David Warner will be playing his last Test series when Australia take on Pakistan in a three-match series at home. Warner had earlier expressed his desire to hang his boots from the format in the home series against the Men in Green.
India TV Sports Wrap on October 21: Australia continued their winning run in the World Cup with a 62-run win against Pakistan in Bengaluru while the shuttler PV Sindhu reached her first Super 750 semi-final of the year. Here are the top 10 trending news stories from the sporting world on October 21.
Australia continued their resurgence in the ongoing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup after losses in the first two games and their win on Friday, October 20 against Pakistan saw them jump up five places to number 4. While David Warner was the star of the show, Mitchell Starc continued to achieve feats.
Australia and Pakistan have locked horns against each other in the 18th match of World Cup 2023. M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru is hosting its first match of the mega event and Pakistan opted to bowl first after winning the toss. They made one change benching Shadab Khan for Usama Mir.
Australia rounded off its first tour to Pakistan in 24 years with a three-wicket victory in the one-off Twenty20.
No. 9 batter Nauman Ali successfully defended 18 balls without scoring and saw off the last eight overs with Rizwan after Pakistan had slipped to 414-7.
Babar was unbeaten on 102 off 198 balls and opening batter Shafique followed his maiden test hundred in the drawn first test with an undefeated 71 off 226 balls to take Pakistan to 192-2 at stumps.
Pakistan, replying to Australia's huge first-innings total of 556-9 declared, was bowled out for just 148 after having spent more than two days toiling in the field.
Pakistan openers Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique scored unbeaten centuries as Pakistan scored 252 without losing any wicket on the fifth and final day of the first Test match.
The Test between hosts Pakistan and Australia ended in a high-scoring draw but visiting skipper Pat Cummins and top batter Steve Smith were not impressed with the quality of the strip.
Imam followed his 157 in the first innings total of 476-4 declared with an unbeaten 111 in his first test since November 2019.
Australian openers Usman Khawaja (5 not out) and David Warner (0 not out) survived the only over from offspinner Sajid Khan to take Australia to 5-0 before umpires ended the day's play due to bad light with 15 overs still remaining. Australia is playing its first test in Pakistan in 24 years.
Australia’s spin bowling consultant Fawad Ahmed also tested positive on Wednesday and will remain in isolation for the next five days.
Haris will remain in isolation for five days and will reintegrate with the squad after a negative test at the end of his isolation period.
Rauf was tipped to make his Test debut since the national selectors had only kept three pacers in the Pakistan squad for the first match, including Shaheen Shah Afridi and Mohammad Wasim junior.
Smith was concussion when he landed on his head while attempting to save a six on the edge of the boundary during a Twenty20 International against Sri Lanka at Sydney.
After thrashing England to retain the Ashes last month, Australia are now the no 1 ranked team in the world.
Pakistan Cricket Board and Cricket Australia on Friday announced the revised schedule of Australia's tour to Pakistan for three Tests, three ODIs and one T20I.
Australia is expected to tour Pakistan in March and it would be the first time since 1998 that Australia would tour Pakistan.
The last time Pakistan had an ICC event on its soil was when it co-hosted the 1996 World Cup along with India and Sri Lanka.
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