Ben Stokes strays too far, Mohammad Abbas enters from the shadows

Ben Stokes was hitting almost a foot out of his fold on the second day of the 1st Test to deny the possibility of being caught lbw by the Pakistani sewing bowlers but left a huge gap to be eliminated by Mohammad Abbas, the 30-year-old gamer. an old man who could become Pakistan’s ace in this series.

Stokes was eliminated by a duck, his first in England in 50 innings, his first since 2017. His dismissal left England reeling on 12/3, of which they rallied to place 92/4 late in the game on Thursday, behind 2. 3. 4.

The gatekeeper, Abbas, ended the day on 2/24.

Michael Vaughan had said before the test that the summer of 2020 could be remembered as Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah’s, like Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis of nearly three decades ago, but Abbas showed why it could turn out to be the deadliest of the season. Serie. due to its sewing movement. Both Naseem and Shaheen threw faster than Abbas on Day 2 but got less movement than him.

It was the scrambled seam that brought Stokes inside. Abbas pushed him forward and simply hit his outer edge with a late movement, the ball crashing against his stump. The ball drifted 1.8 degrees away from Stokes and turned 0.2 degrees inward, CricViz reported.

Abbas now has a record of 2 firings and 0 runs on the 12 balls he has thrown at Stokes.

In fact, on a tour of England in 2018, Abbas had been one of Pakistan’s most successful bowlers, with match figures of 8/64 at Lord’s.

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Wasim Akram said moments after the window: “What a story Abbas has! I was working in a tannery not long ago. In fact, he was able to play his first season in Pakistan after winning a draw against another player. Then two seasons, he took 61 and 71 wickets, and then Misbah ul Haq chose him for Pakistan in 2017. ”

Abbas, who made his West Indies debut three years ago, took a field with his second ball in test cricket, taking out Kraigg Brathwaite. He has chosen 75 plots in 18 Tests since then.

While he doesn’t have the pace of his younger peers, what makes him especially dangerous in England is that he usually sticks slightly to the right-handed hitter, making sure he gets them to play in nearly 80 percent of his deliveries. That could be the telling factor in this series.