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Australia [580] beat Pakistan [240 & 335] by an innings and 5 runs in the first Test

Overall poor result . But some positives like Babar Azam, Rizwan, Naseem. Smit getting out to low score is another good news.
 
if babe dint play that rash shot in the first innings and if rizwan wasn't given out incorrectly in the first innings then pakistan may well have had a lead of 150 plus. Would be quite a dangerous lead on day 5.
 
At least we scored some runs in the second innings. After both first innings were completed Pak was only playing for some respect. Can go on and on about the usual short comings that we are all aware off. In a nutshell we are simply not able to challenge the Aussies in their own back yard with this side, no chance. Batting first in Australia need to score at least 400 to put them under any sort of pressure.
 
PakLFC said:
At least we scored some runs in the second innings. After both first innings were completed Pak was only playing for some respect. Can go on and on about the usual short comings that we are all aware off. In a nutshell we are simply not able to challenge the Aussies in their own back yard with this side, no chance. Batting first in Australia need to score at least 400 to put them under any sort of pressure.
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335 is still not good enough. Our batting can't score 400+ so I think if we want to come close in the next test. Bowlers need to make a difference
 
Encouraging start for new era of Pakistan cricket. Second innings batting was good and Naseem has given reality to the hype. Loss by 5 runs is not too bad.
 
Good match.

Australia got the job done in 04 days.

Pakistani fans got what they wanted. An expected loss with a Babar century and a rising Rizwan. Imran Khan also probably gets knocked out for the next test.

So win win situation for all.
 
JattMaula said:
Encouraging start for new era of Pakistan cricket. Second innings batting was good and Naseem has given reality to the hype. Loss by 5 runs is not too bad.
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Its an innings and 5 runs.

Just saying.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Overall poor result . But some positives like Babar Azam, Rizwan, Naseem. Smit getting out to low score is another good news.
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It’s a bad news - the guy averaging like 100 in last few summers had his odd failure in an innings win; now he’ll need to fix his average in second Test😩
 
Yet another lost opportunity of winning a Test series in Australia. When will we ever win? This is frustrating!
 
Everybody already knows about Babar's talent (despite my post in jest in another thread). The biggest positives for PCT to take forward from this match are-

1. Rizwan - I had no doubt about his ability despite his few shortcomings.
2. Naseem - I predict he'll bypass SSA as the best young prospect in Pakistan if handled properly.
 
Mercurial said:
Yet another lost opportunity of winning a Test series in Australia. When will we ever win? This is frustrating!
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I don't know when. But certainly not in the very near future. Top teams are going up and we are going down.
 
Rizwan!! What an immense improvement over Sarfraz, Misbah's reforms already started to show results.

BTW I expected a brutal loss, I guess Pak should be okay with the result considering they almost made Aus bat twice.
 
Hyperion66 said:
Rizwan!! What an immense improvement over Sarfraz, Misbah's reforms already started to show results.

BTW I expected a brutal loss, I guess Pak should be okay with the result considering they almost made Aus bat twice.
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the babar wicket in the first innings plus rizwan being incorrectly given out cost them.

Could have had a reasoble lead of 150 or 200 which may have helped them get a draw.
 
Australia clinch first Test win despite fighting Babar hundred

Australia have taken a 1-0 lead in the series against Pakistan but not before Babar Azam scored a century and Mohammad Rizwan almost registered one as the tourists showed fighting qualities on Sunday at the Gabba.

Tim Paine’s side wrapped up victory by an innings and five runs inside four days but were at least made to work for it as Babar and Rizwan led from the front.

Australia will head to Adelaide, where the second and final match of the series begins on Friday, with an extra day’s break, which will enhance the chances of selectors sticking with the pace attack of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood that completed the job in Brisbane.

Hazlewood (4-63), Starc (3-73) and Cummins (2-62) shared the spoils in the second innings, although it was Nathan Lyon who claimed the crucial wicket of Babar.

Pakistan didn’t roll over as easily as many might have suspected they would when they resumed at 3-64 in their second innings on Sunday morning, still trailing by 276.

Their defiance was largely down to a superb 104 from Babar, whose 132-run partnership for the sixth wicket with gloveman Rizwan (95) kept Australia at bay until midway between lunch and tea on the fourth day.

It was only the third hundred scored by a Pakistan player at the Gabba and reinforced the 25-year-old’s standing as one of the most exciting batsmen in world cricket. Babar’s careless dismissal in the first innings hurt his team’s chances but he responded with an eye-catching century, his second in Tests, kissing the grass after reaching the milestone in mid-afternoon.

Rizwan, who bludgeoned two hundreds against Australia in a one-day series in the UAE in March, also refused to lie down, hooking prodigiously in what was his first Test half-century.

While the Australian quicks claimed the bulk of the wickets in Brisbane, it was Lyon who made the key breakthrough as Babar rocked onto the back foot and the fine edge off his bat was well taken by Tim Paine, one of four catches for the innings for the captain.

