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***Official*** Pakistan in Australia 2023/24

Shady Slim

International Coach
The dropped catch and rather excessive extras really making the difference in this game.
yeah pakistan did everything they need to do to win here, they just came undone and were really anticlutch in some big moments. great match though and gave us a big scare

the height of the new england patriots dynasty, it wasn’t just that the pats were great but also opponents seemed to always pull some really anticlutch moments and pak did that this match. still gave it a mighty shake
 

quincywagstaff

International Debutant
Good to have such an interesting, challenging Test in Australia after (except for last India tour) so many duds in recent years.

Cummins the obvious difference between the two sides; back to his absolute best after struggling in the latter stages of the Ashes.
 

Shady Slim

International Coach
not to talk in terms of winviz but it felt like after day one, the match was a series of, aus are on top, pakistan get the game to 55-45 their way, then something or other happens to swing the game back in aus’s favour. big something in that regard was the mighty cumster who was just enormous, incredible!
 

The_CricketUmpire

U19 Captain
Australia win by 79 runs. As mentioned Mitch Marsh made 96. On 20 he was dropped at 1st slip...absolute sitter. So he added 76 runs, so take 76 away from the winning margins and Australia win by 3 runs but with the margin being so small it's 50/50....Pakistan should of won it. Can't keep on dropping easy catches...
 

Spark

Global Moderator
yeah pakistan did everything they need to do to win here, they just came undone and were really anticlutch in some big moments. great match though and gave us a big scare

the height of the new england patriots dynasty, it wasn’t just that the pats were great but also opponents seemed to always pull some really anticlutch moments and pak did that this match. still gave it a mighty shake
I mean, winning a game here would have been a monumental achievement. "Taking positives in defeat" is often overrated but they should definitely do that here, they'll play worse and win Tests in many places. It's definitely the most competitive performance they've put up on these shores in a long time, even moreso than the Asad Shafiq one which honestly was never quite as close as the scoreboard suggests.
 

NotMcKenzie

International Debutant
In fact, the Shafique margin is really greater than the 76 runs he scored afterwards, because it also gave Smith a longer partnership.
 

quincywagstaff

International Debutant
yeah pakistan did everything they need to do to win here, they just came undone and were really anticlutch in some big moments. great match though and gave us a big scare

the height of the new england patriots dynasty, it wasn’t just that the pats were great but also opponents seemed to always pull some really anticlutch moments and pak did that this match. still gave it a mighty shake
As well as they played at times in this match, I just never believed Pakistan would win this match. They have such a mental block over performing in Australia Tests for so long that it always felt they would crack under pressure when it mattered.

If it hadn't have been the Marsh drop it probably would've been some other point later in the match.
 

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
Australia win by 79 runs. As mentioned Mitch Marsh made 96. On 20 he was dropped at 1st slip...absolute sitter. So he added 76 runs, so take 76 away from the winning margins and Australia win by 3 runs but with the margin being so small it's 50/50....Pakistan should of won it. Can't keep on dropping easy catches...
In short, catches win matches.
 

Spark

Global Moderator
Incidentally there can't have been too many times that the number 8 onwards have contributed precisely 0 runs in a completed all-out innings.
 

Gob

International Coach
I mean, winning a game here would have been a monumental achievement. "Taking positives in defeat" is often overrated but they should definitely do that here, they'll play worse and win Tests in many places. It's definitely the most competitive performance they've put up on these shores in a long time, even moreso than the Asad Shafiq one which honestly was never quite as close as the scoreboard suggests.
It was before that but Sydney 10 was the closest they came to winning in Australia
 

quincywagstaff

International Debutant
I mean, winning a game here would have been a monumental achievement. "Taking positives in defeat" is often overrated but they should definitely do that here, they'll play worse and win Tests in many places. It's definitely the most competitive performance they've put up on these shores in a long time, even moreso than the Asad Shafiq one which honestly was never quite as close as the scoreboard suggests.
It was their best Test performance in Oz since 09/10 Sydney.

I know they got closer statistically in Brisbane 16/17, but Oz dominated the first 3 days and only through not enforcing the follow on and a declaration did they give Pakistan a chance.
 

Spark

Global Moderator
It was before that but Sydney 10 was the closest they came to winning in Australia
It was their best Test performance in Oz since 09/10 Sydney.

I know they got closer statistically in Brisbane 16/17, but Oz dominated the first 3 days and only through not enforcing the follow on and a declaration did they give Pakistan a chance.
I discount Sydney 09/10 because of literally everything that happened on the final day, that was just a disgrace from start to finish.
 

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