Boxing Day Test Day1 of pak vs aus match there are some good and bad perfomances by the players player of both teams.
Test match first day was rain effected today we only sees the gameplay of 66 over in first day.
Summary
Stumps Australia 187 for 3 (marnus 44 ,usman 42 ,head 9, salman 1-5) vs Pakistan it is showing that both team show some good perfomances.
Toss
Pakistani captian shan masood won the toss and hhe decided to bowl first according to their plans.
Playing XI
Pakistan go with 4 fast bowlers and keep their confidence on part time spinner salman rather than going for sajid who was a specialist.
So there were three changes in pak playing XI sarfraz , khurram and faheem got left out and rizwan ,hamza and hassan got included in the side.
These wer the changes in pak team from last match at perth.
Australian go with same XI from last time there was no change in australian XI for boxing day test day1.
Session 1
First session completely blongs to australian team they loss only one wicket which was at the end of session.
David warner wicket was the end of session one and in this session pak also drop catches of batsmans.
Pak gives chances to australian batters to get settled on the wicket by dropping their catches this was the main story.
Fielding is big concerning area for pak as they drops warner catches who have brilliant record against pak.
At the end of the first session pak team get some sort of relief as they got warner wicket.
This was was the time of some sort of happiness for pak team in the fist session because warner has very good record against pakistan.
And one other things from the bowlers were good they does not give easy runs.
Session 2
Second session was very good for pakistan as pakistan does not give much runs.
And pak got also able to get rid from also second opener usman khawaja early in second session.
Hassan ali who was making his comback took wicket of khawaja with a peach of delivery and get rid of usman.
And that rain also play his game and makes match rain effected and make end of second session of game.
Hassan ali who got wicket of usman was main story of second session.
Session 3
After the end of shower game again start smith and marnus well tackeled pak pace battrey.
Pak bowlers does some good bowling and does not give easy runs to smith and manus.
Amir jamal got the wicket of smith by caught behind changing review by DRS method.
Pak team does not get more wickets but they keep run rate of scoring less than 3 in a over this was the one good thing.
Marnus play like a wall against the pakistani bowlers and showing that why he is main part of aus set up and one of the best test cricketer in the world.
Marnus play innings of 44 runs on a difficult pitch where conditions are completely supporting for the bowlers.
He will be ready for the challange against pak bowlers after smith wicket.
Because smith and him are technically strong players in their side who played good in any condition.
Report
At the end of first day both teams are completely level as aus not loose much wickets and pak does not give much runs.
So both teams are at ballancing position know it all depend on perfomance of other day that how good they play.
Pak team need to work on their feilding and need to make less mistakes and grab the chances which are creates.
Abdullah and babar are two player on which pak will depend because they are technically sound players.
Next day pak need to wrap up early first innings and then makes good perfomances with bat.
It will be difficult for pak team batters against the exprience australian attack in their home conditions.
