Shaheen Shah Afridi and Mir Hamza take two wickets every within the second Check at Melbourne Cricket Floor
Pakistan on Thursday destroyed the highest order of Australia as Shaheen Shah Afridi and Mir Hamza took two wickets every within the second Check performed at Melbourne Cricket Floor.
Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, David Warner and Travis Head wickets fell in fast succession as a defiant Pakistan battled exhausting to remain within the second Check Thursday after Pat Cummins took 5 wickets to dismiss them for 264.
Cummins ended with 5-48, whereas Nathan Lyon grabbed 4-73 after Pakistan´s tail wagged in Melbourne to slim the hosts´ first-innings result in 54.
It left the Australians with a difficult 15 minutes of the morning session to barter, which they did not do miserably as they slumped to 6-2 at lunch.
Khawaja was out for a duck second ball, caught behind by Mohammad Rizwan off Shaheen Shah Afridi.
The identical mixture struck once more on the final ball earlier than lunch, when Labuschagne edged down the legside to be out for 5, which left David Warner the not out batsman on one on the break.
Pakistan had regarded snug in reaching 124-1 as they chased Australia’s first-innings 318.
However an electrical spell from Cummins within the remaining session on Wednesday noticed them collapse to 194-6, and he was on the coronary heart of the motion once more on Thursday.
After drizzle delayed the beginning by 45 minutes, they resumed 124 runs adrift with Rizwan on 29 and Aamer Jamal not out two.
Wicketkeeper Rizwan picked forward of Sarfaraz Ahmed for his batting prowess, made a assured begin.
However he was no match for a canny Cummins, who tempted him right into a drive that flew straight to David Warner who had simply been moved to cowl from slip.
Rizwan was gone for 42 to finish a 45-run partnership with Jamal, who began to play photographs with new companion Afridi as they chipped away on the lead.
An enterprising Afridi crunched 4 boundaries earlier than he was undone by Lyon´s spin, trapped lbw for 21.
Jamal regarded in good contact, discovering the ropes thrice in six balls at one level in his 33 not out.
Cummins grabbed his fifth wicket to dismiss Hasan Ali for 2 with a supply that took out his off stump.
Lyon then had Mir Hamza stumped for 2 to gather his 505th Check wicket.
— With extra enter from AFP