14/12Result
1st Test (D/N), Pakistan tour of Australia at Brisbane, Dec 15-19 2016
Australia won by 39 runs
Player of the Match
Asad Shafiq
Asad ShafiqPakistan
14/12Result
1st Test (D/N), Pakistan tour of Australia at Brisbane, Dec 15-19 2016
Australia won by 39 runs
Player of the Match
Asad Shafiq
Asad ShafiqPakistan

4.25pm Pakistan dismissed Hazlewood and Handscomb in successive balls soon after tea, but Lyon and Bird frustrated them a 49-run last-wicket stand in 66 balls. They hauled Australia past 400. Bird's wings were clipped for batting failures, and he was omitted for the SA series. He probably proved a point with his 19 not out today; he made more runs than Khawaja, Maddinson, and Wade put together. He now has to do the job with the ball

130.1
W
Yasir Shah to Lyon, OUT, Yasir finally breaks the last-wicket stand. He finishes with only two wickets. Could have had four or even five. Australia have been dismissed for 429. Tossed up higher, Lyon flicks, but can't keep it down. Shafiq pouches another catch, this one simpler than the ones at slips. Taken at midwicket

NM Lyon c Asad Shafiq b Yasir Shah 29 (55m 24b 6x4 0x6) SR: 120.83

END OF OVER:
130 | 7 Runs | AUS: 429/9

  • Jackson Bird19 (43b)
  • Nathan Lyon29 (23b)
  • Azhar Ali8-0-35-0
  • Yasir Shah43-6-129-1

4.22pm Time for drinks. This thorny last-wicket stand is getting thornier for Pakistan.

129.6
0
Azhar Ali to Bird, no run, turning down the leg side
129.5
1
Azhar Ali to Lyon, 1 run, full and outside off, driven down to long-off

Oh, a spectator invades the field and the police have tackled him down quickly. He has been handcuffed and taken out

129.4
0
Azhar Ali to Lyon, no run, slider outside off, left alone
129.3
4
Azhar Ali to Lyon, FOUR, low full-toss on middle, Azhar errs in length. Lyon goes low and sweeps it behind square, his head over the ball. Beats the man in the deep to his right
129.2
1
Azhar Ali to Bird, 1 run, half-tracker outside off, sits up, Bird skips back and cuts firmly to sweeper
129.1
1
Azhar Ali to Lyon, 1 run, pushed through outside off, Lyon likes sweeping. Takes it from outside off, rolls his wrists, and places it through square leg

Misbah turns to Azhar

END OF OVER:
129 | 2 Runs | AUS: 422/9

  • Jackson Bird18 (41b)
  • Nathan Lyon23 (19b)
  • Yasir Shah43-6-129-1
  • Wahab Riaz26-4-89-4
128.6
0
Yasir Shah to Bird, no run, tossed up higher, hint of turn, takes the outside edge and rolls to the left of silly point
128.5
0
Yasir Shah to Bird, no run, straighter one on middle 87.8ks, pushed down to mid-on

BabaKP: "Pakistan having clawed their way back into the game with quick wickets this afternoon are again ceding ground to Australia by allowing this last wicket resistance to grow "

128.4
0
Yasir Shah to Bird, no run,
128.3
2
Yasir Shah to Bird, 2 runs, quicker, may have been a googly, glanced to long leg
128.2
0
Yasir Shah to Bird, no run, starts outside off and turns away further. Bird has nothing to do with his legbreak
128.1
0
Yasir Shah to Bird, no run, floated up outside off, gets forward and pats the ball to cover

END OF OVER:
128 | 5 Runs | AUS: 420/9

  • Nathan Lyon23 (19b)
  • Jackson Bird16 (35b)
  • Wahab Riaz26-4-89-4
  • Yasir Shah42-6-127-1
127.6
0
Wahab Riaz to Lyon, no run, back of a length and angling away outside off, solidly punched to cover

Match Coverage

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Too close, yet far

1

No. of smaller margin of defeat for a team scoring 400+ while chasing, than Pakistan's loss by 39 runs. NZ had lost by 38 runs after making 440 in Nottingham in 1973.

PAK's strong comeback

277

Previous highest difference between PAK's 1st inns & 2nd inns (2nd minus 1st) totals v AUS before this. They had made 260 & 537 after following-on in Rawalpindi.

Shafiq's record

9

No. of centuries for Asad Shafiq at No. 6 position in Tests - the most by any player. He went past Garry Sobers who had hit eight 100s at the position.

Best at Gabba

370

Previous highest 4th inns total at Gabba, by Eng in Ashes 2006-07. Pak have gone past that score. Highest anywhere in Aus is 445 by Ind at Adelaide in 1977-78.

Younis while chasing

55.04

Younis Khan's ave in 4th inns, before this - the third-best among 27 batsmen with 1000+ runs.

Big task

0

No. of instances of teams batting more than 150 overs in the fourth innings of a Test at Gabba. There are more than 200 overs left in this Test.

Dominating Smith

7

No. of times Smith has scored a century and a fifty in the same Test, including this. Only Kallis (11), Ponting (10), Border (9) & Sangakkara (9) have done it more times.

Some respite

75

Runs added by Pakistan's last 2 wickets - 54 for 9th wkt and 21 for then 10th. They raised from 67/8 to 142. This is the 2nd-most Pak's last 2 wkts have added in Aus.

Collapsed

24

Runs added by Pakistan's 3rd to 8th wkts in this inns - the lowest for them. The previous lowest was 25 runs at WACA in 1981-82.

Younis' lean patch

16

Runs scored by Younis in his last six Test innings, including a duck in this. His scores - 0, 2, 1, 2, 11, 0.

Double attack

2

No. of times 2 visiting bowlers have taken 4+ wkts in an inns vs Aus since 2010, both this year - Abbott & Rabada in Hobart and Amir & Wahab in this Test.

Best since return

0

No. of times Amir took more than 3 wkts since his return, in 16 inns before this. He took three 3-wkt hauls.