AUS vs PAK

AUS vs PAK: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq should now be in Sydney Test

New Delhi: The second Test match of the series played between Melbourne and Australia between Pakistan and Australia is over at the exciting turning point. At one stage this match was seen to be drawn, but Australian bowlers bowled brilliantly to put Pakistan in the final session of the fifth and final day at 163 runs. In this way, Pakistan's team were 18 runs behind the first innings lead and lost the series. Australia have made an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-Test series.

Australia declared their first innings on 624 runs in reply to Pakistan's 443 in the first innings. In this way, he got an important lead of 181 runs in Pakistan. It seemed that the match would be drawn, but the Australian bowlers gave one more blow after Pakistan and gave up the possibility of the result and finally captured the match. Fast bowler Mitchell Starc, who scored 84 runs in Australia's innings, hit the ball after bat and jumped four wickets. Apart from them, Nathan Lyon took three wickets and Josh Hazlewood took two wickets. Jackson Bird got a wicket.

Smith scored more than 1,000 runs in the third year

On the fifth day before lunch Australia captain Steve Smith scored an unbeaten 165. He has completed 1000 Test runs for the third year in a row. It was his fourth Test hundred of the 17th and the year. For most of the time rain was disrupted, the probability of getting the result of this match was not enough, but on the fifth and final day, the Australian batting first made great and then pushing Pakistan back on the back with a lot of bowling. Fast bowler Mitchell Starc hit an unbeaten 84 off the Australian wicket, with seven sixes in it.

No one except Azhar-Sarfaraz

Apart from Azhar Ali (43) in the second innings of Pakistan, Sarfraz Ahmed also scored 43, but none of the other batsmen could stand up to it. Azhar had scored 205 in the first innings. Younus Khan scored 24 runs. Pakistan's 5 wickets fell on 89 runs only. After that, the remaining five batsmen, 74 runs and adding pavilion, returned.

During the stumps on the fourth day Smith scored 100 runs and Mitchell Starc was unbeaten on seven and Australia made 465 runs for six wickets, while Usman Khawaja missed three runs from his century. He was able to add two runs in his 95-run score of 95 and in the fifth over, Wahab Riaz's ball was caught by wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed.

The Australians started playing at 278 for two in the morning on the fourth day and soon lost Khawaja's wicket. But after this Smith and Handskobe's pair did not succeed in the Pakistani team for a long time. Both of them shared 92 for the fourth wicket. The fourth blow to Australia was as Handscab (54), who became the victim of fast bowler Sohail. After that, the hosts lost Nick Madison (22) and Matthew Wade (9) wicket. Captain Smith completed his century with 168 balls with the help of nine fours.