Stumps Day 2 - Pakistan 194-6, trail on the first innings by 124
Another good day for Australia, though it could have been a good one for Pakistan. They bowled with great success in the first session, got through Australia’s final seven wickets and kept them to a further 131 runs added. Conceding 318 at least kept Pakistan in the game. And at 124 for 1 themselves, they had every chance to push towards that score and past it. But 5 for 46 put paid to that, and now it’s up to Rizwan and the lower to try to limit the damage again tomorrow. Cummins was superb with three of those wickets, two to start off the collapse when that was most needed. Two for Lyon, one for Hazlewood.
We’ll be back tomorrow for day three.
55th over: Pakistan 194-6 (Rizwan 29, Jamal 2) Another wild Starc short ball goes over the keeper for five wides. Rizwan cuts a single, and with the clock ticking past 6pm that will probably be his last work for the day. Jamal with three slips waiting in the shadow of one of the light towers gets forward gamely and blocks, and blocks, and gets smashed on the pad swinging down leg, but Starc decides not to press the case for a review… so that is that!
