Australia may snare the wicket of solely Imam-ul-Haq for 11 on the sluggish pitch earlier than Shafique and Azhar shared a gritty 70-run stand in two hours
Australia may snare the wicket of solely Imam-ul-Haq for 11 on the sluggish pitch earlier than Shafique and Azhar shared a gritty 70-run stand in two hours
In-form opening batter Abdullah Shafique and veteran Azhar Ali led Pakistan to 90-1 after Australia was bowled out for 391 on the second day of the third and closing Take a look at on Tuesday.
Sedate half-centuries by Cameron Inexperienced and Alex Carey earned them Australia’s highest sixth-wicket stand in Pakistan, value 135. However they have been damaged up after lunch and Australia was all out on the strike of tea.
Recalled 19-year-old quick bowler Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi shared eight wickets as Pakistan took Australia’s final 5 wickets for 50 runs.
“You must be affected person on such wickets the place you must look forward to the ball to get previous for reverse swing and get outcomes,” Afridi stated.
“You must give them (Inexperienced and Carey) credit score for batting very nicely within the first session, however that’s the fantastic thing about check cricket, you win some periods, you lose some periods.”
Australia may snare the wicket of solely Imam-ul-Haq for 11 on the sluggish pitch earlier than Shafique and Azhar shared a gritty 70-run stand in two hours. Shafique made an unbeaten 45 and Azhar reached 30 till play was referred to as off on account of dangerous mild 5 overs earlier than the scheduled finish.
Pakistan trailed by 301 runs within the series-deciding Take a look at.
Captain Pat Cummins had Imam trapped off his first supply from around the wicket when he switched bowling ends after Pakistan crawled to twenty runs within the first 12 overs.
Shafique scored his maiden Take a look at hundred within the drawn first Take a look at and adopted with 96 within the epic drawn second check.
Earlier, allrounder Inexperienced made 79 in his twelfth Take a look at match and Carey scored 67 in practically three hours in opposition to the persistent reverse swing from Naseem, who took 4-58, and Shaheen, who picked 4-79.
Naseem bowled his coronary heart out in 31 overs of relentless tempo and reverse swing in scorching situations as he and Afridi wrapped up Australia’s tailenders.
“He (Naseem) bowled very well all day, he was getting the ball to reverse fairly largely each methods,” Inexperienced stated.
“Sadly, only a lack of focus (by me) once you’ve been batting on the market for some time. I assumed I noticed the ball go away from me however it got here again in. That’s type of what you face over right here.”
Inexperienced and Carey got here collectively late Monday. With Australia on 232-5, they added 88 runs on Tuesday within the first session, when each reached their fifties.
Left-hander Carey efficiently overturned a controversial caught behind choice. Umpire Aleem Dar adjudged Carey out on 27 off Hasan Ali’s full-pitched supply, however video prompt the ball missed Carey’s bat and might need clipped the off stump as wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan caught the bumped ball.
Carey raised his second half-century on the tour off 73 balls when he smashed two successive boundaries in offspinner Sajid Khan’s one over earlier than pushing the ball to huge mid-on for a single.
Inexperienced, resuming on 20, reached his half-century off 117 balls when he drove previous a diving Sajid for 2 runs.
Pakistan broke them up within the fourth over after lunch.
Left-arm spinner Nauman Ali ended their stand when Carey was plumb leg earlier than wicket because the batter tried to play throughout the road and was hit on the entrance pad. Carey confronted 105 balls and dominated the spinners along with his reverse sweep photographs.
Inexperienced confirmed a lot of persistence and used his ft nicely in opposition to the spinners throughout his 163-ball knock that spanned nicely over 3 1/2 hours.
Naseem, who changed allrounder Faheem Ashraf in the one change to Pakistan from the second Take a look at, denied Inexperienced his maiden Take a look at hundred when he clear bowled the tall right-hander off a supply which formed into the batter and hit the stumps by way of an enormous hole between bat and pad.
