The Sri Lankan batsmen and the pitches have made it difficult for Pakistan's spinners to bring any meaningful harm to them and have come up with tons of runs to give bigger targets to Pakistan. Pakistan's spinners, specially ajmal are already feeling frustrated as the pitches are not providing them enough spin to show their spinning craftwork. Ajmal in the last test has been wicketless for 49 overs and have bagged only five wickets so far.
Pakistan's captain Misbah is feeling frustrated too as this is Pakistan's fifth series since trouncing England 3-0 almost two years ago, but they are yet to record another series win. Unless Pakistan's top order line play responsibly, the chances of winning the last test could become bleak.
We wait and watch hours from today and see whether Pakistan's batsmen have a resolve to win or throw away the thrid test too to the Islanders.
The probable opposing teams for the first test match at Abu Dhabi may be as under:
Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq*, Abdur Rehman, Adnan Akmal†, Ahmed Shehzad, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Junaid Khan, Khurram Manzoor, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Talha, Rahat Ali, Saeed Ajmal, Shan Masood, Umar Gul, Younis Khan
Sri Lanka: AD Mathews*, LD Chandimal, RMS Eranga, N Pradeep, MVT Fernando, HMRKB Herath, DPMD Jayawardene, HAPW Jayawardene†, FDM Karunaratne, KMDN Kulasekara, RAS Lakmal, MDK Perera, MDKJ Perera, KC Sangakkara, SMSM Senanayake, JK Silva
Umpires RA Kettleborough and S Ravi
The third test is scheduled for Jan 16-20, 2014 daily at (10:00 local | 06:00 GMT | 11:00 PKT) at Sharjah Cricket Stadium
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