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Yasir Shah hits 113 but Pakistan end Day 3 at 39/3 (follow-on), still trail Australia by 248 runs
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Surprised to see Yasir hitting a century. Well done!
Pakistan did well to recover from 96/6.
Pakistan did well to recover from 96/6.
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Need Shan and Asad to step up tomorrow to set a target.
Doubt they will.
Doubt they will.
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It was one of the most talked about declarations by an Australian captain in recent history.
And Tim Paine on Sunday explained the timing of the decision to call in David Warner on 335 not out the previous day, which meant the opener wouldn't get a dash at Matthew Hayden's Australian best of 380 or potentially even Brian Lara's world record 400.
Mark Taylor backs David Warner after record knock on day two of the second Test.
"It’s a tough one no doubt. Everyone would have loved to have seen the 400 mark get beaten but unfortunately with the weather that’s around we made a decision as a team that we put in place a time,” Paine told Seven.
“Davey was part of that decision and was all for it. We’re here to win Test matches and with the Test Championship now, there is 60 points on the line. If we had of kept batting and it rained for a day – and I think there’s a bit around on day five as well – we would be kicking ourselves."
Paine and Steve Smith enjoyed an amusing exchange with Marnus Labuschagne as the Queenslander's first spell on Sunday came to an end, or so he thought.
With Nathan Lyon looking like he was replacing Labuschagne and coming into the attack, the 25-year-old got himself ready to field at short-leg, putting on shin pads under his trousers and a protector down his strides.
Paine had a different idea. "You are bowling" the Australia captain said to Labuschagne as he stationed himself close to the bat. With a grinning Smith alongside him, Paine asked the Australia No.3 why he was padded up.
"You told me I was done!" Labuschagne replied.
Collo can't take a trick
It wasn't only Mitchell Starc who gasped at what might have been after a ball careered off the edge of Mohammad Abbas' bat and through a vacant point on Sunday.
Broadcaster Adam Collins was calling Starc's hat-trick ball for SEN radio and for him the close call continued a long-running trend. Collins calculates he has attended 116 Test matches, many of them in radio and television boxes around the world over the past five years, and has never witnessed a hat-trick.
He has called two in one-day international cricket - James Faulkner's in Sri Lanka in 2016 and New Zealander Trent Boult's versus Australia in the World Cup.
In Tests, he has been at grounds where hat-tricks were taken a day or two either side of the magic moments. That was the case for the most recent Australian example, Peter Siddle's hat-trick against England at the Gabba in 2010, and ones taken by Shane Warne in 1994 and England's Moeen Ali in 2017. Adding to the pain, in the only Australian series since 2014 that Collins hasn't covered, Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath became the oldest bowler to claim a hat-trick.
The topic has become such an obsession for him that before the Adelaide Test he used his podcast, The Final Word, to launch a campaign for "Peter Siddle Day" to mark the 10th anniversary of his birthday hat-trick in Brisbane.
Tons of talent
Labuschagne is the latest star to make it out of the stable of batting coach Neil D'Costa but there's another of his proteges who is also achieving big things.
Mark down the name Yianni Theodorakopoulos in your black book. The year 11 student at Cranbrook has been keeping the honour boards engraver busy, breaking the 86-year record at the school for the most centuries scored in Sydney's CAS (Committee of Associated Schools) competition. The previous mark was set by J.B. Hollander, who made five in 1933.
Theodorakopoulos is well past that now with his century on Friday the ninth of his CAS career from just 15 games.
Theodorakopoulos, whose father Nick is a former coach in the A-League and NSL, made his first XI debut in year eight and last month represented NSW at the under 17 championships. He plays in Blacktown's lower grades when not lining up for his school.
Cranbrook has produced two Test cricketers - batsman Ed Cowan, who wore the baggy green in 18 games, and spinner Will Somerville, who made his debut for New Zealand last year. Legendary ABC caller Jim Maxwell is also an Old Cranbrookian.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sp...ds-declaration-on-warner-20191201-p53ftr.html
And Tim Paine on Sunday explained the timing of the decision to call in David Warner on 335 not out the previous day, which meant the opener wouldn't get a dash at Matthew Hayden's Australian best of 380 or potentially even Brian Lara's world record 400.
Mark Taylor backs David Warner after record knock on day two of the second Test.
"It’s a tough one no doubt. Everyone would have loved to have seen the 400 mark get beaten but unfortunately with the weather that’s around we made a decision as a team that we put in place a time,” Paine told Seven.
“Davey was part of that decision and was all for it. We’re here to win Test matches and with the Test Championship now, there is 60 points on the line. If we had of kept batting and it rained for a day – and I think there’s a bit around on day five as well – we would be kicking ourselves."
Paine and Steve Smith enjoyed an amusing exchange with Marnus Labuschagne as the Queenslander's first spell on Sunday came to an end, or so he thought.
