Pakistan 緩和する into England 小旅行する at Somerset as Mohammad Amir watches Younis 旅宿泊所 and Asad Shafiq 支配する with the bat?

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Mohammad Amir was 要求するd to do little other than sit in the Taunton dug-out and watch on his return to England as Pakistan began their 小旅行する with a gentle day’s batting against Somerset’s cosmopolitan second-string attack.

Only when he warmed-up, almost 不明な, by bowling on the 外野 before the game and at lunch was Amir spotted on a 静める 開始 day before the 嵐／襲撃する of a 実験（する） series where he will be 支配する to the 最大の scrutiny.

It was to Taunton where Pakistan, 含むing their 不名誉d young spearhead, decamped six years ago after a Lord’s 実験（する） where Amir and Mohammad Asif had bowled no-balls to order on the 指示／教授／教育 of captain Salman Butt.

Mohammad Amir was barely seen on the 開始 day of Pakistan's 小旅行する of England at Somerset

With Pakistan batting first against a second-string Somerset, Amir warmed up at the lunch interval

Younis 旅宿泊所 ended unbeaten on 99 as Pakistan moved の上に 324 for five at the の近くに of play

And it is in Somerset that Amir, older and hopefully much wiser after serving time in 刑務所，拘置所 and 存在 banned from cricket for five years, will reacquaint himself with the English audience who will 最終的に pass judgment on him.

Not that Pakistan’s batsmen were in any hurry to 急ぐ Amir 支援する as, with the exception of captain Misbah-ul-Haq, they 大部分は filled their boots against a home attack 含むing a Scotsman, Dutchman and a South African-born Englishman.

It was another 上級の 国民 of the Pakistan line-up in 38-year-old Younis 旅宿泊所 who made the most of the absence of Jamie and Craig Overton and 吊りくさび Gregory with an unbeaten 99 in a 共同 of 179 with Asad Shafiq that enabled Pakistan to 回復する from 132 for four to finish on 324 for five.

But Misbah, a 重要な batsman who has very little experience of red-ball cricket in England, 行方不明になるd out as he fell for a duck to the Pietermaritzburg-born Tim Groenewald, who took two wickets in three balls.

There were also two wickets for the Dutchman Paul 先頭 Meekeren while the Scotsman in Josh Davey was unlucky to 結局最後にはーなる wicketless after seeing two chances go 負かす／撃墜する off his bowling and almost snaring Mohammad Hafeez lbw.

旅宿泊所 株d a 共同 of 179 with Asad Shafiq to pull Pakistan out of trouble when they were 132 for four