Date-stamped : 02 Dec96 - 02:14 Day 1 Report- Electronic Telegraph Fleming plugs the leak By Qamar Ahmed in Rawalpindi NEW ZEALAND recovered from 87 for five to finish the first day of the second and final Test against Pakistan at the Rawalpindi Stadium in a relatively happier position having made 215 for eight before bad light stopped play with 17 overs remaining. The start of the match was delayed for 20 minutes after Pakistan had won the toss and put the tourists in because Pakistan Cricket Board officials had forgotten to deliver the match ball. Play was held up for another 22 minutes after tea because the sun was shining directly into the eyes of batsmen Lee Germon and Stephen Fleming. Germon, the captain, and Fleming salvaged New Zealand's innings with a stand of 81 for the eighth wicket. Fleming scored a flawless 67 with the help of 11 fours in 109 minutes, and Germon was unbeaten on 45. New Zealand lost Justin Vaughan for 12 and Adam Parore for three, both leg before, to the 20-year-old Test debutante Mohammad Zahid, who was included in the side along with medium pacer Mohammad Akram, for Waqar Younis and Saqlain Mushtaq. Then Bryan Young fell lbw attempting to sweep leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed, who thus became the ninth Pakistan player to take 100 wickets in Tests. After lunch Mushtaq, playing in his 26th Test, had Nathan Astle caught at the wicket playing a defensive shot and Mark Greatbatch taken at mid-on by Saeed Anwar off a wild hit. Then Chris Cairns succumbed as he offered a bat and pad catch to silly point, giving Mushtaq three wickets for 10 runs in seven overs. Chris Harris was leg before to Zahid, but it took a Mushtaq googly to dismiss Fleming, who was taken at the wicket, giving the leg-spinner, who had bowled unchanged since tea, five for 73. Source :: Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk) Day 2 report- Dawn Centurions Saeed, Ijaz set 2nd wkt mark in Test against N.Z. By Farhana Ayaz RAWALPINDI, Nov 29: A sparkling 262-run 2nd wicket partnership between skipper Saeed Anwar (130) and Ejaz Ahmed (125) has put Pakistan on the way to build a big first innings total with 269 for 2 here on the second day of the second Test against New Zealand at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Friday. New Zealand added 34 in 35 minutes of play before Mushtaq Ahmed celebrating his 100 victims in Tests and Test debutant Muhammad Zahid wrapped up the tourists first innings at 249 in 74 overs. Pakistan met an early setback when Chris Cairns sent back opener Zahoor Elahi (2) in the second ball of his first over with Pakistan at 6. Elahi hastily tried to play the ball coming on the stumps, giving a low catch to Steven Flemming in the first slip. With this failure, Zahoor's already delayed entry in the Tests appears to be going towards a swifter end. Striving for stability Ejaz Ahmed joined Saeed Anwar who was at 4 and the two bowed down to play with assurance and aggression in front of a large holiday crowd. For the crucial second wicket Saeed and Ejaz contributed an electrifying 262 runs on 394 balls in 266 minutes to put Pakistan in a strong position. This was a new record for the second wicket for Pakistan against New Zealand, eclipsing last December's 140 set by Ijaz and Rameez at Christchurch. In the post-lunch session, Saeed and Ejaz raced to complete their fifties with Ejaz being more brisk slicing 11 strokes to the fence. After staying at 41 for a while, left-handed Saeed smashed two consecutive square cuts against Justin Vaughan, later grabbed a single to reach 50 in 66 balls in 103 minutes. Ejaz's 52 came in 69 balls. The two posted 108 without further loss at lunch in 24 overs as none of the Kiwi bowlers could provide the break. The second session was a treat to watch as the two opened up to play shots all round the wicket. Another 111 runs were added in 30 overs before the tea. Left-handed Saeed, who played flowingly from the first ball, completed the fourth century of his career. He got it in 146 balls in 50 overs with the help of 16 fours. This is Saeed's 21 Tests. However, just before tea, the Pakistani skipper survived at 116 when Lee Germon dropped him off Chris Harris. By that stage, Saeed and Ejaz had crossed the 200 mark for the 2nd wicket partnership. Ejaz, batting at 91 at tea, returned to fire away exquisitely, especially he punished Nathan Astle with a couple of flashing boundaries. Appearing in his 38th Test, Ejaz completed his sixth century and second against New Zealand in 168 balls spanning 219 minutes. Ejaz made a century against the Kiwis at Faisalabad. Just when the formidable partnership was set to cross Pakistan's record of 291 runs for the second wicket, the bond was broken when umpire Javed Akhtar gave Ejaz (125) leg before to Cairns. Ejaz pointing out that he had played, walked back to the pavilion in disappointment. His dynamic innings included 19 attractive shots to the fence and one towering six off Dipek Patel in the 43rd over. His stay at the wicket consumed 266 minutes while he faced 266 balls. Chris Cairns turned out to be the only successful bowler. He claimed both the wickets of Zahoor and Ejaz for 67 runs in 14 overs. Dangerman Simon Doull remained wicketless with 64 runs in 15 overs. Saeed was batting at 130 while night watchman Mushtaq Ahmed was at 1 when play ended for the second day. With eight first knock wickets in hand and 20 runs lead, Pakistan look well set to