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  • Pakistan recuperate to limit Australia to 232-5 in third Test

    Pakistan recovered from dropped catches to limit Australia to 232-5 and deny Usman Khawaja a second consecutive century on Day 1 of the third and remaining take a look at on Monday.

    Fast bowler Naseem Shah, the one Pakistan change from the second drawn take a look at at Karachi, picked up 2-36 to steer a fightback within the final session after Australia received the toss and opted to bat on one other sluggish and low-bouncy wicket.

    Cameron Green was unbeaten on 20 and Alex Carey was not out on 8 when unhealthy gentle stopped play two overs earlier than the scheduled shut.

    The Pakistan-born Khawaja, who scored 160 and 44 not out at Karachi and 97 runs within the opening take a look at draw, fell for 91 when Babar Azam plucked a superb one-handed shin-high catch within the slip.

    Stumps! Day 1 for 🇵🇰 #BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/p6GF3AuryK

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 21, 2022

    Khawaja batted for practically 5-1/2 hours for his resilient 219-ball knock earlier than he tried to flick off-spinner Sajid Khan (1-65) to mid-wicket. But the ball spun away sharply and took the thick exterior fringe of the bat.

    Naseem was lastly rewarded for his disciplined bowling when he had Steve Smith (59) trapped leg earlier than wicket and in addition discovered the skin fringe of Travis Head (26).

    Amazing stuff from @iNaseemShah! #BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/Cy5J7r0jMu

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 21, 2022

    Smith confronted 169 balls and hit six fours earlier than he was undone by Naseem’s supply, which got here again sharply and hit the batter’s knee in entrance of the stumps.

    Head’s below-par sequence continued and regardless of getting a reprieve on 7 when Sajid couldn’t seize a chest-high catch of his personal bowling, he couldn’t final lengthy sufficient.

    Khawaja and Smith had revived Australia from the early jolt of Shaheen Shah Afridi (2-39) with a 138-run stand in virtually 4 hours earlier than Pakistan hit again with three late wickets.

    Babar, oh Babar!
    Phenomenal effort by the skipper and @SajidKhan244 will get the prize. #BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/Nzfye4YxTe

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 21, 2022

    Left-arm quick bowler Afridi had picked up two wickets in his second over to chop Australia to 8-2 earlier than Khawaja and Smith thwarted Pakistan.

    Khawaja didn’t rating a boundary over the primary hour and in addition survived a pointy probability on 12 when Azam couldn’t get down in time to carry onto an edge within the slip.

    Smith additionally had an early escape on 19 when left-arm spinner Nauman Ali couldn’t maintain onto a pointy return catch instantly after Khawaja’s edge slipped underneath Babar’s palms.

    Yep, that’s out ☝🏼 @iNaseemShah’s hardwork pays off. #BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/x0dXXxPlMY

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 21, 2022

    Pakistan’s quick bowlers bowled briefly spells however each Smith and Khawaja negated the reverse swing on a flat wicket with mercury hovering round mid-30 levels Celsius (95 levels Fahrenheit).

    Earlier, Smith and Khawaja led Australia’s restoration and carried the guests to 70-2 by lunch earlier than including additional 75 runs within the second session.

    David Warner (7) was pinned on his crease by a supply which seamed again into the left-hander, beat the bat and struck his pads. Warner didn’t go for a tv referral.

    Marnus Labuschagne then bought his second duck within the sequence when he drove recklessly in the identical over and bought a skinny exterior edge.

    Make some 𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒔𝒆 🙌🏼 #BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/2Sk8aRie7d

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 21, 2022

    Pakistan went with the additional tempo possibility within the bowling assault and included Naseem rather than all-rounder Faheem Ashraf.

    Australia retained the identical XI which toiled for practically 172 overs on the final two days of the second take a look at however couldn’t drive a win at Karachi, the place Babar performed a marathon innings of 196.

    Australia’s historic first tour of Pakistan in 24 years has added significance going into the sequence decider.

    Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium is internet hosting its first take a look at in 13 years since a terrorist assault on the Sri Lanka group’s bus in 2009 that led to a prolonged absence of worldwide cricket in Pakistan.

    No gamers within the beginning XI have performed a take a look at match on the Gaddafi Stadium, the place Babar made his one-day worldwide debut towards Zimbabwe in 2015 when Pakistan began its marketing campaign to win again the boldness of international groups and the resumption of worldwide cricket.

