Spare a thought for the Pakistani bowlers

In Shoaib's absence, it was always going to be difficult to bowl South Africa out with just 3 specialist bowlers, Mohammad Asif, Kaneria and Mohd. Sami. Pakistan usually plays the allrounder, Abdul Razzak, but since he's been injured, the team management have opted to play 4 strike bowlers and an extra batsmen in this series. This is always a bit risky, in case one of the bowlers gets injured, as in the case of Shoaib. I believe this has even happened before, last year with Shoaib as well I believe.

Anyway, what an splendid performance! A glance at the number of overs indicates the incredible amount of effort that they put in. They had to shoulder the added burden and they did so effectively. Hats off to Kaneria, Sami and Asif.

Here is the Pakistani bowling scorecard from the second innings of the second test match against South Africa. Swiped from Cricinfo...

	Bowling	O											M									R				W								Econ
	Mohammad Asif	38											16									76				5								2.00	(2nb)
	Mohammad Sami	29											5									90				1								3.10	(4nb)
	Danish Kaneria	51.2											14									105				4								2.04
	Imran Farhat	7											0									20				0								2.85
	Mohammad Hafeez	8											0									32				0								4.00