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Australia vs Pakistan 3rd Test Day 4 Highlights: David Warner, Marnus Labuschagne Shine As Australia Beat Pakistan By 8 Wickets
Australia vs Pakistan 3rd Test Day 4 Highlights: Half-centuries from Marnus Labuschagne and David Warner helped Australia register a victory by eight wickets on Day 4 of the third Test against Pakistan
- NDTV Sports Desk
- Updated: January 06, 2024 03:17 am IST
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Australia vs Pakistan 3rd Test Day 4: Australia win by 8 wickets© AFP
Australia vs Pakistan 3rd Test Day 4 Highlights: Half-centuries from Marnus Labuschagne and David Warner helped Australia register a victory by eight wickets on Day 4 of the third Test against Pakistan. With this win, Australia have claimed a 3-0 clean sweep in the three-match series. Chasing 130, Australia lost an early wicket of Usman Khawaja but Warner and Labuschagne stitched a massive partnership. Warner got dismissed for 57 but Labuschagne remained unbeaten at 62. Earlier, Josh Hazlewood scalped four wickets as Australia bundled out Pakistan for 115. This was Warner's last Test match and he finished his career with a memorable fifty. (Scorecard)
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Australia vs Pakistan 3rd Test Day 4 Live
We are back for the run chase! We can see a lovely moment as David Warner walks out to bat one last time in a Test match alongside his childhood friend and he gives Usman Khawaja a hug before stepping on the field of play. The Pakistani players shake his hands and so do the umpires. The target is fairly small but a lot will depend on how the openers go about their business. It will be Sajid Khan to take the new ball and start with his off-breaks. A slip and a short leg in place, let's play...
... FOURTH INNINGS ...
Right then, the stage is set for David Warner in his farewell Test match that too at his home ground, the Sydney Cricket Ground and he will be nervous and excited to come to bat for one last time and try and take his team to the win. The pitch though has a lot of rough patches now and the Pakistani bowlers certainly won't make it easy for him and the other Aussie batters. Join us in a few minutes time for the all-important run chase.
A fascinating passage of play early on Day 4 but in the end it is Australia who have a big chance of sweeping the series 3-0 as they need 130 runs to win. It wasn't the start the hosts were expecting with the ball when Day 4 began as Mohammad Rizwan and Aamer Jamal put on a gritty stand of 42 runs and even scored freely at times. After persisting for a long time, Nathan Lyon finally broke the stand by dismissing Rizwan, and then almost instantly, Pat Cummins got rid of Jamal as well. Hasan Ali and Mir Hamza then hung around for a few more overs before Lyon finished proceedings with his third wicket.
OUT! BOWLED'EM! Nathan Lyon gets his third and it's curtains for Pakistan. Tossed up delivery just outside off, Hasan Ali gets down on his knee for a sweep shot but misses entirely on it as the ball spins sharply into the batter and disrupts the middle stump by sneaking through the gap between the bat and the pad. Pakistan have lost their last three wickets in a hurry and have been bundled up on 115 and have ended with a lead of just 129 runs. There's a huge cheer from the SCG crowd as it's now time for David Warner to walk out in the middle for one last time to bat.
Beaten. On a good length, outside off, Mir Hamza goes in with a full swing of bat for the drive but gets beaten on all ends.
Pitches this on the hard length, around the channel of off, Mir Hamza tries to push at it but gets an inside edge onto the pads.
That one seemed to have stuck to the pitch. Short of a length, down the leg side, Mir Hamza lets it go past to the keeper.
On a length, around middle and off, Mir Hamza blocks it with a straight bat.
Short of a length, drifting down the leg side, Hasan Ali swives across to pull and manages to get a glove to it. The ball trickles through to fine leg for a single.
Bang on. Pitches on the hard length, into the stumps, Hasan Ali does well to block it on the back foot.
Floats it up and drops it down the leg side on a fullish length, Mir Hamza goes for a flick shot but gets late on it and takes the leading edge which falls just short of David Warner at second slip.
Drags his length this time outside off, Mir Hamza defends it and gets the leading edge of the bat to silly point.
How has that missed the stumps? Bowls from around the wicket this time and drops it on the stump line which explodes a bit from the deck, Mir Hamza strides for a defence and gets beaten on the outside edge and the ball just goes past flirting with his bat over the middle stump and to the keeper. That has been missed by a few milimeters.
Shorter in length and on the pads, Hasan Ali stays in the crease and swivels for a pull towards backward square leg for a single.
Bowls a fullish delivery around the off stump, Hasan Ali defends it this time towards the bowler off the front foot.
Drops it on a fuller length around off, Hasan Ali goes for a reverse sweep but misses out to connect.
Great ball. Pitched on a length, nipping a bit, outside off, Mir Hamza tries to poke at it but gets beaten on the outside edge.
Oh wow, those are very handy runs. Pat Cummins bowls this wider on off, just a fraction short, Hasan Ali guides the ball through the gap past point. The batters get three runs to take the lead to 127 now.
Goes fuller, into the stumps, Mir Hamza flicks it nicely to deep square leg and gets a single.