Pakistan finish Day 3 at 64/3 in their second innings, trail by 276 runs at the Gabba

[Rana]

Big first wicket for Naseem.

He can pick up 5-6 today. Aussies will try and attack to build sizeable lead with time left to bowl at Pakistan again.

 

[TeamPak95]

Naseeeeem, well done boyy

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

The Legendary Sir Steven Smith in.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Who would have thought, you can get Warner out by bowling good lines from around the wicket

All his 10 dismissals were like that in England

 

[Kroll]

Come on Naz, clean up the rest of the Oz batting, lol

 

[kingusama92]

Well-deserved wicket!

He's been toiling away since yesterday.

This is probably more impressive than the tour match because he's shown the willingness to work through in-game adversity.

 

[Abdullah719]

All his 10 dismissals were like that in England

Exactly, not sure what Waqar was telling the bowlers yesterday.

 

[Big Mac]

First of many for the young man Inshallah

 

[Captain caveman]

This team aint going to let me sleep!
Congratulations naseem on your first international wicket!
Warner looked exhausted this morning to be fair.

 

[jnaveen1980]

I think they will bat for another 50 overs and target 200 runs more.

 

[tyron_woodley]

Ashwin, Pujara, Rahane, Kuldeep they are not really athletic runners. Kohli, Jadeja, Umesh are the only ones who can run fast. Ishant, Shami are lethargic while fielding. Let us not confuse between their bowling fitness and fielding fitness. We are not quiet there yet.

strength power endurance agility speed

auatralia only ahead in speed overall. indian bowlers have plenty of power. Lot of them are strong. umesh probably is the strongest player from both sides.
bowling fitness is just as important.
rahane and puji are unatheltic yes but they still have elite level cardio which allows them to bat for long periods.

Australians only 'LOOk' more athletic but in terms of efficiency indian bowlers are superior. Australian batsmen are more athletic than indian batsmen though.

 

[jnaveen1980]

He struggled against Imran too with that line.

 

[Rana]

Imagine bowling Steven smith out on Test debut at 16!

 

[tyron_woodley]

congrats naseem. I take back what I said earlier. Finally I saw a good bouncer. keep it going.

He listened to me lol.

 

[MMHS]

This time confirmed - what a wicket to start the counter. Kid should click many, many in that counter .... unless he is spoiled by the porn version of cricket. What I can see is an offer coming instantly from BBL, BPL, CPL, EPL .....

 

[jnaveen1980]

It took 154 runs to figure out he doesn't like round the wicket line lol

 

[jnaveen1980]

Smith looks positive. Does that signal something.

 

[KingKhan12]

Lol said many times on here that go around to Warner and stay their its common sense. Took Pakistan 1 whole day to realise what Warners weakness is. Stupid coaches and management we have

 

[jnaveen1980]

Nervous 90s. Already three 90s and two 80s in sheffeld shield game

 

[hussain.r97]

That was one heck of a delivery to remove Warner, brutal bouncer!

 

[Big Mac]

Smith looks positive. Does that signal something.

Signalled something, probably not what you expected though

 

[majiz]

reckon shah should try bowling this slowly outside the subcontinent in future

 

[MMHS]

I am sure, I have seen Labus'ne scoring most runs through on side and he has a weakness of sometimes driving uppishly through short mid wicket & cover - where are the close catchers against Naseem? Kid is bowling heart out and one can easily pop up from bat splice either side of in front of squire, at around 12 metre distance.

 

[Rana]

What a stupid decision to replace on fire Shah with Shaheen!

 

[jnaveen1980]

Missed a straight ball KOhli has a chance of grabbing his no.1 spot if Smith registers a few failures here.

 

[Rana]

Big difference when you float it up inviting the big hit instead of just trying to bowl leg spin at 70mph!

 

[Justcrazy]

Pakistan well behind in this game

 

[jnaveen1980]

I still can't believe how Smith missed that ball in current form. I always wondered how he connects from that position. Now i start to wodner how he misses.

 

[Justcrazy]

I do not think Abbas would have made such a difference , Pakistan batsmen have to score 400 plus to try and set up win.

 

[hussain.r97]

Come on, he's on 97, bring in some catchers!

 

[jnaveen1980]

Wade can't play spin. You could bring on Ifthikar

 

[Caved12]

What a stupid decision to replace on fire Shah with Shaheen!

Should have started with him in morning and should have bowled one more.

He was cramping out at the end of day yesterday, so may be they are being careful with him and don't want him to pick an injury in his first game.

 

[Captain caveman]

Congrats labuscagne on maiden test century.

 

[Captain caveman]

Congrats labuscagne on maiden test century.

Now pakistan get him out!

 

[jnaveen1980]

Labu star in the making. Future Damien Martyn. Very calm cool guy.

 

[Justcrazy]

I do not think Pakistan can restrict them to anything below 500

 

[jnaveen1980]

I do not think Pakistan can restrict them to anything below 500

Australia already got enough. Pitch is opening cracks. Lyon will be handy. Also Cummins is a second innings beast at the Gabba averaging 6 with the ball.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Australia's top 4 are rock solid. They just need a decent 5,6,7. They will become world beaters again. They already have a world class batting.

