Earlier, Australia resumed their first innings at the overnight score of 5 without loss in one over and it took very little time for Warner and especially Khawaja to unleash hell on Pakistani bowlers, this correspondent had earlier warned Pakistani team management had badly missed the trick by opting to enter the match against such mighty opponents with only 4 bowlers with Iftikhar as more off batting al-rounder, but no heed was paid, despite the fact, the Sunday morning was highly in favour of...
Khawaja was especially highly fortunate as first Fawad dropped a dolly catch and then it was Muhammad Rizwan’s turn to give another charm life to the left handed opener, while on the other hand, Warner was mostly living under Khawaja’s shadows, as the Pakistani born left hander was dealing in boundaries, but once Khawaja entered into 70s, he started to consume more dot deliveries, while the introduction of Iftikhar gave Warner license to kill, as the flamboyant lefty, hit three boundaries of...
Smith joined Labuschagne at the crease, as we all know, Smith takes time before settling down and there were few butterflies in Smith’s stomach, but Smith negotiated Shaheen and Naseem well, both Shaheen and Naseem had glared at Aussie pair, but like we know, Labuschagne and Smith are masters when it comes to mind games, both were not bothered about Pakistani pacers tactics.
Labuschagne played some wonderful shots to complete his maiden 50 on Pakistani soil, while Smith was looking comfortable, just when bad light comes into play; floodlights were fully functional, but after only few overs, slight drizzle also started and light was also not good to continue play and umpires call it the day, but not before Labuschagne was unbeaten at 69 with the help of 9 fours and Smith was batting at 24 with 3 boundaries, both were involved in 68 runs third wicket unbroken stand,...
Australia scored 266 runs on day-2 in 72 overs with the run rate of 3.