Sohail Khan's comeback to remember

Sohail Khan, playing his first international since September 2011, ran in first ball and thought he had struck Shikhar Dhawan on the pad. His appeal was turned down, but Sohail was so confident he wanted a review immediately. Misbah-ul-Haq stepped in to calm down his charged up fast bowler, and refused to go for the review. Just as well, as replays showed the ball had come right off the bat. Two balls later, Sohail bowled a wide to Rohit Sharma, but he was so pumped up he walked a long way up the pitch towards the striker, and on his way back to his mark, also exchanged a few words with non-striker Dhawan.

Soon after he came in, Virat Kohli went for the pull in Shahid Afridi's first over. The ball ballooned up, but towards vacant deep midwicket. Yasir Shah charged to his right from long-on. He put in a dive too, but was in an awkward position as the ball dipped at his legs. He still got his hands down in time, but the ball popped out. It will go down as a drop, even though it was Yasir's incredible effort that had made a highly improbable chance look so close.

Umar Akmal had grimaced in disappointment when Yasir failed to latch on to the Kohli chance, but the wicketkeeper was to put down a simpler catch off the same batsman. Kohli had ticked along to 76 when the part-time left-arm spinner Haris Sohail had one dipping and turning to take the edge off a push. It was bouncing but it was not an alarming deviation off the bat. However, it only hit Akmal's gloves and rolled away.

Ravindra Jadeja drove one straight to extra cover in the 49th over. MS Dhoni instantly rushed for the single. Jadeja had to run now, but he was not even in the frame when Shahid Afridi, throwing slightly off balance, just missed at the non-striker's end. Jadeja was still so far out that there was time for Yasir to collect at midwicket and have another go. Even he failed to hit the target, although Jadeja might have just made it in case of a direct hit.

Haris edged Mohammed Shami to fine third man and wanted a second. He was well more than half way through it but Ahmed Shehzad was satisfied with one. The throw was to Dhoni, who could have easily lobbed it to the bowler's end but chose to half-collect, half-guide it onto the striker's stumps in his usual style. Dhoni had his back to Sohail, and later gestured that he did not hear anything in the din, if someone may have called for the ball to be relayed to the other end.