Sports Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Rajeev Rai
Updated Tue, 08 Mar 2022 07:18 PM IST
Summary
The first test match played between Pakistan and Australia in Rawalpindi ended in a draw. In the match that lasted five days, Pakistan’s opener Imam-ul-Haq scored centuries in both the innings, while the Australian bowlers could take only four wickets.
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Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat in the match and declared after scoring 476 runs in the first innings. In reply, the Australian team was all out after scoring 459 runs. After this, Pakistan scored 252 runs in the second innings without losing any wicket on the last day and took a total lead of 269 runs. But in the end, after the consent of both the teams, the match was ended an hour before the scheduled time.
Imam, playing his first Test match since November 2019, scored 157 runs in the first innings and then remained unbeaten on 111 in the second innings. He set the record with opening partner Abdullah Shafiq. Shafiq and Imam have become the first Pakistan opening pair to have a century partnership in both the innings of a Test match against Australia. The two shared a 105-run partnership in Pakistan’s first innings. Their second innings partnership is a new record for Pakistan against Australia. He broke the record of 249 runs between Khalid Ibadullah and Abdul Qadir in Karachi in 1964. Shafiq also scored an unbeaten 136 in the second innings and scored the first century of his Test career.
Earlier in the morning, Australia advanced their first innings at 449 for seven and in the first hour itself, their team was bowled out for 459 runs. In this way, Pakistan took a 17-run lead in the first innings. Pakistan’s left-arm spinner Noman Ali took six for 107 in a career-best performance. The 35-year-old Noman, playing his eighth Test, took two of the last three wickets.
Apart from these, Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali scored 185 runs in the first innings, while Usman Khawaja (97), Marnus Labuschagne (90), Steve Smith (78) and David Warner (68) scored half-centuries for Australia.