Cummins had earlier collected the first wicket of the day, that of an improved Shan Masood (42), who nicked short one he tried to hook before a gem from Hazlewood had Iftikhar Ahmed caught behind for a duck.

After Babar then departed Rizwan continued on with Yasir Shah, who again proved more handy with the bat than a career average of 11 suggests.

In only his second Test, a maiden hundred beckoned for Rizwan, who has assumed the job behind the stumps in the middle order after the dumping of Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed.

With Australia taking the new ball he came unstuck after tea, however, five runs short of the milestone when he tried to swat a short one from Hazlewood over the slips and spooned it to Lyon at deep backward point.

When Yasir then ballooned one from Hazlewood to Matthew Wade at extra cover the end was nigh and it came quickly as Pakistan were bowled out for 335.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...e-fighting-babar-hundred-20191124-p53dmm.html
 
Aussies dominated the whole game. Yet another phainta. 2 decades of phainta to PCT.

Is Babar really a Pakistani? :yk

Next game, let's see if Azhar and Shafiq can play a meaningful innings.
 
Congratulations to Pakistan for a narrow margin innings defeat and putting up a fight.
 
I don’t see any batsmen in the current Pakistani lineup who have the ability to play long innings, someone who can bat for 2 days and score big daddy hundred.
 
Guys has Australia ever lost a test match at the Gabba? They look invincible when they play at this stadium..
 
If you look really want to look at brightside..then if you take warners innings out who was out on a no ball on 50...and lamas innings out who was alsogiven a chance early out we got e rest out cheaply
 
A lovely loss where we can see the likes of Misbah left scratching his head as to why players like Imran Khan and Asad Shafiq haven't lit the world up like Kohli and Smith.
 
I've no interest in "looking at the positives". We lost by an innings and it's another shambles all round by a clueless captain and team management.
 
Shameful defeat.
Babar's and Rizwan's knocks shouldn't dilute the impact of this pathetic performance.
Yes, it is a difficult tour, but these are international level players, it is not a club team playing against an international team.
Getting rid of Sarfraz will not improve the team - the problem remains with players' attitudes and management.
 
I'm glad Rizwan and Babar performed. With the situation we were in that was all that interested me tbh.
 
What were the odds on all 3 home teams losing the toss, batting once and winning by an innings?
 
Great fight from Babar (not surprising) and Rizwan. Yasir also had a somewhat decent Test match (4 wickets and runs with the bat). Asad did good in 1st innings. Shan wasn't too bad. Rest were below average.

Congratulations to Australia.
 
I'm proud that this didntvend with a whimper, especially well played for babar and rizwan but it's clear things need to change

The 3rd and 4th day pitch showed turn and we need a second spinner to help shah.

Ali may be in a worse position with the bat than shafiq and his captaincy will have to be limited.

Imam is young and hungry and would make a better opening partner than Ali.

Ali has to bat at 3 or not play, and his captaincy is currently irrelevant.

Abbas needs to return and be given confidence he is here to stay.

There us promise in the squad but team selection must seriously improve.
 
barah_admi said:
I'm proud that this didntvend with a whimper, especially well played for babar and rizwan but it's clear things need to change

The 3rd and 4th day pitch showed turn and we need a second spinner to help shah.

Ali may be in a worse position with the bat than shafiq and his captaincy will have to be limited.

Imam is young and hungry and would make a better opening partner than Ali.

Ali has to bat at 3 or not play, and his captaincy is currently irrelevant.

Abbas needs to return and be given confidence he is here to stay.

There us promise in the squad but team selection must seriously improve.
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Second Test is a Pink ball Test. Don't think a 2nd spinner is an option there.
 
sweep_shot said:
Great fight from Babar (not surprising) and Rizwan. Yasir also had a somewhat decent Test match (4 wickets and runs with the bat). Asad did good in 1st innings. Shan wasn't too bad. Rest were below average.

Congratulations to Australia.
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200+ runs in one inning that too at 4+ over. It was horrible performance by Yasir. No bowler wants to see 200+ runs in one inning.
 
Abdullah719 said:
Second Test is a Pink ball Test. Don't think a 2nd spinner is an option there.
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Pitches in Australia turn, sometimes as early as post lunch on the second day. I know the day/night aspect will make it seem different but pitches will deteriorate in the same way, they always do. A second spinner is a must. Too few people understand this aspect of the game, we have all just seen how Pakistan failed and even their part timers found turn. Let us not get caught up in pink ball pace/swing/seam hype. It does not exist.
 
Dropping your best bowler (Abbas) and playing Harris who is obviously out of form since many matches (even the practice games), I don't know what analysis the team management did prior to the match. Babar is already a World class batsman. I can see him to be the best Pakistani batsman ever in a few years.

also, dropping Sarfaraz for Rizwan seems to be a good call in the long term.
 
The tendency has changed for the Pakistani supporters in last 12 months. It’s not about winning or losing anymore, it’s all about how badly we lose. Making the opposition bat twice, stretching the game to the 5th day, one century and a half century in an inning are all considered to be positives and the best possible outcome from the current lot.
 