With Nathan Lyon looking like he was replacing Labuschagne and coming into the attack, the 25-year-old got himself ready to field at short-leg, putting on shin pads under his trousers and a protector down his strides.
Paine had a different idea. "You are bowling" the Australia captain said to Labuschagne as he stationed himself close to the bat. With a grinning Smith alongside him, Paine asked the Australia No.3 why he was padded up.
"You told me I was done!" Labuschagne replied.
Collo can't take a trick
It wasn't only Mitchell Starc who gasped at what might have been after a ball careered off the edge of Mohammad Abbas' bat and through a vacant point on Sunday.
Broadcaster Adam Collins was calling Starc's hat-trick ball for SEN radio and for him the close call continued a long-running trend. Collins calculates he has attended 116 Test matches, many of them in radio and television boxes around the world over the past five years, and has never witnessed a hat-trick.
He has called two in one-day international cricket - James Faulkner's in Sri Lanka in 2016 and New Zealander Trent Boult's versus Australia in the World Cup.
In Tests, he has been at grounds where hat-tricks were taken a day or two either side of the magic moments. That was the case for the most recent Australian example, Peter Siddle's hat-trick against England at the Gabba in 2010, and ones taken by Shane Warne in 1994 and England's Moeen Ali in 2017. Adding to the pain, in the only Australian series since 2014 that Collins hasn't covered, Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath became the oldest bowler to claim a hat-trick.
The topic has become such an obsession for him that before the Adelaide Test he used his podcast, The Final Word, to launch a campaign for "Peter Siddle Day" to mark the 10th anniversary of his birthday hat-trick in Brisbane.
Tons of talent
Labuschagne is the latest star to make it out of the stable of batting coach Neil D'Costa but there's another of his proteges who is also achieving big things.
Mark down the name Yianni Theodorakopoulos in your black book. The year 11 student at Cranbrook has been keeping the honour boards engraver busy, breaking the 86-year record at the school for the most centuries scored in Sydney's CAS (Committee of Associated Schools) competition. The previous mark was set by J.B. Hollander, who made five in 1933.
Theodorakopoulos is well past that now with his century on Friday the ninth of his CAS career from just 15 games.
Theodorakopoulos, whose father Nick is a former coach in the A-League and NSL, made his first XI debut in year eight and last month represented NSW at the under 17 championships. He plays in Blacktown's lower grades when not lining up for his school.
Cranbrook has produced two Test cricketers - batsman Ed Cowan, who wore the baggy green in 18 games, and spinner Will Somerville, who made his debut for New Zealand last year. Legendary ABC caller Jim Maxwell is also an Old Cranbrookian.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sp...ds-declaration-on-warner-20191201-p53ftr.html
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Looks like shah got more shots than shan masood. Zero confidence. Shameful performance so far. That's why we need more A tours.
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It's not often the world's No.1 Test bowler is forced to play second fiddle, but such is the hot form of Mitchell Starc at the moment even Pat Cummins has been in awe of the left-armer's pink-ball potency in Adelaide this weekend.
Starc took seven of the 13 Pakistan wickets to fall across days two and three of this second Domain Test, extending his lead as the most prolific bowler in the short history of day-night Test cricket.
Since he was overlooked for all but one of Australia's five Ashes Tests in the winter, Starc has taken 31 wickets at 15.74 at first-class level and his spell on Saturday night stood out to his fast-bowling teammate.
"Even last night under lights, when I was bowling it didn't feel like there was much sideways movement," Cummins told cricket.com.au on Sunday. "And he was tearing in and got four wickets out of nowhere.
"He's someone who just looks to be at the top of his game at the moment. He's played a few Shield games and been a class above there so it's great that he's transferred that over here and we saw at the Gabba (in the first Test) how effective he was as well."
With seven Pakistan wickets still on offer on Monday, Starc's record of 33 wickets in six Tests under lights puts him nine clear of the third member of Australia's pace-bowling trio, Josh Hazlewood, atop the list of leading day-night Test wicket-takers.
He also has 59 wickets at an average of just 18.00 in 10 first-class matches with the pink ball.
Starc, one of the most prolific wicket-takers in limited-overs international cricket, said he and his pace partners are still getting used to the subtleties of the pink Kookaburra ball, which has gone through several reinventions since it was first used in early 2014.
"I still think it's more like a white ball than a red ball, so that's probably playing in my favour there," he said after a fighting century from Yasir Shah, just the fourth-ever by a Test No.8 visiting Australia, pushed Pakistan's first-innings total to 302 on Sunday.
"It still went soft for us on that wicket, as we saw through the early afternoon session today where it didn't move around much at all and the wicket was quite flat.
"When it's going through those stages, it's trying to control the scoreboard, and we did that fairly well at times and then Yasir got away from us a fair bit."
