australia vs pakistan
At the end of the third day of the first Test match being played between Australia and Pakistan at the Perth ground, the host Australian team had reduced its catch to 300 runs. When the third day’s play started, Pakistan’s score was 132 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. After this, the Australian bowlers performed brilliantly and played an important role in giving their team a big lead on the basis of first innings by bundling out the first innings of the Pakistan team at a score of 271 in this match. At the end of the third day’s play, Australia had scored 84 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in their second innings. Steve Smith was unbeaten on 43 runs while Usman Khawaja was unbeaten on 34 runs.
Babar could not show his magic, lost 4 wickets in the first session
With the start of the third day’s play, Pakistan got the third blow on the score of 133 in the form of Khurram Shahzad who returned to the pavilion after scoring 7 runs. After this, everyone expected a big innings from Babar Azam, who came to bat, in which he also got a good start, but on the personal score of 21, Mitchell Marsh made Babar his victim and gave a big blow to Pakistan. After this, before lunch, Pakistan suffered two more big setbacks in which Imam Ul Haq scored 62 runs while Sarfaraz Ahmed returned to the pavilion after scoring only 3 runs. At the end of the first session, Pakistan team’s score was 203 runs at the loss of 6 wickets.
Australian bowlers wrapped up Pakistan’s first innings in the second session
The troubles for Pakistan did not subside even in the second session and they lost their 7th wicket at the score of 230 in the form of Saud Shakeel who returned to the pavilion after scoring 28 runs. After this, Agha Salman played an important role in taking the team score to 271 in the first innings by playing an inning of 28 runs in the lower order. In the first innings for Australia, Nathan Lyon was brilliant with the ball, taking 3 wickets, apart from this, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins took 2-2 wickets while Mitchell Marsh, Josh Hazlewood and Travis Head took 1-1 wicket.
Warner and Labuschagne returned to the pavilion early, Khawaja and Smith took over the innings.
The start of the second innings in this match was not good for the Australian team, in which David Warner, who had scored a century in the first innings, returned to the pavilion without opening the account, while Maransh Labuschagne also became the victim of Khurram Shahzad after scoring 2 runs. However, after this, Usman Khawaja and Steve Smith together did not allow the team to suffer any further setback till the end of the day’s play. While Australia has scored 84 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in their second innings, their lead has also reached 300. In such a situation, it is now looking very difficult for Pakistan to make a comeback in this match.
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