The reality is that if you play against the best teams away at their fortress, you have to play a near perfect game and of course have selected the right players to play and play them in the correct position.
Pakistan did none of that!

First leaving out abass and imam and selecting ifti and imran was a huge mistake.

Secondly, playing haris at 3, when he clearly should bat at 6, was another huge mistake.

And lastly, you need to play a near perfect match, you have to be clinical and take every chance that comes your way. And of course you need some luck.
I bet people dont even realise, that if pakistan were clinical and with a bit of luck, then the aussies would have been 5 for 2 wickets down with both openers gone. Instead rizwan stood a foot too far back for imran, who is a 130 kph bowler and was to far back to collect the edge burns gave, when he was on 0. Burns went on to score 97.
Shaan fielded brilliantly at short leg and almost ran warner out, just needed a bit of luck, but got none, and the ball just skimmed past the wickets, warner went on to score 154. He was also lucky when in his fifties naseem got him caught in the slips, only to be called for a tight no ball. And lets not forget about rizwan's first innings dismisal when the bowler was refered to the third umpire for a no ball and the third umpire wrongly gave the delivery as a legitimate delivery.

I am not saying we would have won this test if all the above were corrected, but we would have had a chance.

Lastly, someone needs to tell pakistani players, that on hard bouncey tracks like the gabba, if the bowler bowls a bouncer at you, the ball WILL NOT hit the stumps, it will bounce over the stumps, so you dont have to play at that delivery, just pay close attention to the pitch of the ball and if its pitched short, then take evasive action, duck or weave out of the way of the ball. Too many of our players played balls which they could have left alone and got out. In fact, most of our wickets were gifts, apart from yasir and asad in the first innings and azhar in the second innings.

We need to be more clever and professional when we play against top teams.
 
ARK Rafay said:
335 is still not good enough. Our batting can't score 400+ so I think if we want to come close in the next test. Bowlers need to make a difference
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This bowling attack is not good enough at all. At least with Wahab, Amir and Hasan Ali we had hope of taking wickets. This attack can't swing or seam it at all.
 
PakLFC said:
This bowling attack is not good enough at all. At least with Wahab, Amir and Hasan Ali we had hope of taking wickets. This attack can't swing or seam it at all.
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Amir and Wahab were not good enough either when Pakistan last visited Australia.

1st Test (D/N)
Australian Innings - 429 & 202/5d
Amir - 5/134 in 39 overs
Wahab - 5/136 in 33 overs

2nd Test
Australian Innings - 624/8d
Amir - 0/91 in 33 overs
Wahab - 2/147 in 32 overs

3rd Test
Australian Innings - 538/8d & 241/2d
Amir - 0/83 in 24 overs
Wahab - 4/117 in in 35 overs
 
ARK Rafay said:
Amir and Wahab were not good enough either when Pakistan last visited Australia.

1st Test (D/N)
Australian Innings - 429 & 202/5d
Amir - 5/134 in 39 overs
Wahab - 5/136 in 33 overs

2nd Test
Australian Innings - 624/8d
Amir - 0/91 in 33 overs
Wahab - 2/147 in 32 overs

3rd Test
Australian Innings - 538/8d & 241/2d
Amir - 0/83 in 24 overs
Wahab - 4/117 in in 35 overs
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They were still better then our current bowling attack. IK jnr, Shah and the other one won't be winning us anything.
 
PakLFC said:
They were still better then our current bowling attack. IK jnr, Shah and the other one won't be winning us anything.
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How were they better when they conceded 600+, 500+ runs and conceded 200+ runs in 35 overs?
They couldn't even take 10 wickets except for the first match.
 
Relic said:
How were they better when they conceded 600+, 500+ runs and conceded 200+ runs in 35 overs?
They couldn't even take 10 wickets except for the first match.
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We need to look at their overall performance not only against the Aussies. What 600 plus series are you talking about?
 
PakLFC said:
We need to look at their overall performance not only against the Aussies. What 600 plus series are you talking about?
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2nd test vs Aus.
They conceded 624. Couldn't even take the full 10 wickets still. The aussies declared lol.
 
Relic said:
2nd test vs Aus.
They conceded 624. Couldn't even take the full 10 wickets still. The aussies declared lol.
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So your view on Hassan, Amir and Wahab is based on one Test? Our current attack is much worse!
 
Time to move on! Lets hope lessons learnt.
 
PakLFC said:
So your view on Hassan, Amir and Wahab is based on one Test? Our current attack is much worse!
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Lol. Did you not read what I said??
They conceded 500+ as well in that series.and conceded 200+ in 35 overs as well.

My view isn't based on just one test. It's based on the series as a whole
 
Relic said:
Lol. Did you not read what I said??
They conceded 500+ as well in that series.and conceded 200+ in 35 overs as well.

My view isn't based on just one test. It's based on the series as a whole
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Even one series isn't enough to form an opinion. Those three were still better then the rubbish we saw in the last Test.
 
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