Cummins said the way Starc has responded to the disappointment of his Ashes campaign, where he was forced to watch from the sidelines as James Pattinson and Peter Siddle were picked ahead of him, has been "super impressive".
"It's one of the reasons we love having Starcy in our side," Cummins said. "He's a brilliant guy to have around, whether he's playing or not.
"Over in the Ashes, nine people out of 10 would have thought he was going to be playing and he wasn't. But to his credit, he was great around the team, worked super hard out in the nets every morning trying to make a few tweaks and he's reaping the rewards here.
"Whenever he's bowled in the past few weeks, he's looked a class above. He's brilliant."
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/mit...ix-wickets-adelaide-oval-pink-ball/2019-12-01
Starc took seven of the 13 Pakistan wickets to fall across days two and three of this second Domain Test, extending his lead as the most prolific bowler in the short history of day-night Test cricket.
Since he was overlooked for all but one of Australia's five Ashes Tests in the winter, Starc has taken 31 wickets at 15.74 at first-class level and his spell on Saturday night stood out to his fast-bowling teammate.
"Even last night under lights, when I was bowling it didn't feel like there was much sideways movement," Cummins told cricket.com.au on Sunday. "And he was tearing in and got four wickets out of nowhere.
"He's someone who just looks to be at the top of his game at the moment. He's played a few Shield games and been a class above there so it's great that he's transferred that over here and we saw at the Gabba (in the first Test) how effective he was as well."
With seven Pakistan wickets still on offer on Monday, Starc's record of 33 wickets in six Tests under lights puts him nine clear of the third member of Australia's pace-bowling trio, Josh Hazlewood, atop the list of leading day-night Test wicket-takers.
He also has 59 wickets at an average of just 18.00 in 10 first-class matches with the pink ball.
Starc, one of the most prolific wicket-takers in limited-overs international cricket, said he and his pace partners are still getting used to the subtleties of the pink Kookaburra ball, which has gone through several reinventions since it was first used in early 2014.
"I still think it's more like a white ball than a red ball, so that's probably playing in my favour there," he said after a fighting century from Yasir Shah, just the fourth-ever by a Test No.8 visiting Australia, pushed Pakistan's first-innings total to 302 on Sunday.
"It still went soft for us on that wicket, as we saw through the early afternoon session today where it didn't move around much at all and the wicket was quite flat.
"When it's going through those stages, it's trying to control the scoreboard, and we did that fairly well at times and then Yasir got away from us a fair bit."
Cummins said the way Starc has responded to the disappointment of his Ashes campaign, where he was forced to watch from the sidelines as James Pattinson and Peter Siddle were picked ahead of him, has been "super impressive".
"It's one of the reasons we love having Starcy in our side," Cummins said. "He's a brilliant guy to have around, whether he's playing or not.
"Over in the Ashes, nine people out of 10 would have thought he was going to be playing and he wasn't. But to his credit, he was great around the team, worked super hard out in the nets every morning trying to make a few tweaks and he's reaping the rewards here.
"Whenever he's bowled in the past few weeks, he's looked a class above. He's brilliant."
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/mit...ix-wickets-adelaide-oval-pink-ball/2019-12-01
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Hopefully Shan and Rizwan score big.
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Reality is often disappointing.
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Don't see much longevity in Iftikhar and Asad so not interested in what they do.
Obviously the bowlers should not be judged on their batting. So I am interested in what Shan and Rizwan do.
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Pathetic batting display by Pakistan.
Yasir Shah batted better than Shan, Asad and Azhar combined
Just get over with the shameful cricket and go play joke cricket. These players were never test quality anyways
Yasir Shah batted better than Shan, Asad and Azhar combined
Just get over with the shameful cricket and go play joke cricket. These players were never test quality anyways
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I am not excepting big scores from shan and rizwan. They are not capable of that. They might get 30ish or 40ish.
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Already forgot Rizwan's 95?
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We have at least at least 4 full fledged batsmen to play yet I have no faith
I kinda figured they'd be something like 3 out in the second innings at the end of the day, was really hoping Babar wasn't one of them
I was hoping that we would make 430+ to make a match out of this but I forgot how weak our batting lineup is.
Alas. We should have made 420-430 hence we would have set a target of around 140-150. We would have lost by 9-10 wickets but at least it wouldn't have been as humiliating.
Alas. We should have made 420-430 hence we would have set a target of around 140-150. We would have lost by 9-10 wickets but at least it wouldn't have been as humiliating.
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Australian fielding yesterday was appalling. Have never seen such pathetic fielding from them.
Shafiq's one century in the Test series is due. Hopefully he can make one here. It would be a great achievement from 96/6 with almost 500 behind to make Australia bat again. I hope they can do this.
Shafiq's one century in the Test series is due. Hopefully he can make one here. It would be a great achievement from 96/6 with almost 500 behind to make Australia bat again. I hope they can do this.
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He’s already scored his good score of the test
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