 

[JaDed]

They r going after the attack

 

[jnaveen1980]

They r going after the attack

300 lead will be suffice

 

[Justcrazy]

Yasir leaking too many boundary balls here

 

[jnaveen1980]

Finally ball is turning albeit slowish turn. You have time to adjust.

 

[jnaveen1980]

If Wade can keep, Smith can be the captain what is the point of Tim Paine? I think Australia is wasting a spot. They could use Mitch Marsh or Shaun Marsh or even Khawaja.

 

[tyron_woodley]

If Wade can keep, Smith can be the captain what is the point of Tim Paine? I think Australia is wasting a spot. They could use Mitch Marsh or Shaun Marsh or even Khawaja.

when wade keeps his batting ability is affected severely. Hence why he quit keeping.

 

[tyron_woodley]

Australia's top 4 are rock solid. They just need a decent 5,6,7. They will become world beaters again. They already have a world class batting.

in australia only*. Not good enough for india in India.

 

[shariqnoor]

Wade is making a century here. He looks like a million dollar.

 

[angrypathan]

four, Wade taking the attack to Yasir

 

[jnaveen1980]

Marathon spell for Yasir. 37th over.

 

[Captain caveman]

This is really frustrating that we have only 3 bowlers - yasir, shaheen and naseem.

 

[jnaveen1980]

As much as Warne goes on with his hype about Yasir, i don't think he bowled that well. lol Warne goes way over the top like he does with all other players. Ball is actually turning now. He drops short every now and then and almost always bowls half vollies.

 

[JibranAnsari]

why haris?

 

[shariqnoor]

I thought Azhar would bring Iftikhar in for Wade. Instead he brings Haris. Unless this is for end change, it looks like a stupid move.

 

[azimiqbal]

Really like captaincy from Azhar, LABU was nearing century did. It bring up the filed or make him sweat.

Wade comes in and you don’t have a silly mid off.

Reactive not proactive.

We have looked a lot better today but question is why did we not have any plans for yesterday ?

 

[JibranAnsari]

shouldn't imran khan be the workhorse with his 125 kph thunderbolts , imran khan the great used to bowl faster in his 40s.

 

[Justcrazy]

Yasir bowling lacks control , he is past prime , poor decision to keep playing him.

 

[angrypathan]

why haris?

Allowed another over before lunch

 

[JibranAnsari]

******** bowling by yasir

 

[jnaveen1980]

Yasir is bowling like a rookie leggie who struggles to land every over atleast twice or thrice.

 

[angrypathan]

Imran looked like a grandpa running for that ball

 

[JibranAnsari]

yasir has never looked good in australia. Has always been terrible , should have bowled a 4th quick instead. You are bound to pick a couple of wickets if you bowl 40 overs.

 

[Abdullah719]

28 overs this session. Improvement.

3 overs short yesterday... WTC points are deducted for slow over-rates. We have 0, hope we don't go into negative points...

 

[jnaveen1980]

Labu has stopped scoring. Wade is exclusively scoring in this partnership.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Session belongs to Pakistan marginally given the wickets that fell.

 

[hussain.r97]

Probably Pakistan's session, bowled pretty well. Too little too late though.

 

[JibranAnsari]

doesnt matter if they score 450 500 or 600. They will win by an innings.

 

[Captain caveman]

Alot of people criticising yasir, hes got 2 of the 3 wickets we have, including smith for 4.
I agree he needs to be bowling 6 good balls an over, not 4 good balls and 1 hit me ball.
But have we got anyone better?
Shadab and zafar gohar look over rated to me, especially for tests outside asia.

 

[Captain caveman]

Also, i said yesterday over and over again for the bowlers to bowl around the wicket, they didnt yesterday but did today and it was a better performance from the bowlers.

 

[Captain caveman]

doesnt matter if they score 450 500 or 600. They will win by an innings.

An innings and 100+ runs

 

[jiduguravindra]

Wade is making a century here. He looks like a million dollar.

Not surprised at all..make loads of runs in domestic matches, hard work always pays off

 

[Captain caveman]

Not surprised at all..make loads of runs in domestic matches, hard work always pays off

It be funny in a depraved way, if all the aussies score 97+ runs except for steve smith.

 

[angrypathan]

Why is Haris starting the session

 

[Captain caveman]

WTH! Why is harris bowling after lunch!

 

[Captain caveman]

And now imran is bowling!
Might as well get the aussies set after lunch to score their cenuries/double centuries!

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Guys I don't think Haris sohail should be in the team, I was watching highlights and he dropped an easy catch in the practice game of Naseem also he looks quite out of shape to be playing test cricket.

 

[angrypathan]

Guys I don't think Haris sohail should be in the team, I was watching highlights and he dropped an easy catch in the practice game of Naseem also he looks quite out of shape to be playing test cricket.

Noone except Misbah thought he should've played this game. Woefully out of form at the moment

 

[Captain caveman]

And now iftis bowling

 

[hussain.r97]

These bowlers are literally just getting them set again. Why not attack with all three Shah's straight away?

 

[angrypathan]

Azhar's captaincy does my head in

 

[angrypathan]

These bowlers are literally just getting them set again. Why not attack with all three Shah's straight away?

It's like a gentle net session to get their eye in before they have to face pace

 

[angrypathan]

Naseem and Yasir should have started after the break