    Azhar Ali is probably the most senior cricketer within the Pakistan XI, having performed 93 assessments, however is that includes in his first take a look at in his hometown.

  • Pakistan bundled out for 148, Australia extends result in 489

    Mitchell Starc snapped up three wickets to assist Australia take full management towards a drained Pakistan aspect on the third day of the second check on Monday.

    Pakistan, replying to Australia’s big first-innings complete of 556-9 declared, was bowled out for simply 148 after having spent greater than two days toiling within the discipline.

    Australia, touring Pakistan for the primary time since 1998, then determined to not implement the follow-on because it raced to 81-1 in 17 overs by the shut — a lead of 489 runs.

    Marnus Labuschagne was unbeaten on 37 and first-innings centurion Usman Khawaja was not out on 35.

    Stumps and the Golden Hour at NSK bid farewell to Day 3. #BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/5ubaJ0KK8e

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 14, 2022

    Earlier, last-wicket pair Nauman Ali (20 not out) and Shaheen Afridi (19) shared a stand of 30, the very best of Pakistan’s innings, earlier than debutant Mitchell Swepson (2-32) trapped Afridi lbw with a full supply.

    Starc didn’t take a wicket on a dull pitch within the drawn first check in Rawalpindi, however this time Pakistan was undone by some excellent reverse swing from the left-arm quick bowler.

    Captain Babar Azam (36) top-scored earlier than holing out at lengthy off towards leg-spinner Swepson.

    That’s stumps! There might be a sigh of aid after a troublesome day at work and a glimmer of hope from Day 4. #BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/k7uJhEtBqP

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 14, 2022

    Australia was sensible within the discipline. Labuschagne hit the stumps to expire Hasan Ali whereas Swepson did likewise to take away Abdullah Shafique.

    Starc eliminated Azhar Ali and Fawad Alam with successive deliveries, and in addition made a profitable tv referral towards Sajid Khan after he edged to the wicketkeeper.

    Shaheen opinions however it’s wrapped up! #BoysReadyHain l #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/NrKuzn25HD

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 14, 2022

    Pakistan misplaced six wickets between lunch and tea for simply 62 runs.

    Pat Cummins (34 not out) helped add a fast 51 runs at the beginning of the day after Australia resumed on 505-8.

    Despite shedding Starc (28) to the second ball, which gave Afridi his solely wicket, Cummins and Swepson (15 not out) scored freely towards spinners Nauman and Sajid Khan.

    Cummins lofted two sixes off left-armer Nauman, who ended up with 1-134 from 48 overs. Sajid took 2-167 from 57 overs.

  • PCB claims on-line menace despatched to Aussie participant Agar’s accomplice however wasn’t credible

    The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has claimed {that a} menace was despatched to the accomplice of touring Australian cricketer Ashton Agar on social media but it surely was not discovered to be “credible” after investigation.

    Australia are touring Pakistan after 24 years amid tight safety.

    “The PCB is aware of a social media post, of which the nature and content has been investigated by the PCB, CA and combined Government security agencies,” the board mentioned in a press release.

    “There are extensive security plans in place for this type of social media activity, which, in this case, is not considered a risk. No further comment will be made at this time,” it added.

    The message was despatched to Agar’s accomplice, Madeleine, on social media, which was instantly reported to Cricket Australia and the PCB.

    “The Australian team security also investigated the matter and do not believe it is a credible threat,” the supply mentioned.

    When New Zealand toured Pakistan final September threats have been despatched out to the group social media.

    Eventually, the Black Caps deserted the tour with out enjoying their white-ball collection on the recommendation of their authorities which mentioned there was a direct safety menace to the touring facet.

    Pakistan has hosted solely six Test matches since 2009 on account of safety causes after the Sri Lanka group was attacked by terrorists in Lahore in March, 2009.

  • Injured Nawaz dominated out of Test sequence towards Australia

    Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz has been dominated out of subsequent month’s much-anticipated three-match Test sequence towards Australia as a consequence of a foot harm.

    The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday confirmed Nawaz’s unavailability and stated solely wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed and quick bowler Naseem Shah could be the travelling reserves.

    Australia is scheduled to tour Pakistan after 24 years for 3 Tests, three ODIs, and one T20I. The first Test will probably be performed in Rawalpindi from March 4.

    The PCB stated 4 different reserves together with Yasir Shah, Kamran Ghulam, Muhammad Abbas and Mohammad Haris have been added to the squad however they are going to be showing within the nationwide One-Day Cup from March 2 and will probably be known as upon if required.

