Date-stamped : 12 Jul96 - 02:17 Tour Match Minor Counties v The Pakistanis Stone 11 July 1996 ====> REPORT Tour Match: Sohail makes bowlers suffer By Norman Harris at Stone The Pakistanis (310-7) bt Minor Counties (140-8) by 170 runs SOMEHOW one cannot imagine the Indians playing like this: simply enjoying slogging, like youths against small boys. Yet in an in- finitely one-sided contest there were also a few moments where dreams came true for a couple of the boys. One was Stewart Laudat, whose medium pace induced the talented Shadav Kabir - hard-working on this occasion - to slash to square cover. Next ball sent back a highly crestfallen Ijaz Ahmed from a thin edge. But these successes stood in stark contrast to the suffering of other bowlers, especially in a brutal half-hour which produced 86 runs between the 20th and 28th overs. While Aamir Sohail`s free innings was reaching a crescendo, Inzamam-ul-Haq began with no thought to the niceties of getting established. His bat sounded flat and, being plain, seemed almost like a child`s implement, but the ball went through fieldsmen, if they were in the way, or over them as four balls of left-arm spin from Laurie Potter went for 4, 4, 4, 6. Potter was withdrawn and soon Inzamam, having made 41 in 28 balls, simply walked off "retired ill" after a "dizzy spell" was cited. Sohail seemed to be affected with the same dizziness, ex- cept that he did not retire. He simply slogged most balls or, on a slow pitch, found some very resourceful ways of getting the bat to those which would have escaped others, before perishing on 133. The defending of 310 was never likely to stretch the Pakistani pace and spin. Only the first two balls hinted at a miracle. The first went for four, the second spooned to backward cover but was dropped. Source :: Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk) Contributed by Shash (shs2@*.cwru.edu)