AUS vs PAK Pitch Report: Sydney Cricket Ground will be hosting the second T20I game between Australia and Pakistan on Saturday. The venue offers a balanced surface in white-ball cricket with an average first innings score of 160 in T20I cricket.
"I hope I put a smile on everyone's face with the way that I played and hopefully the young kids out there can follow in my footsteps. White ball cricket to Test cricket. It's the pinnacle of our sport," David Warner said at SCG on Saturday.
David Warner retires from Test cricket after playing his final match in Sydney against Pakistan. He helped his team beat the visitors on Day 4 of the Test match and signed off in style with a fifty. Warner scored a fifty in his final innings at the SCG.
Australia secured the three-match series at home with dominant wins in Perth and Melbourne and now will be looking at another positive result against Pakistan in their first international match of the year 2024 at Sydney Cricket Ground starting on January 3.
The veteran Australian opener fell on 38 runs in the first innings of the second Test match against Pakistan at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday and will play his farewell red-ball game in Sydney starting on January 3, 2024.
India played 12 Tests and have won only one, back in 1978, while losing five games and six other ended in a draw.
The areas of Berala and Smithfield, which are just 30-odd kilometres from the SCG have been put on alert.
The SCG has been given the go-ahead to host the third Test between Australia and India, scheduled to start from January 7. While the third Test will be played in Sydney, the fourth game of the four-match series will get underway in Brisbane.
Recent Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney had put the fate of the third Test at the SCG in jeopardy.
The board contingency plan is to work with Victorian government to host the Australia vs India third Test in Melbourne if Sydney is rendered untenable to host the game over COVID-19 surge in the region.
Cricket Australia (CA) was put on high alert earlier this month after an outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in the northern beaches in Sydney, which is scheduled to host the third Test from January 7.
Cricket Australia interim chief executive Nick Hockley says two and a half weeks time before the third Test keeps them hopeful despite closure of New South Wales border recently due to COVID-19.
Australia vs India: The Daily Telegraph has reported that the New Year’s Test in Sydney could be shifted to another venue due to rising number of COVID-19 cases in New South Wales.
The opening T20 will be played at Canberra’s Manuka Oval on Friday followed by the second game in Sydney on Sunday.
India have won just two of their last 15 encounters played at the SCG where the limited-over series will begin this Friday.
The vision, available on the NFSA website, shows Bradman striding onto the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) during a testimonial match.
Yuvraj Singh and Sachin Tendulkar visited the Sydney Cricket Ground and took a look at the honours board at the SCG.
Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar and West Indies bowling great Courtney Walsh will coach the Ricky Ponting XI and Shane Warne XI, respectively.
According to NSW Cricket, the SCG pitch square was damaged when the Roosters trained on it a fortnight ago ahead of the NRL final and it is not fit to host a first-class match.
Sydney: With a place in the One-Day International (ODI) tri-series final booked, Australia coach Darren Lehmann Saturday said he would experiment with their eleven in Monday's clash against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
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