    Test gamers camp on the National Stadium, Karachi.
    Scenario-based apply match photos from in the present day.#PAKvAUS#HarHaalMainCricket pic.twitter.com/pjluMS1h9x

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) February 22, 2022

    Yasir, who final performed within the West Indies final 12 months, has been scuffling with health points in current months however in response to reviews he has been bowling effectively within the coaching camp of the Test gamers right here.

    But the selectors have opted to maintain uncapped leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood, off-spinner Sajid Khan and southpaw Nauman Ali within the enjoying squad.

    The Australian Test squad will attain Islamabad on Sunday by way of a chartered flight and after a quick isolation interval, will begin its preparation for the Test sequence.

    The media supervisor of the Australian squad Brian Murgatroyd has already reached Rawalpindi with the safety officers of the touring squad.

    Australia are touring Pakistan after 1998, though in 2005 and 2007, their ‘A’ groups toured Pakistan.

    Pakistan squad: Babar Azam (captain), Mohammad Rizwan (vice-captain), Abdullah Shafique, Azhar Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Fawad Alam, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Nauman Ali, Sajid Khan, Saud Shakeel, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood and Zahid Mahmood.

  • Australia males’s group to tour Pakistan after 24 years: Cricket Australia

    Cricket Australia (CA) on Friday confirmed that the Australian males’s group will tour Pakistan in March after receiving a go-ahead from governments of each the international locations and the gamers’ affiliation. It is the primary time since 1998 that the Aussie males’s squad will tour Pakistan.
    Australia will play three assessments, an equal variety of one-day internationals and one T20 match between March 4 and April 5.
    Commenting on the announcement, CA CEO Nick Hockley stated: “I wish to thank the PCB and each the Pakistan and Australian Governments for guaranteeing the tour will proceed for the primary time in 24 years. This is a historic event and necessary for the worldwide progress and well being of the sport.

    Our Aussie males are headed to Pakistan ✈️
    It would be the first time our Australian males’s group have toured Pakistan since 1998! #AUSvPAK pic.twitter.com/1LGBCZZEgy
    — Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) February 4, 2022
    “I would also like to thank the Australian Cricketers’ Association and the players, coaches, support teams, staff and security experts for their collaboration in the planning for the tour,” Hockley stated.
    Top groups have largely shunned Pakistan since an assault on the Sri Lanka group bus in Lahore in 2009 that killed six policemen and two civilians.

    Here’s the complete schedule! 🗓
    The squads will probably be introduced within the coming days. pic.twitter.com/BPrl6TYwaB
    — Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) February 4, 2022
    Australia tour to Pakistan schedule: March 4-8: 1st Test, RawalpindiMarch 12-16: 2nd Test, KarachiMarch 21-25: third Test, LahoreMarch 29: 1st ODI, RawalpindiMarch 31: 2nd ODI, RawalpindiApril 2: third ODI, RawalpindiApril 5: T20I, Rawalpindi

  • Shadab, aka Mianwali ka Steve Smith, pulls a rabbit out of the bag

    As Steve Smith blasted his bat onto his pads in anger after holing out within the deep, his hangman, Shadab Khan wrapped his palms over his face, earlier than he was deluged by his onrushing teammates. He was so over-joyous that he didn’t know the way to rejoice. He had not solely dismissed the best Australian batsman of his time, however his idol.

    Last yr, in the course of the PSL, he was requested who he aspired to be. Without any hesitation, he replied: “Steve Smith.” A couple of breezy knocks later, lots of his followers began likening him to Smith, even calling him, Mianwali ka Steve Smith.
    Mianwali, a farming district on the banks of Indus within the Punjab provinces has greater sheher ka heroes. None extra majestic than Imran Khan, who has been carefully following his fellow Mianwali.
    So is Misbah-ul-Haq. Shadab, although, was fast to stub that comparability.
    “I don’t think I can be compared to him (Smith), who is a legend. I am nowhere near him. It is too early to compare me with anyone,” he stated with a calmness that belies his age, a trait that has been the hallmark of the 20-year-old.

    Two balls earlier than the Smith dismissal, David Warner had slaughtered him over his head. A pure response can be to shorten his size a fraction.
    But Shadab, unflustered, went the opposite manner. When Smith returned to strike, he went slower and fuller. Due to the slowness the ball held a bit off the floor, consequently, Smith couldn’t get totally beneath the ball. It was a basic snapshot of how he will get his wickets.

