Twitter Reactions: Australia register an innings victory despite stunning resistance from Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan
Babar Azam scored his first away century in Tests.
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Australia have beaten Pakistan by an innings and five runs at The Gabba in Brisbane to go 1-0 up in the two-match Test series. The result wasn’t in question after the visitors had lost three wickets in the second innings late on Day three. But Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan batted brilliantly to delay the inevitable. Once their partnership was broken, the home side didn’t take much time to wrap things up.
The day began with Pakistan tottering at 64/3 as Babar and Shan Masood aimed to keep the Australian bowlers at bay. And they were successful to some extent as well. The latter, like the first innings, once again showed amazing composure. But Masood once again failed to make the start count. He was snaffled by Pat Cummins when on 42 and Iftikhar Ahmed bagged a duck leaving his team in a hole.
At 94/5, it looked as if Australia will win the match before lunch. But that wasn’t the case. Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan joined hands and played admirably well.
Babar Azam finally lives up to the expectations
There was always a lot of focus on Babar Azam and after the first innings failure, he was determined to make amends. He also got an able ally in Rizwan who has completely justified his selection with his performance in this game. The duo added 132 runs for the sixth wicket stand even as Babar got to the three-figure mark finally in an away Test for his country.
However, he couldn’t score a big hundred and got out to Nathan Lyon. But this wasn’t the end of Pakistan’s fight yet. Yasir Shah once again proved the thorn in the flesh for the visitors. He stitched a frustrating partnership of 79 runs with Rizwan. The latter played some amazing counterattacking cricket and was approaching his maiden Test ton.
Unfortunately, he played a wrong shot to the Cummins bouncer and was left stranded on 95. Though many felt for Rizwan, he hasn’t done any harm to his credentials. Australia didn’t take much time then to register a clinical win as the tail was quickly cleaned up with the new ball. Pakistan were bundled out for 335 runs and fell only five runs short of their aim to make the opposition bat again.
For Australia, Josh Hazlewood was the most successful bowler with four wickets to his name while Mitchell Starc returned with the figures of 3/73.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Pretty clinical by Australia in this first test match. Pakistan fought very hard today and Babar and Rizwan showed a lot of class!
— Aaron Finch (@AaronFinch5) November 24, 2019
He is a bloody special player https://t.co/IWphu5GJrL
— Dean Jones AM (@ProfDeano) November 24, 2019
What a pleasure watching @babarazam258 bat, pure class! #AUSvPAK #babarazam 💯
— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket) November 24, 2019
World Cricket will be so much more enticing if this fabulous century in Australia is the making of Babar Azam the test match batsman.
— Ian bishop (@irbishi) November 24, 2019
@babarazam258 what a knock Champion . Keep going
— Salman Butt (@im_SalmanButt) November 24, 2019
Most consecutive undefeated Tests by a team at a venue:
34 – Pakistan at National Stadium, Karachi (1955-2000)
31 – Australia at Gabba, Brisbane (1989-2019)
27 – West Indies at the Kensington Oval, Barbados (1948-93)
25 – England at Old Trafford, Manchester (1905-54)#AUSvPAK— Fox Sports Lab (@FoxSportsLab) November 24, 2019
Australia have taken a 1-0 lead in the two-match Test series against Pakistan. #AUSvPAK pic.twitter.com/wftjmiWzbL
— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) November 24, 2019
Pakistan at the Gabba
1981 – Lost by 10 wickets
1983 – Draw
1995 – Lost by an inns & 126 runs
1999 – Lost by 10 wickets
2016 – Lost by 39 runs
2019 – Lost by inns & 5 runs#AUSvPAK— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) November 24, 2019
AUSTRALIA WIN!#AUSvPAK pic.twitter.com/1nwY0y7W5p
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) November 24, 2019
#Cricket fact:#Australia🇦🇺 has won 31 consecutive tests at the @GabbaBrisbane right up to now. They hadn't lost there since their defeat by the #WestIndies the Bicentennial year of 1988.#AUSvPAK @CricketAus
— TVPI 2.0 (@ThanhViet86) November 24, 2019
Pakistan should think abt their test team future…they can't hide their team's bad performance always by saying We lost but Babar scored ..one man can't win u all matches every time.. #AUSvPAK
— SALMAN'S SOLDIRE (@beingbhaijaan01) November 24, 2019
gonna tell my kids ' Ishq mein na pyar mai Jo maza hai Pakistan ke haar mein.
— Prince Pandey🍁🦜 (@princepandey_) November 24, 2019
Marnus man of the match. #AUSvPAK
— Andrew Faulkner (@AndrewFaulkner9) November 24, 2019
Australia at the Gabba since 1989
DWWDWWWWWDWWDWDWWWWWWDWDWWWWWWW#AUSvPAK
— srikrishna 🏏 (@1998Srikrishna) November 24, 2019
Well… That innings was longer than I expected.. Thanx to Babar and Rizwan. #AUSvPAK
— Nouman Zafar (@nomitheone) November 24, 2019
PAK cricket fans from last 2 yrs:
We lost,😓😓😓😓
But babar scored😃😃😃😃
— I Tweet Stuffs (@KhabriBiggstFan) November 24, 2019
Oh yeaaaah.
The Aussies have become a cohesive unit. They were playing at home, that too at the Gabba – where they haven't lost a match in three decades.
Not surprising, then.#AUSvPAK
— Incorruptible (@Neeeaaaooow) November 24, 2019
Travis Head & Tim Paine were outscored by Yasir Shah!! Come on pull up your socks coz NZL will be all over you blokes. Carey & Pucovski waiting in the wings #AUSvPAK
— Umair (@imumair10) November 24, 2019
Need 5 test series. 2 or 3 test matches aren't enough. Pak needs more matches to adjust. #AUSvPAK
— Danyal (@Danny_danyal23) November 24, 2019
World Test Championship
300 – India
116 – Australia
60 – New Zealand
60 – Sri Lanka
56 – England
0 – Pakistan#INDvBAN #AUSvPAK— 🚶 (@SYDNEY159_) November 24, 2019
Expected Results . Till the time our Batsmen won't learn from their mistakes , such results will come our way . Some Horrible Shot Selections and flaws in the selection of Playing XI caused us the match . Huge Round of applause for Labuschagne and Warner 👏#AUSvPAK #AUSvsPAK
— Muhammad Sameer ✪ (@iamsameer_s10) November 24, 2019
would have been a moral victory for Pakistan if they made OZ bat again. they couldnt do that either #AUSvPAK
— Kaptaan Kohli ~ (@siedry_) November 24, 2019
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