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Black Caps quicker Neil Wagner took a wicket while bowling with a fractured toe on the third day of Test 1 against Pakistan, combining with his teammates to reduce the visitors to 112-6 in tea in response to the hosts’ first innings. 431 total.
Wagner was cleared to continue bowling after breaking his fourth toe on his right foot when he was hit by a ball from Shaheen Shah Afridi while batting on the second day, provided he could tolerate the pain.
He had Fawad Alam caught behind hooking a short ball on his seventh over, during the second session, after his sewing partners Trent Boult, Kyle Jamieson and Tim Southee made breakthroughs in the morning to put the Black Caps on top in Bay Oval on Mount Maunganui. .
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New Zealand’s Neil Wagner hits on the second day of Test 1 against Pakistan. He has a broken toe, but he will continue to play.
Jamieson was the first to strike on day three after taking the first wicket at the end of day two, pitching Abid Ali for 25 after Pakistan had added just nine runs to their nightly total of 30-1 in the first 12 overs of the day.
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Boult then claimed his first wicket when he had night watchman Mohammad Abbas caught in the first slip by Ross Taylor, the Black Caps veteran’s 150th test catch, by five.
Southee got in the act 20 minutes before tea, getting Azhar Ali to jab one out of the five and give BJ Watling a catch behind stumps, but only after the Black Caps reviewed the original decision not to come out.
Four balls later he took out Haris Sohail, who sent a catch to Henry Nicholls in the ravine and was on his way for three.
Those lands were Southee’s 297 and 298 in testing, putting him two short of joining Sir Richard Hadlee and Daniel Vettori as the only New Zealanders to take 300.
Wagner was the first man to attack in the second session, which was interrupted twice by rain. The second time, at 3.36pm, there was even a little hail, and the tea break was brought forward, which had been delayed from 3.40pm to 4.00pm.
He received treatment from Black Caps physio, Tommy Simsek, after taking the foot blow on Sunday, but he kept going and was last out at 19.
He was initially not with his teammates when they took to the field, but after sending a few deliveries on the nets, he was allowed to join them, throwing three overs before the stumps.
On Monday morning, a Black Caps spokesperson said: “An X-ray has confirmed a nondisplaced fracture of Neil Wagner’s fourth toe, but a doctor has cleared him to play as long as he can tolerate pain.
