A fantastic match of Cricket between Australia Vs Pakistan have been finished.That was a wonderful match ever for both teams.Both teams had played a cricket.Specially Pakistan team played a magical Cricket in Second Inning of the 1st test match.And on the Other Side Australian Captain Steve Smith as well his team mates were looking in trouble but eventually the won the 1st test match by 39 runs against Pakistan team at The Gabba,Brisbane.
Lets go to take a look on this great match.The match was start on 15 Dec.Australia had win the toss and they had decided to bat first.In the first inning Australian team played really well and scored 429/10(130.1).The Captain Steve Smith scored 130 runs and Peter Handscomb Scored 105 runs.On the other side Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz both took 4,4 wickets for Pakistan team.
Pakistan team just Scored 145 runs and all out.Wicket keeper Sarfraz Ahmed Scored 59 runs and he was top scorer from Pakistani team.Mitchell Starc,Josh Hazlewood,Jackson Bird they took 3,3,3 wickets.
Second inning was really wonderful and magical in history of test cricket at The Gabba,Brisbane.
Australian team declared the 2nd inning after scoring just 202/5 as they also had 287 runs in hand by including these runs they had give a huge target of 490 runs to Pakistan cricket team.Steve Smith again played well and scored 63 runs as well Usman khawaja scored 74 runs.Pakistan team played very well in the 2nd inning all players contributed and gave their best as they can give.Asad Shafiq was looking one man army he scored 137,Azhar Ali scored 71 runs,Younis khan scored 65 runs and Mohammad was near to his first half century in test cricket and then out he scored 48 runs.After great struggle Australia won this 1st test match of the series.Lets go to a look on views of both teams captain.
Steve Smith (C):
"I lost all my fingernails. Some game of cricket, wasn't it? It was hard work and a lot of credit has to go to the way the tailenders played. I thought our bowlers stuck at it all day and that wicket of Asad shows the class of Starc and his character to run in with the 60-over old ball and generate that pace to keep bowling his heart out. Had to keep believing all the time. Eight down and just a wicket away from pulling it off and credit to Shafiq and the tail who pushed us all the way.Wouldn't have changed the approach, would have gone in with the same plan even if I got a chance to go back to day three. Our bowlers had bowled a lot of overs and it gave them a chance to put their feet up for a bit. We wanted to bowl at night and we've seen in day-night cricket that most of the wickets fall under the lights. In the end am happy to have got over the line. Was too close a game for my liking [laughs], an amazing game of cricket, an amazing concept and I am sure the ratings were amazing as well. Day-Night cricket is here to stay for sure. Looking forward eagerly to Melbourne, one of the biggest spectacles in the game for the entire country, the Boxing Day. Was nice to hit the stumps from slip, wasn't sure what Yasir Shah was trying to do out there but was thankfully able to close it Out."
Misbah-ul-Haq (C):
" (We were So near) I am very happy. After the first innings when we got out for 142, it looked very difficult for us to make a comeback into this game ad am very happy with the way we came back. A lot of positives,Younis khan getting into form,Azhar Ali doing well at the top,Asad Shafiq playing superbly and the way the tailenders responded was amazing as well. Very proud of this team and our performance in the fourth innings. The hope was always there, I have a lot of belief in this team and that is exactly the reason why we are doing so well in the last six years. Even when Asad fell I was very hopeful. After what we showed in the last couple of days, everyone in the team now has the belief that we could pull things back in the coming matches."