    Subtle variations
    Not with expansive flip—he possesses a ripping fallacious one nonetheless and might impart respectable side-spin on his leg-breaks too—however with delicate variations in tempo, trajectory and angles that he prises out his wickets.
    The fallacious’un, in his arms, is softening the batsmen instrument. The one which places doubts of their minds, the one which conjures illusions within the eyes and thoughts of the batsmen.
    But when he began off all he wished was to show the ball. Turn the ball a mile, flip the ball like his idol, one other Australian, Shane Warne.
    He would spend hours submitting by means of the spin wizard’s assortment of 708 Test wickets on Youtube. The favorite was the Shivnarine Chanderpaul dismissal, the one which spun not one mile, however a few miles, from a tough outdoors the off-stump and knocked his leg-stump out.

    His first motion was a Shane Warne Xerox, however nimble-footed boys in his locality would step down and wrist him by means of the leg-side. That’s when he burned his leg-spin ambition and devoted extra hours to his batting. So crazed about batting that he practically forgot leg-spin, however for the intervention of his former membership coach Sajjad Ahmed.
    “Shadab was so interested in batting that at one time he quit bowling, but I advised him to consider becoming an all-rounder, then he would have a better chance to play top-level cricket and he complied,” he as soon as informed The Dawn.
    By then, although, the Warne in him had died. His motion had grow to be faster and whippier and his craft had grow to be extra pragmatic, whereas it was as soon as romantic. There isn’t any flash about him, his wicket-balls don’t stamp themselves in your psyche. Worse, you overlook that he exists. He operates like a phantom—he’s there, but he’s not, within the shadows.
    But he will get wickets in essential junctions of a sport. Like when he outfoxed Warner and introduced Pakistan again into the sport. He beat the rampaging Warner to his greatest energy, floating one throughout him and baiting him to a staple drive, solely that he had lowered the tempo of this ball, coaxing Warner to slash on the ball with laborious arms and heavy foot. It’s not a supply that you just fall in love at first sight. You want a number of replays to fall in love along with his craft.
    The identical applies for each Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh dismissals. To Maxwell, he spun one away off a great size. It was a danger, for Maxwell is environment friendly at reverse-shots. But he relishes embracing such dangers, finds pleasure from getting batsmen out taking part in their favorite pictures.
    Marsh’s was a easy two-card trick, a ball away from him, and one other into him. To carry out easy tips effectively is his greatest reward too.

    But the evening he took out his idol, and furnished breakthroughs in each over of his, was to finish in tears, as Pakistan crashed out. But the perfect, to go by his preternatural maturity and mastery of his craft, is but to be. Maybe, sooner or later, he may but be the Steve Smith of Mianwali.
    Or higher, the Steve Smith slayer from Mianwali.

  • T20 World Cup: David Warner’s weird time out! A six and a caught behind

    A bizarre second transpired within the second innings of the semifinal match between Pakistan and Australia when David Warner hit a 6 off a Mohammad Hafeez supply which bounced twice earlier than reaching him, earlier than the umpire giving it as a no ball.
    Hafeez misplaced management of the ball and it bounced close to Warner’s foot earlier than bouncing as soon as extra and virtually rolled down the pitch. Warner then decides to maneuver exterior leg and swing it over deep midwicket for an enormous six as he completely smoked it.

    Umpire Kettleborough then signalled a no-ball as a result of ball bouncing twice. But that was an unimaginable hit from Warner as he needed to crouch low, get beneath the low bounce and generate all the ability.
    Warner’s weird evening would proceed as he was caught behind off Shadab’s ball. Initially, there seemed to be a slight nick off the bat as a sound was heard however the UltraEdge was a flat line and confirmed that there was a transparent hole between bat and the ball. The noise may need confused Warner, who thought it was an edge.

    Earlier, Mohammad Rizwan and Fakhar Zaman smashed fast fifties as Pakistan posted a difficult 176 for 4 in opposition to Australia.
    Opening the innings after being invited to bat, Rizwan scored 67 off 52 balls throughout which he hit three boundaries and 4 sixes, whereas Zaman remained unbeaten on 55 off 32 balls with the assistance of three fours and 4 sixes.
    Together with skipper Babar Azam (39), Rizwan shared 71 runs for the opening stand earlier than stitching 72 runs with Zaman.
    For Australia, Mitchell Starc picked up two wickets for 38 runs.