Pak vs Aus Day3 of test match where pak bowlers shows their dominance and mitchell marsh and smith tackle them well.
Both of teams played good competitive cricket on day three and fought hard to kept their teams in the game.
Mir hamza ,shaheen afridi ,mitchell marsh and steven smith were top perfomers from their sides on day three.
Match Summary
Australia 318 and 187 for 6 (marsh 96, smith 50 ,hamza 3-27, shaheen 3-58) lead Pakistan 264 (abdullah 62, shan 54 ,cummins 5-48 ,lyon 4-73) by 241 runs
Session 1
Session 1 of day 3 was started by muhammad rizwan and aamer jamal they both played well in this session.
As they both cosumes so many overs of first session and aus takes some time to bowled out pakistan team on 264.
Australian team takes the lead over pak of 54 runs and it was very benificial for them as they loss early wickets.
Aamir jamal stayed unbeaten on 33 runs and whole pak team got bowled out and australian team come on for bat 15 munites before lunch.
In first two overs of shaheen shah afridi aus opener usman khawaja and marnus got out before the luch break.
Marnus wicket was the last bowl of the first session and after that bails getted off and players went out for launch.
This was the main story from first session of pak vs aus day3 of second test match.
Sessions 2
In the second session steven smith and david warner comes on to bat as this was start of second session.
The first half an hour of second was the disastor for australian team as mir hamza bowled out warner and travis head in two deliveries.
First hamza bowled out david warner there was fortuine involve their but head bowled out was the peach of delivery by hamza.
This was the one point where pak was looking top of the game and pak chances increased to win this match.
But mitchell marsh and steven started building partnership and pak fielding completely helping to them by droping catches.
It was seeming like that as fortuine tilted towards the australian sides as they loss no wicket and started building partnership.
Mir hamza was the main storey of session three as he does not give more runs and takes most important wickets.
One his comback hamza grab his chance and utilized the oportunity with brilliant swing bowling and create difficulties for batsman.
In session two pak bowled well but drop some easy catches of pak australian team and give them chances to comback.
Session 3
In this session steven smith and mitchell marsh strat the innings from where they left before the break.
Pak team tried their best but these batter does not give any sort of chances as smith block one side and marsh carry on his own way.
Mitchell marsh fluently first made his fifty and after that he was charging towards hundred but unfotunately he does not complete.
Mir hamza breaks the partnership of 153 when takes wickets of marsh through an exceptional catch by salman ali agha in slip.
As that was the reason of exceptional innings of 96 runs by the marsh as he missed an other hundred.
After the wicket of marsh steven smith also looses his wicket after completing his half century.
Afridi brilliant bouncer takes the wicket of the steven smith and takes the sixth wicket down of australian team.
And day end on when score was 187 for 6.
Report
The main storey of day is that aus bowled out pak in the first session and taken the lead of 54 runs.
Start of the australian 2nd innings was disastor for them as they loose 4 early wicket on only 16 runs.
Mitchell marsh and steven smith rescued australian team and make partnership of 153 runs.
Afridi and hamza were top bowlers from their sides as they both take 3,3 wickets each by both of them.