Pat commins two successive wickets.
Pakistan started the game fairly well in the first innings but two consecutive wickets from Pat Cummins managed to keep Pakistan under some pressure. Former Pakistan captain Babar Azam could not give anything for Pakistan in today's innings. Pat Cummins bowled out directly and went back to the dressing room.
Abdullah Shafiq (62) then Pakistan captain Shan Masood (53*) managed to score a half century. But if Pakistan could have maintained the consistency like the beginning, then today Pakistan could have fulfilled the target of 318 runs and given the lead.
Apart from Abdullah Shafique and Shan Masood no Pakistani player was able to score runs today and at stumps they have lost 6 wickets. Pakistan still trail by 124 runs and chances are rear that they will be able to make 318 runs. If Pakistan give Australia a lead of 70 to 80 runs in first innings then Australia have a bright chance on winning this too. Pakistan started the game fairly well in the first innings but two consecutive wickets from Pat Cummins managed to keep Pakistan under some pressure. Former Pakistan captain Babar Azam could not give anything for Pakistan in today's innings. Pat Cummins bowled out directly and went back to the dressing room.
Abdullah Shafiq (62) then Pakistan captain Shan Masood (53*) managed to score a half century. But if Pakistan could have maintained the consistency like the beginning, then today Pakistan could have fulfilled the target of 318 runs and given the lead.
Babar Azam once again failed to score runs, 36 runs in his 3 innings at Australia. It might be a good idea to try some new Batsmen in place of Babar Azam. Meanwhile Babar Azam can work to improve his performance.
This is the last test series of Warner and after this series, we will never see David Warner in international cricket. David Warner lost a wicket from the spin of Agha Salman and when the ball hit on the pitch so it bounced like a Top-spin and was a good length but Warner thought that it was on his foot but the ball was outside off and touched the edge of the bat of Warner and goes in the hands of Babar Azam.
Australia's top order batted well. Australia collected 318 runs in the first innings. Warner's innings stopped at 38 runs. I thought Warner would make the last test match of his career memorable and score a century. But he returned to the dressing room after collecting 38 runs.
As usual we are seeing poor batting from Pakistani batsmen today. Although opener Abdullah Shafique batted well, we did not see good batting from experienced batsmen like Babar, imam ul Haque and Saud Shakeel. At the end of the day, losing 6 wickets, Pakistan collected only 194 runs. Pakistan team is still behind by 124 runs. Pakistan will probably be able to collect around 250.
