Zimbabwe vs Pakistan: 2nd Test, Day 2 - Pakistan end the day on a positive note

Younis Khan looks all set for an extended stay at the crease again

Pakistan ended the day on a score of 163/3, with both Younis Khan, on 52*, and Misbah-ul-Haq, on 27*, at the crease after dismissing Zimbabwe for a score of 294.

The home team managed to add a valuable 54 runs to their overnight score of 237/8, courtesy of their last wicket pair- Tendai Chatara and Brian Vitori. Abdur Rehman finally broke their resilience by trapping Chatara LBW for 21 runs. Earlier Junaid Khan had dismissed Prosper Utseya to pick up his fourth wicket.

In reply, Pakistan lost Mohammad Hafeez early, edging a delivery angled across him by Brian Vitori to the slip region. Azhar Ali, failing to connect his flick shot to an incoming delivery from Tinashe Panyangara, was adjudged leg before wicket.

Khurram Manzoor reached his fifty, his third overall and the first in two Tests on his comeback to international cricket after getting dropped in January 2010 on the tour of Australia, in the last over before lunch as Pakistan went into the break with the scoreboard reading 95/2.

As the play resumed, Zimbabwe got the much needed breakthrough as Manzoor, setting off for a run, after tucking it to short square leg, which his partner Younis Khan was clearly not interested in, was run out by Chigumbura.

However, Younis and Misbah-ul-Haq put together an unbeaten 67-run partnership in the next 29.1 overs to end the day on a stronger note for Pakistan. Zimbabwe need to get rid of these two before they take the home team out of the game.