Sydney Test: Australia 224/2 at tea break

I guess it depends how much we’ll use him, how the game goes. “He’s been very positive”, former skipper Ian Chappell said on the Nine Network.

Pakistan traveled to Sydney on New Year’s Eve and cancelled training on the first day of the year.

Smith will play his 50th Test this week at the SCG, a milestone that has allowed the gifted right-hander a brief moment to reflect on what he has already achieved. He salvaged the only thing he could in that second dig.

“That first session was something of a whirlwind”, Renshaw said.

Warner accelerated the pace of the innings in the second over where he dispatched Imran Khan for two consecutive boundaries. “That’s why we’ve gone with the two spin option”.

And while a tour of India has broken plenty of batsmen’s careers in the past, Burns now sits behind Shaun Marsh in the pecking order, while his disappointing tour of Sri Lanka hardly builds his case as a subcontinental saviour.

Would Shaun Marsh come in for the expense of Renshaw in a horses-for-courses policy with Marsh’s most recent red ball form glowing? I didn’t want to retire hurt on 91. he asked me the score, and who the last person out was, but I got them pretty right.

Renshaw had scored just 25 at lunch but accelerated so rapidly that he was 167 not out at the close of day one.

“It was awesome to watch – I had it on all day”, Burns told bigbash.com.au of Warner and Renshaw’s performances. “I have to think about that, haven’t finalised it”.

Former chief selector and Test batsman Haroon Rasheed feels that the damning loss in Melbourne left the team exhausted and mentally worn out, and once the Australians started on an aggressive note, there was no coming back for Misbahul Haq’s men.

“I worked as hard as I could in the nets”.

“I’ve always seen myself as more of a batsman and that’s probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, to put that (bowling) on the backburner and just concentrate on my batting”.

Misbah to captain Pakistan in Sydney Test was posted in Sports of TheNews International – https://www.thenews.com.pk on January 02, 2017 and was last updated on January 02, 2017.

However, the team management on Sunday confirmed that he will lead the side in the inconsequential third Test starting January 3. Shoehorn him in there somewhere if you have to or select him as cover.