At the end of the third day of the Melbourne Test match, Australia scored 187 runs for 6 wickets in the second innings and took a lead of 241 runs against Pakistan.
On the third day today, the Pakistan team was bowled out for 264 runs in the first innings, after which Australia started the second innings with a lead of 54 runs.
In the second innings, Australia’s first wicket fell on the second ball of the first over, Usman Khawaja was caught out by Shaheen Shah Afridi for a wicket.
Shaheen Afridi also got the second wicket in the third over, this time he caught out Marnis Labushin for 4 runs.
After taking the first two wickets, Mir Hamza also started taking wickets while bowling brilliantly from the second end.
In 5.1 overs of the Australian innings, Mir Hamza bowled David Warner for 6 runs after which he also bowled Travis Head on the very next ball.
After 4 wickets fell very soon, Australian batsman Steven Smith and Mitchell Marsh formed a partnership, during which Mitchell Marsh scored a half-century in 70 balls with the help of 8 fours.
Thanks to the partnership of Steven Smith and Mitchell Marsh, Australia strengthened its position in the match, after which Mir Hamza took Australia’s fifth wicket in 49.5 overs, he caught Mitchell Marsh out for 96 runs.
Australia’s sixth wicket fell for 187 in 62.3 overs when Steven Smith was caught out by Shaheen Afridi for 50.
Earlier, on the third day of the game, Pakistan team was bowled out for 264 runs in the first innings against Australia.
On the third day of the match, Pakistan started their innings with 194 runs for the loss of 6 wickets.
Shaheen Afridi scored 21 runs, Hasan Ali and Mir Hamza scored 2 runs each while Aamir Jamal scored 33 runs.
Australian skipper Pat Cummins gave a good performance and took 5 wickets for 48 runs, Nathan Lyne took 4 and Josh Hazlewood dismissed one player.
On the second day of the match, Abdullah Shafiq was dismissed for 62, Shaan Masood for 54 and Imamul Haque for 10 runs.
Saud Shakeel was dismissed for 9 and Salman Ali Agha for 5 while Babar Azam failed once again and was bowled by skipper Pete Cummins for one run.
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