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26 Sports Sunday, December 1, 2019 Warner hits 335, Smith shatters record as Pakistan suffer in second Test Pakistan in deep trouble at 96 for six ADELAIDE: An irrepressible David Warner smashed an SCOREBOARD unbeaten 335 yesterday while Steve Smith became the fastest man to 7,000 Test runs as Australia took control Scoreboard at the end of day two of the pink-ball of the day-night second Test against Pakistan. second cricket Test between Australia and Pakistan at Skipper Tim Paine waved his players back into the Adelaide Oval yesterday: pavilion at 589 for three ahead of the second day’s din- ner break with Warner on the 10th highest Test score Pakistan 1st innings ever, also a personal best. The decision to declare S. Masood c Paine b Hazlewood 19 deprived him of a crack at Brian Lara’s all-time high 400 not out, but it proved to be the right one with the Imam-ul-Haq c Warner b Starc 2 Australian bowlers quickly tearing through Pakistan’s A. Ali c Smith b Cummins 9 hapless top order under the Adelaide Oval lights. A. Shafiq c Paine b Starc 9 They finished in deep trouble at 96 for six with B. Azam not out 43 Mitchell Starc grabbing four of them. Babar Azam was I. Ahmed c Paine b Starc 10 not out 43 and Yasir Shah was on four. “It’s just sunk in M. Rizwan c Paine b Starc 0 to me that it is very rare that you get these opportuni- Y. Shah not out 4 ties... I’ll cherish this moment for the rest of my life, def- Extras 0 initely,” said Warner on making such a big score. “More importantly, the partnerships we put on. It Total (six wickets; 35 overs) 96 just showed how much pride we have as a batting unit Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Iman-ul-Haq), 2-22 (Azhar), 3-38 running between the wickets. “If I’m doing my job well (Masood), 4-69 (Shafiq), 5-89 (Ahmed), 6-89 and putting the team in the best position, we’re going (Rizwan) to win a lot of games,” he added. Still to bat: Shaheen Afridi, Muhammad Musa, The visitors, who have lost 13 consecutive Tests in Mohammad Abbas Australia, enjoyed little success in a long day in the field Bowling: Starc 13-5-22-4, Hazlewood 8-2-29-1, as they look to avoid a 2-0 series defeat. But they did remove Marnus Labuschagne for 162 in the opening Cummins 14-1-45-1 ADELAIDE: Australian batsman David Warner (C) is congratulated by teammates Nathan Lyon (L) and Pat session and also bagged Smith, caught behind by Cummins (R) after scoring 335 not out against Pakistan on the second day of the second cricket Test match in Mohammad Rizwan off Shaheen Afridi for 36. Adelaide yesterday. — AFP Australia 1st innings (overnight 302-1) In making his runs, Smith shattered a record that had J. Burns c Rizwan b Afridi 4 stood since 1946. He took a single off Muhammad Musa D. Warner not out 335 to reach 7,000 runs in his 126th innings, taking posses- 162, his second century in a row. Their marathon 361- Taylor’s epic 334 against Pakistan in 1998 and Donald M. Labuschagne b Afridi 162 sion of a mark held for 73 years by English great Wally run partnership was a record second-wicket stand for Bradman’s 334 against England in 1930, before Paine S. Smith c Rizwan b Afridi 36 Hammond who reached the milestone in his 131st Australia against Pakistan and the highest ever in a decided to unleash his bowlers, conscious that rain is pink-ball Test. forecast for the next two days. M. Wade not out 38 innings. Smith also moved past legendary countryman Donald Bradman’s 6,996 Test runs to become Minutes later, Warner completed only the second Exhausted, Warner was given a hero’s send off by Extras (lb6, nb7, w1) 14 Australia’s 11th highest scorer. Test double century of his career. Playing in his 81st the crowd with his knock the second best ever by an Total (3 wickets dec; 127 overs) 589 The home team resumed the day at 302 for one with Test, he reached 200 with a single from Afridi, having Australian after Matthew Hayden’s 380 against Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Burns), 2-369 (Labuschagne), 3- Warner on 166 and Labuschagne 126, with the pair put- clattered 23 fours along the way. Zimbabwe in 2003. Matthew Wade remained unbeaten 490 (Smith) ting on another 67 runs before Pakistan finally got a Pakistan thought they finally had him out on 226 on 38. Did