PAK vs AUS, Day 3 LIVE: Openers David Warner and Usman Khawaja gave a terrific start to Australia as they shared a 100-run opening stand in their first innings on Day 3 of the first Test against Pakistan at Rawalpindi on Sunday. Both the batsmen slammed fifties to end a successful first session for Australia with the score at 138/0. Pakistan declared their first innings after putting 476 on the board. Their plan to let the Australian openers face the new ball in the last session under dying lights didn’t work out as planned yesterday as bad light forced Pakistan to bowl only one over with spinner Sajad Khan. Follow InsideSport.In for more updates.
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Trail by 338 runs@Uz_Khawaja 70*@davidwarner31 60*🇵🇰 476-4d#BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/60Jdl35ypd
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FOUR! Khawaja plays a perfect sweep shot to take the ball to deep-midwicket boundary.
FOUR! Labuschagne flicks off the leg to fine-leg fence
FOUR! Labuschagne cuts it to backward point for a boundary.
FOUR! Marnus Labuschagne gets off the mark with a perfect cover drive
WICKET! Sajid Khan gets the first breakthrough for Pakistan as Warner gets bowled for 68
Day 3 Session 2
End of Session 1 – Pakistan 138/0
FOUR! Warner cuts it to bring up the thrd boundary in the over.
FOUR! Warner flicks it through Dine-leg to hit back-to-back boundaries.
FIFTY! Warner cuts it through point to bring up his fifty.
FOUR! Khawaja sweeps through square-leg for a boundary.
FOUR! Khawaja cuts it past slip to third-man boundary.
FIFTY! Khawaja brings up his fifty
FOUR! Khawaja gets down to the pitch of the ball and smashes Sajid Khan straight down the ground for a boundary.
FOUR! Warner hits another short delivery through cover to get back-to-back boundaries.
FOUR! Warner cuts Naseem Shah’s delivery through point for a boundary.
FOUR! Khawaja brings up the fifty run partnership with a boundary at deep square leg.
FOUR! Khawaja hits consecutive boundaries with a beautiful straigh drive.
FOUR! Flicks a fullish delivery on the leg stump towards back of square.
DROPPED! Khawaja edges one straight to gully off Shaheen Afridi where Fawad Alam drops a sitter.
FOUR! Warner punches through the off-side to get a boundary.
FOUR! Khawaja cuts it through backward point to collect a boundary.
FOUR! Naseem Shah bowls a bouncer. Khawaja takes his eyes off it and guides it to square boundary.
FOUR! Khawaja drives it to mid-off with a perfect timing.
FOUR! First boundary of the innings for Australia. Warner gets an edge that flew wide of gully.
Naseem Shah to start the day with the ball.
Australian Openers David Warner and Usman Khawaja walk out to bat.
Day 3 Session 1
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdullah Shafique | c Cummins b Lyon | 44 | 105 | 145 | 3 | 1 | 41.90 | ||
| Imam-ul-Haq | lbw b Cummins | 157 | 358 | 529 | 16 | 2 | 43.85 | ||
| Azhar Ali | c Green b Labuschagne | 185 | 361 | 535 | 15 | 3 | 51.24 | ||
| Babar Azam (c) | run out (Labuschagne) | 36 | 82 | 116 | 3 | 0 | 43.90 | ||
| Mohammad Rizwan † | not out | 29 | 46 | 64 | 3 | 0 | 63.04 | ||
| Iftikhar Ahmed | not out | 13 | 21 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 61.90 | ||
| TOTAL | (162 Ov, RR: 2.93) | 476/4d | |||||||
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Fall of wickets: 1-105 (Abdullah Shafique, 33.6 ov), 2-313 (Imam-ul-Haq, 120.5 ov), 3-414 (Babar Azam, 147.1 ov), 4-442 (Azhar Ali, 155.4 ov) |
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PAK vs AUS, Day 3 LIVE: Australia batters have uphill task on Day 3 after Pakistan score 476 – Follow LIVE Updates
So far in the first innings, the pitch didn’t had much to offer as it was entirely a flat deck on which the Pakistan batsmen racked up runs. Resuming the day at 245/1 Imam-ul-Haq and Azhar Ali continued from where they left off. The duo shared 200-run partnership as Imam-ul-Haq converted his maiden century into 150 with a brilliant flick down the leg side. The pair went into lunch with the score at 302/1.
PAK vs AUS, Day 3 LIVE: Australia batters have uphill task on Day 3 after Pakistan score 476 – Follow LIVE Updates
Immediately after the break, Australian captain Pat Cummins finally got the breakthrough as he dismissed Imam-ul-Haq for 157 by trapping him LBW. Azhar Ali however continued his brilliant batting by scoring his 19th Test ton. Babar Azam joined Azhar at the middle and Babar was keen to improve the run rate and started playing his beautiful drives. Azhar too soon joined the skipper as he started hitting a flurry of boundaries and reached 150. The duo went into Tea with the score at 394/2.
In the third session, Australia finally managed to break the partnership, that was starting to build, with a moment of brilliance from Marnius Labuschagne at the field. He dismissed Babar Azam run out with a direct throw. Azhar Ali was then dismissed for 181 by Labuschagne when he induced a reverse sweep from the batsmen. Iftikhar Ahmed and Mohammad Rizwan took Pakistan to 476/4 before Babar Azam declared the innings.
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