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Tigers roar on Day 1

HASAN MASOOD from Karachi
A century stand between Habibul Bashar and Hannan Sarkar helped Bangladesh to a decent total against hosts Pakistan in the first Test at the Karachi National Stadium yesterday.
They put on 114 runs for the second wicket in Bangladesh's impressive total of 278-9 in 83 overs before bad light forced an early finish to the first day's play. It was Bangladesh's highest Test score against Pakistan.
The effort of the Tigers earned a fare amount of respect from the home team, but it could have been even better had the batsmen not thrown the initiative away by playing some loose shots after doing the spadework.
Although Pakistan captain Rashid Latif wore a smile after putting the tourists in in overcast conditions, it was Bangladesh who dominated the first two hours, proving the pundits wrong.
Bangladesh did suffer an early setback when Javed Omar was comprehensively fooled by a full length delivery in the fourth over, giving debutant right-arm seamer Umar Gul his first Test wicket.
But Javed's departure with the score on nine brought out the best from Bangladesh, as Bashar joined Hannan to take the attack to the vaunted Pakistani pace attack, spearheaded by tear-away Shoaib Akhter.
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Australia once again showed their class by playing with absolute ease.
The stand however was broken just after lunch when Hannan was caught down the leg off a rising ball from Shabbir Ahmed after scoring a solid 41. The 21-year old right hander was unlucky not to achieve his third consecutive Test fifty as a rising delivery just brushed his gloves as he tried to leaveit.
Hannan batted for 146 minutes and hit five boundaries on way to his 41 off 106 balls
But Hannan's departure could not dampen the appetite of an aggressive Bashar, who threw his wicket away in the next over.
Bangladesh's most successful batsman was brilliantly caught by a diving Mohammad Hafiz at cover off Shoaib Akhter after unnecessarily slashing at a short ball pitched outside off stump. Bashar's blistering knock of 71 off just 72 balls lasted 130 minutes. He hit 12 boundaries.
Afterwards, the middle-order failed to cash in on the bright start. Sanwar Hossain was Akhter's second victim when he was adjudged lbw to the fast bowler for 15, leaving Bangladesh on a shaky 146 for four. Debutant Rajin Saleh put in a gutsy knock to steady the ship with a promising 26. But he played one shot too many, trying to whack Danish Kaneria across theline.
In the end, it was a 55-run sixth wicket stand between Alok Kapali and Khaled Mashud that helped Bangladesh cross the 250-mark.
Kapali, the all-rounder from Sylhet, made a fluent knock of 46 off 106 balls before Kaneria had him caught at mid-off off a mishit.
Captain Khaled Mahmud started well, scoring 10 runs off the very first over he faced. But having reached 14 off 12 balls, he needlessly played at a ball from Kaneria and edged it to slips.
Kaneria, who had taken 25 wickets in his previous three Tests against Bangladesh, was once again the most successful bowler of the day with three for 58 from 21 overs.
Pakistan captain Rashid Latif suffered an injury on the ring finger of his right hand while trying to stop a delivery from Umar Gul in the 71st over.
He was rushed to a local hospital, but X-ray confirmed there was no fracture.