IPAKISTAN ilahlwa amawikhethi amane e-AUSTRALIA

Esidlweni sasemini osukwini lwesithathu, izivakashi bezingu-203-6 no-Saud Shakeel engaphumanga engu-12 no-Agha Salman kumane, kusasele ama-runs angu-284. UMitchell Marsh ukhiphe oyingozi u-Babar Azam kwathi u-Nathan Lyon wathola iwikhethi yakhe ye-Test yesi-498 njengoba i-Pakistan ibhidlika kancane kwi-Test yokuqala e-Perth ngoMgqibelo.

Esidlweni sasemini osukwini lwesithathu, izivakashi bezingu-203-6 no-Saud Shakeel engaphumanga engu-12 no-Agha Salman kumane, kusasele ama-runs angu-284. Baqale ngo-132-2 ngemuva kokwakha isisekelo esiqinile sokujaha i-innings yokuqala yeqembu lasekhaya elingu-487 kodwa abazange bafane nokuhlasela kwe-Australia okusezingeni eliphezulu.

Owavula umdlalo weStoic u-Imam-ul-Haq uqale kabusha ngomhlaka-38 kanti umlindi wasebusuku u-Khurram Shahzad kwayisikhombisa kulandela ukuxoshwa kukakaputeni u-Shan Masood ngaphambi nje kokuthi ashayeke phansi ngoLwesihlanu. UShahzad, ekuqaleni kwakhe, udle amabhola amabili nje ngaphambi kokuthi u-Pat Cummins akhiphe isiphunzi sakhe esiphakathi kwi-over yokuqala ngokuletha okugcwele nokuqondile.

Lokho kwenza i-Azam yafinyelela esicongweni ku-Test yakhe yama-50, ebheke kancane amabhola angu-13 ngaphambi kokuthi asuke lapho efake khona ikhava ezintanjeni zeCummins.

Esebenzisa isikhathi sakhe ngokumelene nokuhlasela komthungo ethola ukugxuma nesivinini endaweni eshiswe yilanga, washaya enye endaweni elandelayo yase-Cummins ukuze aqinisekise ukuthi ibhodi lokushaya liyaphela. Ngakolunye uhlangothi, u-Haq uqhubekile nokukhipha i-Test 50, kwathi eyokuqala yakhe e-Australia, ephuma emabholeni angu-161 nge-Lyon eyodwa.

Kodwa ama-runs bekunzima ukudlula futhi ngesikhathi kwethulwa u-Marsh, uvele wenza okuphambene, ekhipha i-Azam ena-21, nokapteni wangaphambili wathola i-edue eqoqwe unozinti we-wicket u-Alex Carey. Kuqhamuke ukugoqeka okuncane, u-Haq ebambe u-62 ngesikhathi u-Lyon ebuyiselwa ekuhlaseleni, eshaja i-wicket futhi egeja ngesikhathi sokugxilisa ingqondo, u-Carey ekhipha ama-bail.

USarfaraz Ahmed (3) udlale amabhola ayisithupha kuphela, akekho nomdlalo kuMitchell Starc, ukushwiba kwakhe kwenza iziphunzi zindize. IPakistan ayikaze iyiwine i-Test e-Australia kusukela ngo-1995.