Low scoring Test in the offing

Prasad took two of three wickets that fell tothe pacemen and relentlessly kept the batsmen under pressure with his accurate wicket-to-wicket bowling and lateral movement off the seam.

Kumble ended up the chief wicket-taker with figures of four for 75 and he was ably assisted by the young inexperienced Harbhajan Singh, who showed those who were interested that Saqlain does not hold the copyright for the topspinner that runs on with the arm instead of biting and turning sharply.

This entire Test series has been a low scoring affair so far and this Test match is heading in the same direction. Partly because of the outstanding bowling available to both teams in this series and partly due to the unfriendly nature of the pitch towards the batsmen. But there have been a few shots over the last couple of days that the concerned batsmen would not care to watch on the replays. Ramesh would have been disappointed with his effort when on 60 yesterday, and I would think, so would Shahid Afridi when he was dismissed by Harbhajan.

Day two has ended with Indiacertainly in a commanding position, having only lost one wicket in compiling 46 runs during their brief stay at the wicket and it will take another Herculean task from the Pakistani bowlers to get them back into the game. But who knows? Tomorrow will tell.