Cricket TEST AT KARACHI

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29739, 5 February 1962, Page 15

Cricket TEST AT KARACHI

Century To Dexter (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) KARACHI. February 4. The England captain, E. R. Dexter, completed a century on the third day of the third test against Pakistan today. But the cricket was very slow and England, resuming at 219 for two. had added only 59 runs by lunch to be 278 for three. Dexter was 126 not out. having reached his century <ll fours) after batting for four hours 25 minutes. Nasim-ul-Ghani had taken all three English wickets. Second Day

Dexter and G. Pullar steered England towards a big total on the second day Taking few risks. England readied 219 for two during the day in’reply to the Pakistan first innings total of 253 It was mainly defensive cricket and England scored at no more than 40 an hour, but at least it should now have no fears about defeat. Pakistan, one down in the series, must win to share the rubber.

Faza.l Mahmood, opening the Pakistan bowling, appealed for leg-before against P. Richardson off the first three balls, but the batsman survived. Richardson and Pullar went on to give England a sound start with 77 for the first wicket. Richardson was out for 26 and Pullar went 30 runs later.

Then Dexter and M: Smith remained together for the last 170 minutes, sharing an unbroken partnership of 112. It was not an inspiring day’s cricket, for the 30.000 crowd The pitch appeared to be getting slower all the time and gave no help to the bowlers.

Smith made a better start than usual, but later went into his shell. After giving a difficult chance at slip when he had scored only one. Dexter made some good strokes through the covers.

Dexter parsed 2000 runs in test cricket when he reached 78, The third wicket stand reached 100 in 2hr 24min. Dexter himself had been batting three and a half hours by the close on the second day First Day Pakistan was saved from a complete collapse on the first day by a century from Alim-ud-Din and the stubborn resistance of the opening batsman, Hanif Mohammad. Alim-ud-Dih came to the wicket when Pakistan had lost four wickets for 56 runs He stayed for 226 minutes and hit 109. including 17 fours, before being eighth out with the total at 245 Pakistan was all out for 253 two minutes uefore the close

Hanif played a valuable supporting role with 67. including 10 fours, scored in 195 minutes He shared a fift'h-wicket stand of 92 with Alim-ud-Din. Both Hanif and Alim-ud-Din were helped by English fielding lapses. Each was dropped twice and three of the missed chances were far from difficult. England's ground fielding was excellent. Scores

PAKISTAN First Innings Hanif Mohammad, c Dexter, b Lock .. 67 Imtiaz Ahmed, b White 0 Saeed Ahmed, c Millman, b Knight .16 Javed Burki. c Millman. b Dexter .3 Mushtaq Mohammad, lbw. b Knight .14 Alim-ud-Din, c Lock. b Knight 109 Shuja-nd-Din, c Parfitt, b Allen 15 Nasim-ul-Ghani, b Barber 3 Fazal Mahmood, b Knight 12 Antao Dsouza. b Dexter . 3 Haseeb Ahsan. not out .. 4 Extras ..7 Total .. 253 Fall of wickets: one for 2, two for 25. three for 36, four for 56. five for 148. six for 183. seven for 196. eight for 245. nine for 248. Bowling O. .M. R. W. B R. Knight 19 4 66 4 D. W. White 3.4 0 12 1 B. R Dexter 18.2 4 48 2 P. A. Allen 27 14 50 1 R. W r . Barber 14 1 44 1 G. A. R. Lock 14 8 26 1 ENGLAND First innings P. Richardson, c Alim-ud-Din. b Nasim-ul-Ghani 26 G. Pullar. r Alim-ud-Din. b Nasim-ul-Ghani .. 60 E. Dexter, not out . 126 M. Smith, c Imtiaz. b Nasim-ul-Ghani .56 P. Parfitt, not out .. 5 Extras . 5 Total for 3 wkts. 278 Fall of wickets: one for 77, two for 107, three for 250.