Twitter Reactions: Massive centuries from Imam-ul-Haq and Azhar Ali propel Pakistan to 476
Australia trail by 471 runs at the end of Day 2 with ten wickets in hand.
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After a painful day one, the Australian side had to come up with different plans to unsettle the Pakistan batters on day two but it wasn’t the case straightaway. Imam Ul Haq started the day on 132 and he was quite determined to make it big on the second day while his partner Azhar Ali was nearing his well deserved century. Both the batters were happy to take the time initially, while Lyon stayed on to his tough lines grinding in the whole day.
Imam after reaching a fantastic 150, was finally dismissed in the 121st over of the Test by Australia’s skipper Pat Cummins and it ended the massive double-century partnership stand playing out almost 90 overs. However, Azhar continued his fine form against Australia with the bat raising his 19th Test century and got his strike rate up once he reached three-figure mark while skipper Babar Azam was happy to take his time to start with as well.
Azhar soon reached his 150 run mark and was quite comfortable at the crease adding another century run partnership with Azam. However, a fantastic throw from Marnus Labuchagne caught the latter short of the crease while he was on 82 ball- 36. Azhar meanwhile, was striking the ball nicely and his marathon innings finally came to an end for 185 having faced 361 deliveries.
The right-hander hit 15 fours and three sixes in his huge knock and was finally dismissed from the bowling of Marnus Labuschagne to miss out on a well deserved double hundred. Mohammad Rizwan and Ifthikhar Ahmed got some fairly quick runs on the board as the home side decided to declare on 476 for the loss of four wickets having batted 162 overs.
The tiring legs of David Warner and Usman Khawaja rushed onto the dressing room to open the innings and they had a huge task to be accomplished towards seeing the end of day two. However, bad light came to their rescue as Australia ended day two at five for no loss with just one over bowled in the innings.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to it:
At my home ground supporting my country. Amazing crowd and atmosphere here. This is how we show the world what cricket means to us and how welcoming we are as a country. #PakistanZindabad #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/d2TafFQ4ch
— Shadab Khan (@76Shadabkhan) March 5, 2022
Lovely to see in the Rawalpindi press box. Superb gesture on a very flat day for many Australians #Warne #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/JLPHU5Vz72
— Tom Decent (@tomdecent) March 5, 2022
@davidwarner31 enjoying the crowd of pindi good vibes #PAKvAUS Crowd pic.twitter.com/yywlXbJXM6
— Himayat Ullah Khan (@HimiJaan) March 5, 2022
Slow & dead pitch.. above all low intent so far fading out chances of result in this historic test match. One team have to play very poorly to give a result in this test match. Result oriented cricket is the future of Test cricket not dead drawn games please 🙏
— Mohammad Hafeez (@MHafeez22) March 5, 2022
The Earth is round! #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/jorIifleG3
— Hisban Memon (@hisban_memon) March 5, 2022
The timing of doing this though>>>> #PAKvAUS https://t.co/YVr5Vl2v7c
— Marwah Khan (@MarwahKhan64) March 5, 2022
Misbah karey to tuk tuk defensive
Babar karey to wah wah
Defensive approach After 2 days of batting 500 nahi karsakey dead rubber cement pitch pe
M.HAFEEZ is absolutely correct
Such sunney ki addat nahi yahan logo ko
Innings Declare krtey krtey raat kardi.@MHafeez22 #PAKvAUS— NaumAn Younus (@YounusNauman) March 5, 2022
Congratulations @AzharAli_ and non the less @ImamUlHaq12 for magnificent 150 it is what they did with us when we tour and now they are getting it #AUSvPAK
— Moحid Aلi (@meme_se_mady) March 5, 2022
You are misbah's remaining with low strike rate you just make an iconic match bore
— Umar Adil (@hereiam786) March 5, 2022
Congratulations Bhai 😍
Terrific knock of 150 from @AzharAli_ against Australia #WeAreSomerset pic.twitter.com/doEqt5qlHK
— Somerset Cricket 🏏 (@SomersetCCC) March 5, 2022
Most Test hundreds for Pakistan:
Younis Khan 34
Inzamam-ul-Haq 25
Mohammad Yousuf 24
Javed Miandad 23
Azhar Ali 19#Cricket #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/7uWEWK1QPl— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) March 5, 2022
Azhar Ali reaches his 18th Test century with a lofted four to mid on #PAKvAUS pic.twitter.com/xJSiPenBxq
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) March 5, 2022
Azhar Ali continues to shine 🌟
Watch the first #PAKvAUS Test LIVE and for FREE on https://t.co/CPDKNxoJ9v (in select regions) 📺#WTC23 | https://t.co/oblLRqBJFc pic.twitter.com/Ty0JmGlIKB
— ICC (@ICC) March 5, 2022
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