Younis creates history helping Pakistan fight back

He became the only Australian player after Herbie Collins to have scored 50-plus score in at least one innings in the first four Test matches.

After the disastrous run out of Azhar Ali for 71 Pakistan started to fall apart with no other batsman cracking twenty as yet.

Since Australia hit rock bottom when all out for 85 in Hobart almost two months ago there have been eight hundreds scored by members of this top six, seven of them now against Pakistan. Renshaw also successfully overturned a leg before wicket decision to leg-spinner Yasir Shah on 137 when a review showed he had edged onto his pad. Younus finally broke his run of poor scores and mediocre form by posting his first century on Australian soil, the 34 of his career and his fourth against the Australians. He had fewer wickets at Bellerive and the WACA, but nowhere was his bowling average worse than at the SCG, where in five Tests he had 13 wickets at 54.15.

I realise that this kind of suggests that there was someone who thought Hilton Cartwright was the answer to it, and as unlikely as it seems, apparently these people do exist.

“It’s probably his last tour to Australia so it’s a really happy moment for each and everyone of us”.

Azhar hesitated and was left stranded as Mitchell Starc swooped and hurled the ball to Peter Handscomb, who was standing in behind the stumps for the sick Matt Wade.

Younis drove Lyon to a diving fielder at short midwicket and hesitated, leading to some indecision with Azhar before Starc swooped in to throw back to the wicketkeeper.

I think hes been fantastic, coach Mickey Arthur said, reported AAP.

In the same match, he also reached 1,000 runs against Australia.

Pakistan will resume at 126 for two with Azhar Ali on 58 and Younis Khan on 64 in reply to Australia’s 538 for eight declared. However, in the process, he hit the wickets with his bat.

It was Smith’s eighth catch in what has been a brilliant fielding series for the Australia skipper.

Lyon was then given an odd one-over break but returned to bamboozle Wahab Riaz with a well-flighted delivery that spun sharply between bat and pad.

Here are the talking points from the day’s play the Sydney Cricket Ground.

It was the second nasty blow to the head Renshaw had copped in the match.