Thanks for your company on a damp Boxing Day, and cheers to Jim Wallace for starting it off from the Old Dart. Wishing you and yours a happy week ahead, and we’ll of course be back with you from Day 2 tomorrow.
Stumps on Day 1 - Australia 187 for 3
After losing the toss and being asked to bat, that’s a reasonable result for Australia. We got 66 overs bowled in the end, so realistically we only lost about 20 to rain. Not too bad considering the length of the delay. Had Shafique held onto Warner early in the day, Pakistan may have been able to apply more pressure. But the scoring never cut loose – strike rates in the 30s and 40s for each batter today – so Pakistan are still well placed if they can stop major partnerships from building tomorrow. Australia will probably aim to do just that, keep on grinding out runs and hope that scoring gets easier.
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