build a good total before trying to bowl out the tourists for the second time. Earlier in the morning New Zealand resumed their first innings at 215 for 8. Kiwi skipper Lee Germon played career-best knock of 55, slamming eight boundaries in 135 balls. Keeper Moin took a simple catch off Zahid when New Zealand was 241. Nine runs later, Mushtaq lured Dipak Patel (21) to hit a big one and Ejaz Ahmed took a well-judged running catch. Mushtaq took six for 87 in 30 overs. Speedster Zahid finished with four for 64 runs in 21 overs. Play halted briefly after the dismissal of opener Zahoor Elahi when some one from the crowd sitting near the media centre threw a battery cell in the field. However, play resumed after that portion of the crowd was warned by the administration. Source:: Dawn (http://xiber.com/dawn/) Day 2 report Electronic Telegraph Anwar and Ijaz share in record stand By Qamar Ahmed in Rawalpindi PAKISTAN, with the help of a record second-wicket stand of 262 between Saeed Anwar and Ijaz Ahmed, were yesterday in complete control of the second and final Test against New Zealand at the Rawalpindi Stadium. In reply to New Zealand's first innings of 249, Pakistan, with five overs remaining for the day when play was called off because of bad light, had scored 269 for two. Anwar, the Pakistan captain, opened the innings with Zahoor Elahi and was still at the crease with nightwatchman Mushtaq Ahmed, having hit 19 fours in his 130. The other century-maker, Ijaz, was out in the penultimate over, having made 125 in the record stand, which passed the previous second-wicket partnership of 140 against New Zealand which he shared with Ramiz Raja at Christchurch in the one-off Test in 1995-96. After losing Elahi, caught at first slip by Stephen Fleming off Chris Cairns in the second over, Anwar and Ijaz flayed rather wayward New Zealand bowling to their heart's content. The two were past the hundred stand in 99 minutes and were together at 108 for one at lunch, having reached their respective fifties. Anwar's fourth Test century took him 204 minutes and 146 balls in which he hit 16 fours. This was his second against the Kiwis. His only blemish came at 115 when he edged Chris Harris to wicketkeeper Lee Germon, who spilled the catch with Pakistan on 216 for one. Immediately after tea Ijaz, on 91, struck two sizzling fours off Nathan Astle to cover and midwicket to get to 99 and in the same over he took a single to reach his sixth century in 219 minutes with 16 fours and a six off Dipak Patel. His dismissal at 268, when he was leg before to Cairns, was resented by the batsman who thought he had played the ball. Earlier, New Zealand, resuming at 215 for eight, added 34 more runs in 35 minutes before being all out. Germon, the captain, was caught at the wicket off Mohammad Zahid for 55, his first fifty in 10 Tests. He hit eight fours and put on 49 for the ninth wicket with Patel, who made 21 and was last out to Mushtaq, who finished with six for 87. Source :: Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk) Day 4 report, Electronic Telegraph Record for Zahid on debut By Qamar Ahmed in Rawalpindi PAKISTAN completed an emphatic victory by an innings and 13 runs against New Zealand in the second and final Test at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium to draw the Wills Series. The match was over a mere 53 minutes after lunch on the fourth day, when New Zealand, who were facing a first-innings deficit of 181, were shattered by 20-year-old medium-pacer Mohammad Zahid to be all out for 168 after having resumed at 69 without loss. Zahid, from Gaggu Mandi in the Punjab, near the village where Waqar Younis hails from, pulverised the Kiwis' batting by taking seven wickets for 66 to finish with match figures of 11 for 130 to secure the man of the match award and also become the first Pakistan bowler to capture 10 wickets or more on his debut. Of medium height but with a strong shoulder, Zahid started his rout with the first five of the six wickets that fell before lunch to reduce New Zealand to 137 for six. Moving the ball both ways and extracting a great deal of swing off the pitch, he was too hot to handle once Justin Vaughan was lbw for 27 after sharing an opening stand of 82 with Bryan Young. Adam Parore, dropped by Inzamam-ul-Haq in the slips off leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed when one, was Zahid's next victim, rapped on the pad in front of the wicket as the ball cut back. Young, the only player to bat with authority, hit 61, with six fours in 174 minutes, before slashing a catch to gully. When captain Lee Germon was deceived off a swinging yorker and Nathan Astle fell lbw, Zahid had taken five for 47 in 11 overs, his first five-wicket Test haul. Mark Greatbatch compounded the tourists' problems by forcing Mushtaq off the back foot to be caught by Saeed Anwar at cover off a deflection from a close fielder's boot. There was little resistance from New Zealand after lunch, as the last four wickets fell for only 34 runs. In the first over, Stephen Fleming, ill with stomach trouble, was caught at the wicket by Moin Kahn off Shahid Nazir. Later, Chris Cairns was bowled round his legs while sweeping Mushtaq when 11. Zahid wrapped up the innings by having Dipak Patel and Chris Harris lbw, the 28th lbw decision in the two-Test series. Source :: Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk) Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com)