Twitter Reactions: Steve Smith scores century as Australia take Day 1 honours

After successive series defeats at the hands of Sri Lanka and South Africa, Australia wanted to reverse their Test record in the Test series against Pakistan and their start has been pretty impressive. Courtesy a brilliant century from Steven Smith who was ably supported by half-centurion Peter Handscomb, Australia finished Day 1 of the first Test in Brisbane at 288/3.

Winning the toss and batting first, Australia went off to a solid start. Openers Matt Renshaw and David Warner played out the initial burst from Mohammad Amir and things started looking better for the hosts. Just when the duo had stitched together a 70 run partnership for the opening wicket, Warner shuffled across the leg stump and wanted to flick an Amir delivery. The ball struck him adjacent to the stumps and was adjudged out by on-field umpire Ian Gould.

Usman Khwaja was quick to follow Warner in the dressing room as he fell cheaply to leggie Yasir Shah. He stepped out and tried to flick the ball above the fielder but unfortunately he lobbed it straight to the throat of Misbah-ul-Haq at short mid-wicket. Despite the fall of two quick wickets, Renshaw continued on his merry way and Steve Smith began from where he left in the ODI series against New Zealand. The pair shared a 76 run partnership for the 4th wicket before Renshaw edged an out-swinger from Wahab Riaz to Sarfaraz Ahmed behind the stumps.

Playing only in his 2nd Test, Peter Handscomb joined his captain in the middle and looked settled from the word go. Despite few misses here and there the duo was unnerved and shared an unbroken 137 run stand between them. Smith scored a brilliant century and finished the day on 110, an innings constructed with 16 hits to the fence. Handscomb who was there with his captain at the other end remained unbeaten on 64. Smith survived a close shave when he edged a Mohammad Amir delivery to Sarfaraz Ahmed but the Pakistani fielders didn’t appeal.

Twitteratti was pretty active throughout the day’s play and some of the tweets described the proceedings in the best possible way. Here are some of the best tweets from the 1st day of the Pink Ball Test between Australia and Pakistan.

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