Leg-spinners Shahid Afridi and Danish Kaneria both took key wickets as Pakistan checked England's progress in the first Test at Lord's on Sunday.
LONDON: Leg-spinners Shahid Afridi and Danish Kaneria both took key wickets as Pakistan checked England's progress in the first Test at Lord's here on Sunday.
England, at tea on the fourth day of this four match series, were 154 for four in their second innings - a far from impregnable lead of 237 - with acting captain Andrew Strauss 74 not out and Ian Bell, one of three first innings century-makers, unbeaten on four.
But both Kevin Pietersen (41) and Paul Colingwood, who’s Test-best 186 was the centrepiece of England's first innings 528 for nine declared, had been undone by spin on a wearing pitch.
Earlier, England wrapped up Pakistan's first innings after Mohammad Yousuf completed a superb double century.
Yousuf was last man out for 202 as Pakistan finished on 445 - a deficit of 83 runs.
England, 51 for one at lunch after Marcus Trescothick played on to Umar Gul, saw the fast bowler strike again when Alastair Cook (four), who scored a Test-best 105 first time around, mistimed a pull and gave Yousuf a simple catch at mid-on.
Pietersen took a watchful 14 deliveries to get off the mark but did so with a cover-driven boundary off Gul. Next ball he played an even better shot to drive the bowler straight.
Strauss, on his Middlesex home ground and leading England in a Test for the first time, was equally assured with a square cut four off Kaneria taking the left-hander to a 69-ball fifty.
But Pakistan then struck twice in 11 balls to reduce England to 146 for four. First Afridi, the quicker of the two leg-spinners, lured Pietersen down the pitch and Kamran Akmal completed a stumping.
Then Collingwood fell for three when he got a leading edge after trying to turn Kaneria leg side and gave Salman Butt at mid-off an easy catch.
Yousuf's innings was the highest Test score by a Pakistan batsman at Lord's, surpassing Mohsin Khan's 200 made in 1982.
It was the 31-year-old's fourth Test double hundred and second in as many matches against England after he'd made 223 at Lahore in December.
And it also meant Yousuf was now only the second Pakistani after batting great and current tour manager Zaheer Abbas (274 at Edgbaston in 1971 and 240 at The Oval in 1974) to make two Test double centuries against England.
Yousuf, known as Yousuf Youhana before his conversion last year from Christianity to Islam, had also matched the 2003 achievement of South Africa's Graeme Smith (277 at Edgbaston and 259 at Lord's) in making double centuries in successive Tests against England.
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