Aus vs Pak 3rd Test: Aamer Jamal’s Dominance, Aussies Skipper Pat Cummins once again shows his brilliance on Day 1
Pakistan team all-rounder Aamer Jamal played a great fighting knock for his team, on the other side Australian Skipper Pat Cummins showed his brilliance once again & took a five-wicket haul.
Pakistan won the toss & decided to bat first in the 3rd test match. Pakistan team made two changes in this match, opener batsman Imam Ul Haq and fast bowler Shaheen Afridi have been rested. Young opening batsman Saim Ayub has been given a chance to debut in his place and Sajid Khan has been given a chance as a spinner. On the other hand, Australia has not made any changes in the team.
Initially, Pakistan’s batting did not start well as both opening batsmen failed to score any runs. The Australian team showed excellent bowling and put the Pakistan team under pressure from the beginning and got 4 wickets for 75 runs in the first session before lunch on the first day.
Pakistan captain Shan Masud was looking in better form but also left after scoring 35 runs. In the second session, wicket-keepers Batar Mohammad Rizwan and Agha Salman showed good batting and both of them made the best partnership of 94 runs which is The most outstanding partnership by Pakistani players in the series.
Mohammad Rizwan falls short of a century, He top edges a pull and falls for 88. Australian Skipper Pat Cummins once again delivers a crucial blow and Agha Salman is gone after scoring 53 runs. Both players gave a brilliant performance and put Pakistan on a good stage.
After the departure of both of them, the bowling all-rounder Aamer Jamal, who came at number 9, faced the Australian bowlers and played a wonderful innings of his career. He scored 82 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 9 fours.
In this inning, fast bowler Mir Hamza gave full support to Aamer Jamal. The partnership of 86 runs between these two is the second-largest tenth-wicket partnership by Pakistan against Australia.
At the end of the day, the Pakistan team bowled out on 313, all Australian bowlers gave a brilliant performance in SCG. An unbelievable fighting knock of 82 runs from Aamer Jamal and 88 from Muhammad Rizwan helped Pakistan from 97-5 to 313-10 against Australia. Skipper Pat Cummins once again showed a great bowling performance and took a Five-wicket haul, this is 3rd in a row. Mitchell Starc took 2 wickets and others took 1 wicket of each.
Starting their first innings, Australia scored (6) for no loss with David Warner and Usman Khawaja unbeaten on (6) and (0) respectively. There was only one over remaining in the day as Australia came out to bat. David Warner, who is playing the last Test match of his career, faced all six bowls to remain unbeaten. Pakistan’s Sajid Khan bowled the first over.
