five days, perhaps he needs reminding that even in defeat, Pakistan happened upon some light.
Indeed, compared to the first Test defeat under his captaincy - against South Africa in Karachi - the second Test defeat was almost a victory. Not quite, perhaps, but Pakistan fought harder and looked far more balanced than they did at any point against South Africa. That is some progress at least.
Belatedly, the reliance on spin has been ditched - it is not what has seen Pakistan through all these years - and hopefully, Malik has seen enough here to not fall back on it, unless conditions positively scream out for it. With effectively a second-choice pace attack, Pakistan battled until the very end and nobody will deny that had even one of Umar Gul and Mohammad Asif, or both, been around, the effort might have borne fruit. RP Singh and Sreesanth, India will argue, might have evened things out, but who would've made up for Shoaib Akhtar?
On the other hand India was also faild to through a big target at their first innings. Indian top order batsmen walked the same way like Pakistan. Only VVS Lakshman and M S Dhoni build a big partnership of 129 runs and they did 72 and 57 runs respectively. Only Dinesh Karthik failed to get run in both innings. S Ganguly and SR Tendulker also played well. Specially, in 2nd innings Ganguly played well as all-rounder by taking 2 wickets and 48 runs.
One Test is too little a time frame to judge anything, leave alone the complex art that is captaincy, but Kumble has already given a few indicators. Before the match, he had written about a document he was preparing for the side, a mission statement that would set the agenda. And by the end, it was clear that one side was responding far better to their leader than the other. Kumble himself made a big impact on the game, something that couldn't be said about Shoaib Malik, his counterpart who's been under fire.
Kumble entrusted Sourav Ganguly with the role of a genuine third seamer, bowling him for a long spell in the first innings and giving him the new ball in the second. He admitted that too much was being read into the latter move but revealed that it was one taken at the spur of the moment. "I just wanted to change ends to Munaf," he said. "I wanted to bowl that over but said, why not try Sourav. After a couple of balls from him, I decided to take the new ball. And he got two wickets. Then, when they were nine down, it was for me to finish it off."
Shoaib Akthar is successful bowler of Pakistan team. He got 6 wickets in 1st and 2nd innings, meanwhile Shoaib Akthar toke 4 wickets which Lost India of their 2nd innings. Danesh Kaneria and Shohel Tanvir also did good bowling.
Indian captain Anil Kumble got wicket all most. He toke 7 wickets in 2 innings and was selected man of the match. Zahir Khan, Harvajan Shing and Ganguly also did good bowling.
However in the upcoming 2nd test which team want be win they must be need to score more than 400 runs in their first innings.
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