Pakistan vs PM XI(Australia) test match and captain of pak shan masood score a brillant hundred.
Shan masood starts pakistan tour of australia with an unbeaten hundred in this match.
Pakistan vs PM XI match players perfomance
Pakistan PM XI
| Abdullah shafique | 38 runs on 76 balls | Mark steketee | 16 over 43 runs 1 wicket |
| Imam ul haq | 9 runs on 24 balls | Nathan mcandrew | 18.4 over 55 runs 1 wicket |
| Shan masood | 156 runs on 235 balls | Jordan buckingham | 17 over 63 runs 3 wickets |
| Babar azam | 40 runs on 88 balls | Todd murphy | 22 over 90 runs 1 wicket |
| Saud shakeel | 13 runs on 35 balls | Beau webster | 12 over 45 runs 0 wicket |
| Sarfraz ahmed | 41 runs on 47 balls | Nathan mcsweeney | 4 over 21 runs 0 wicket |
| Faheem ashraf | 17 runs on 35 balls |
Match Summary
Pakistan 324 for 6 (shan 156 not out,sarfraz 41 not out,jordan 3-63) vs PM XI
Captian good perfomance
The day before having a first hit out of the tour pakistan captian masood stressed.
The importance of his top order converting starts and he took it upon himself.
To set the standard with an almost faultless century.
On the opening day against the prime minester xi in canberra.
Good decision of batting
On a hot day and faced with the slow pitch pakistan made reasonable use of a chance to bat first.
But it was only masood who fully cashed in as abdullah , babar and sarfraz all departed.
Before making of the most of opportunities which were given to them.
Faheem was caught brilliantly at slip by bencroft what become last ball of day pak closed on 324 for 6.
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Flawless innings
Shan innings was pretty much flawless.
He played brilliantly jordan who took three wickets for the PM XI.
The wicket was obviously conducive to batting but you still have to get out there and get runs.
This was an outstanding innings think he will be in for a pretty good summer.
Shan who recently took over test captiancy from babar went to his hundred shortly after tea.
With the australian prime minister anthony albanese in attendance having returned t ground.
Following his brief morning appearance where he handed out caps and conducted toss.
Importance of making big runs
Shan knows the important of making big runs on this tour to give the bowling a chance of success.
And wants to learn the lessons of the 2019-2020 when he made scores 27, 42 ,19 and 68.
I got a couple of starts but you want to convert those starts in tests and get three figure he said on tuesday.
That will be my test my opportunity.
We got used to conftion in 2019 series very well.Babar got hundred yasir got hundred.
But there were lot of fifties so we want to convert those into matchwinning contributions.
Manuka Oval
The pitch served up at manuka oval after lot of recent rain is unlikely to bear much resemblance to pakistan will face in next week.
The lack of pace was clear early on when an edge from shafique did not carry to the slips who were stood reasonably close.
While later the day wicketkeeper was stood up to buckingham and beau with a ring field.
But still time in the middle cant be discounted for those who managed decent stints.
Imam ul haq could not take his opportunity when he inside edged a drive off buckingham.
A late replacement for michael neser who stared with an wicket maiden to the left hander.
Good first day play
Later in the day masood and sarfraz were able to take advantage against murphy and allrounder ahead of second new ball being taken.
However with the final delivery from the old ball buckingham took his second wicket of sarfraz.
As had been flagged by captain before the game cameron green not used to with ball.
As his workload managed ahead of the test series against pakistan he was not allowed to ball.
The main intrest in the PM XI side will be when their batter get chance on crease to an eye on who could replace warner.