not bat: Travis Head, Tim Paine, Pat Cummins, breakthrough. Skipper Azhar Ali took the new ball and when he was caught in the gully off debutant Musa, Facing a tough last session under lights, Pakistan’s Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood Afridi clean-bowled Labuschagne as he attempted a only for their heads to drop when it was called a no- batsmen quickly caved in. Starc removed Imam-ul-Haq, Bowling: Abbas 29-7-100-0, Afridi 30-5-88-3, Musa drive, just as he and Warner appeared set for another ball. Warner made them pay, passing his previous high- who got a thick edge to Warner on two, before Pat long day at the crease. est Test score of 253, set in Perth in 2015, before reach- Cummins had Azhar caught for nine. Josh Hazlewood 20-1-114-0, Yasir 32-1-197-0, Ahmed 15-0-75-0, The 25-year-old, who has come of age during the ing a triple century off 389 balls to join an elite club. accounted for Shan Masood before Starc nabbed Asad Azhar 1-0-9-0. series, trudged off to a standing ovation after a classy He raced to 335, one more than former captain Mark Shafiq, Iftikhar Ahmed and Rizwan cheaply. — AFP NZ take control of second SCOREBOARD Scoreboard at stumps on day two of the second Test between New Zealand and England in England Test with early wickets Hamilton yesterday: India rout Pakistan New Zealand 1st innings (overnight 173-3) 8-357 (Southee), 9-375 (Santner), 10-375 WELLINGTON: Tim Southee and Matt in the mire at stumps with Burns dropped J. Raval c Root b Broad 5 (Wagner) 4-0 to seal Davis Henry removed both England openers as on 10 by Ross Taylor at first slip off Henry T. Latham b Broad 105 Bowling: Broad 28-7-73-4, Archer 28-8-75-1, New Zealand reduced the tourists to 39-2 and again, from a more difficult chance, K. Williamson c Root b Woakes 4 Woakes 31-6-83-3, Curran 23.1-7-63-2, Root and took control of the second Test by on 19 by Jeet Raval at midwicket off R. Taylor c Root b Woakes 53 3-0-14-0, Stokes 13-5-36-0, Denly 3-0-13-0 Cup qualifiers spot the close of play on the second day at Southee. H. Nicholls c Broad b Curran 16 Seddon Park in Hamilton yesterday. New England’s pace attack had earlier B. Watling c Burns b Broad 55 England 1st innings NUR-SULTAN: Veteran Leander Paes improved Zealand had been dismissed for 375 dragged their side back into the game D. Mitchell c Archer b Broad 73 R. Burns not out 24 his Davis Cup record to 44 doubles wins yestr- about an hour after tea and hold a 336- with a fiery spell of short-pitched bowling M. Santner c Woakes b Archer 23 D. Sibley lbw Southee 4 dayas India thrashed Pakistan 4-0 in the run lead heading into the third day of a at New Zealand’s tail after Stuart Broad T. Southee c Pope b Woakes 18 J. Denly c Watling b Henry 4 Asia/Oceania tie played at a neutral venue due to match that England need to win to level had broken a 124-run stand between M. Henry not out 5 J. Root not out 6 political tensions between the arch-rivals. the two-test series. debutant Daryl Mitchell (73) and Watling N. Wagner c Sibley b Curran 0 Extras: (lb1) 1 The 46-year-old Paes combined with Jeevan Extras: (b15, lb3) 18 Total: (two wickets; 18 overs) 39 Rory Burns was on 24 at the close of (55). “When I was sitting on zero I wasn’t Nedunchezhiyan to serve out Pakistan’s teenage Total: (all out; 129.1 overs) 375 Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Sibley), 2-24 (Denly) play, having survived two dropped catch- that calm,” Mitchell said. “So it was nice Fall of wickets: 1-16 (Raval), 2-39 (Williamson), Bowling: Southee, 8-1-24-1, Henry 7-3-10-1, pair of Muhammad Shoaib and Huzaifa Abdul es, with captain Joe Root on six and look- to get a run and get started and the more 3-155 (Taylor), 4-182 (Latham), 5-191 Wagner 2-0-3-0,Mitchell 1-0-1-0 Rehman 6-1, 6-3 in the Kazakhstan capital of Nur- ing uncomfortable at the crease as he time you spend out there the easier it (Nicholls), 6-315 (Watling), 7-330 (Mitchell), Series: New Zealand lead 1-0. Sultan. battles with a precipitous drop in form does get. “But England bowled very well. Paes, who overtook Italy’s Nicola Pietrangeli as over the last year. Opening batsman Dom They were very patient at times and built Davis Cup’s most successful doubles player with Sibley was trapped in front by Southee pressure and asked good questions.