Cummins shines with the ball and clinch a tough win against Pakistan
Australia
1nd innings (318) – Labuschagne (63) & Usman Khuwaja (42), Aamir Jamal (3-64)
2nd innings (264) _ Mitchell Marsh (96) & Alex Carey (53), Mir Hamza (4-32)
Pakistan
1nd innings (264) –Abdullah Shafique (63) & Shan Masood (54), Pat Cummins (5-48)
2nd innings (237) _ Shan Masood (60) & Agha Salman (50), Pat Cummins (5-49)
(Australia win by 79 runs)
In 2nd innings, Pakistani batters shows little bit intent as Captain Shan Masood played a quick knock and in the middle order Muhammad Rizwan, Babar Azam & Agha Salman played handy knocks and gave Pakistan a little bit hope But Cummins bowled a lethal spell with fiver and took the game away from the away team.
While chasing a good total of 317 in 2nd innings, Away team played quite well. At a point they only need 98 runs to win and they have 5 wickets in hand and Pakistani were thinking about the victory. But just 10 min before the 4th day stumps Rizwan played his favorite swipe short on short delivery and got edged. He completely missed that delivery and but Cummins thinks it touched his bat and he appeals with full confidence but umpire refuses to give decision in his favor. After that he took 3rd umpire review and surprisingly he got him out. However the decision turned to be a confusing decision as Rizwan reacts very Shockley. Also on the screen it confused many cricket fans but at the end he was gone and the captain celebrates his 250th test wicket.
Later on Aamir Jamal caught and bowled and captain took extra 30 minutesas he smell the victory and captain took last wicket of Shaheen and steels the victory from Pakistan. He claims 10th wicket haul as a captain and becomes the man of the match of 2nd test match. He bowled tremendously in 1st match as well and few days ago he bowled his best delivery to Babar and later he speaks about it that was my dream ball to get him out. By this Pakistan registers his 16th straight defeat from Australia in Test matches. It was a disappointed day for Pakistan as they played good cricket apart from 52 extra runs, some drop catches and poor fielding.
Babar was struggling from whole series but in this innings he played a handy knock of 41 then later all pressure goes to Rizwan as he took position of Sarfraz. He scores decent runs in 1st innings and also played a fighting innings. Pakistan struggles badly in 2nd innings as Abdullah Shafique had g
one on 4 by Starc. Imam didn’t scores a run until he faces his 18th delivery and later on he got LBW by Cummins. Babar also can’t finds the way to play Josh Hazlewood. He beaten him many times with good line and length and after all he took his wicket.
Shan Masood © Played attacking cricket and shows positive intent and try to put pressure on home team. He scores 50 on just 57 balls. His Brother and Father watches his innings live. He attacks the Lyon down the ground on the on-side and gets many boundaries. Same tactics he used in first test match. Cummins once again provide breakthrough and took is wicket by edged him to steven smith in the slip. He bowled really well alongside Hazlewood which leads Australia to a tough victory.