Three Day tour game, Pakistan skittle Australia A for 122
Pakistan produced a brilliant bowling display in the second session of the penultimate day of the three day tour game to dismiss Australia A for just 122 runs at Perth Stadium.
A star-studded Australia A side were bowled out for 122 in the three day tour match in Perth. Cameron Bancroft was the only batsmen to provide some resistance to Pakistan's bowlers.
Pakistan's bowlers set the tone early with Imran Khan sending Joe Burns packing for a golden duck. Fellow Test hopefuls Marcus Harris, Usman Khawaja, Travis Head and Will Pucovski also fell cheaply as the hosts crumbled on day two of the pink-ball clash at Optus Stadium.
Pakistan were 0-7 at stumps, leading by 313 runs in the three-day match.
Australia A were reeling at 9-57 in reply to Pakistan’s 428 before Bancroft (49) and Riley Meredith (19no) restored some pride, batting longer for the 10th wicket than the first nine combined.
The resistance came to an end when left-arm quick Shaheen Shah Afridi found Bancroft’s edge shortly before stumps.
Having only been added to the XI when Nic Maddinson withdrew on mental health grounds, Bancroft gave Australian coach Justin Langer and chief selector Trevor Hohns something to think about after coming in at No.6 and facing 155 balls.
Veteran seamer Imran Khan (5-32) spoiled Australia A bat-off on a pitch that appeared to have livened up significantly from a tame opening day.
Pakistan’s depleted pace brigade got some assistance from a pitch that appeared to have livened up after a tame opening day.
Head (13) and Khawaja (6) both fell to the part-time offspin of Iftikhar Ahmed, Head picking out backward point and Khawaja caught behind.
Imran then found the edge of Pucovski (5), who had been duelling with Head to claim the vacant middle-order spot in Australia’s Test side. Australia A skipper Alex Carey chopped on to an Imran delivery for a seventh- ball duck to give Pakistan a crack at the tail.
The collapse came despite Pakistan being a bowler down with 16-year-old quick Naseem Shah withdrawn following the overnight death of his mother. The tourists opted not to replace Naseem, preferring to retain the tour match’s first-class status.
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