Reading its a green top wicket.
Fakhar Zaman is expected to play in place of Imam for his injury. Heard Fakhar’s name is stressed by the coach so he can increase the “run-rate”. Not sure since when a opener is added in test team just to increase the RR.
With shadab recovered it would be much better to have a complete spin wicket. Eitherway, good luck team! :k:
Green top favors the entire Pakistani line up, while only Khwaja benefits on the other side.
A bad day for Sarfraz haters as he scores 94 runs and takes a brilliant catch to start Aussies downfall.
Only other good batsman was Fakhar who also scored 94.
Three 0s in the middle order. Talk about collapse, that too against a spinner.
Lets see how it goes 2nd day. Pak will have to bowl and field tight. Once again batsmen havent given much room for them. I dont know how Mir Hamza will bowl but I feel Pak may fall one bowler short.
and sigh of relief for apnas :D ya Allah shukar ha Sarfraz nai aik tulla laga k mazeed 4,5 month k leay izzat bacha li. :P
Hafeez was unlucky. Else he may have scored.
Y Sarfraz through away his wicket.ge was playing so nicely. Shud not have done it. I believe he was much tired due to keep rotating strike. He and fakhar played with positive intent. In any case he should have stayed specially when yasir sjsh wS supporting well.
Hope test cricket will improve odi for fakhar zamaan.
batting of babar azam is not understandable in test. Wat happens to him ....
great catch by sarfraz
Abbas is proving yet again that he is developing a great asset for pk
apna's cricket revolves around apnas' sapnas :D everybody else is a hater lol.
Once again another poster on cricinfo was spot on predicting that Aussies will be bundled below 150 n pk will win this test
Brilliant bowling by Pakistan.
Abbas was the highlight. Amazing stats.
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BOWLING O M R W ECON WD NB
Mohammad Abbas
12.4
4
33
5
2.60
0
0
Bilal Asif helped. We cant say much about Mir Hamza not taking any wicket since he only bowled 9 overs and in a test debut, its wrong to expect him doing a miracle in a short spell.
A good 2nd inning start. Finally Azhar started scoring. Its a typical hafeez now. Scoring a century in one inning and mute for rest of the many. The best part for Pak is its only 2 days. Plenty of time so no need to rush. Give them as big of a target as they can.
This time S Ravi was one of the umpires, and three LBWs in Aussie inning. Last time two Richards were umpires.
Most stupid run out . Azhar Ali n shafiq were they sleeping....
Watch “Azhar Ali Runout | 2018 most bizarre runout” on YouTube
Seriously, what the heck was that? Were these two douchebags having a collective brain freeze at that moment? You won't see this kind of absolute sheer stupidity even at gully muhalla level cricket.
Other than that stupidest of all award winner runout, Pakistani batsmen did very well. However continue to get the victims of nervous ninetees. This time Babar Azam on 99.
Sarfraz had another solid knock of 81. :k:
Its a good target for Aussies but there are two big days left too. So they can choose to go for it. Pakistan needs to make sure there is no big partnership.
Congrats Mir Hamza on first wicket. No more dropped catches please 
Sadly, the two batsmen who were part of comedy run out are our top batsmen ! Azhar Ali is currently ranked 15 and Asad Shafiq at 21 !
Usman Khwaja probably may not play due to his knee… if he doesn’t play then good chance is that they’ll fold for Pakistan’s victory
kuddos to my apna sarfraz's captaincy :D
left post number #11](https://gupshup.org/forum/entertainment/cricket-and-other-sports/16642861-pak-v-s-aus-2nd-test-abu-dhabi?p=16643212#post16643212) where apna asad shafiq was also criticized, spewed “bashing” on next post, then again spewed “bashing” in a separate post only to target a non-apna azhar ali.
In this series pk batters missed many centuries. Shows they r mentally not so strong to go for big innings . Yk missed.
fakhar hopefully will be included in future as well.
Alhamdulillah pk win the match n series... gud . Keep it up pl. For t20 as well
