4.05 pm Pakistan lost their last seven wickets for 62 runs. This after Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq had scored chanceless hundreds. For long periods in the day, Kane Williamson and his men were doing nothing more than hanging on, sometimes trying tactics such as bowling round the wicket and way down leg stump. It is the way of Test match cricket in the UAE. You can't afford to fall too far behind and you do everything you can to stop it. Eventually you get a wicket - Somerville's extra bounce did Azhar on 134 - and that was the opening New Zealand's spinners needed. And suddenly, with new batsman at the crease, this pitch began playing some tricks. Some balls spun big, others kept low, allowing Somervill and Ajaz Patel all the help they needed to lead a fightback

Omer: "Such below par performance after all the good work of Azhar and Asad. Sarfraz is really in poor form and still he could have saved this test by being little more aggressive but i assume he was trying to save his own wicket"

Mnkhan : "See what I said! Asad wicket was the turning point of the match. Very poor show by tail If new Zealand can score 200 , any chase above 125 would prove tricky for our collapsible lineup "

Lindsay Holmes: "Be surprised if you publish this, my name is not Ali or Asif. You underplayed how good a ball that was from Sommerville....an ARM ball is not supposed to spin. Very good ball to a tail ender!!!" Technically, it did turn. And it did turn the way a batsman expects an offspinner to make it turn. The skill - and I certainly do applaud it - is that it turns less than the batsman expects. It's the Herath/Jadeja special.

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