Pakistan dismiss Australia for 88 at Headingley
Australia have been dismissed for just 88 in the first innings of their Test match against Pakistan at Leeds.
It’s the second-lowest Test innings total the Aussies have made against Pakistan, behind only the 80 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746’s Test team was dismissed for by Pakistan in Karachi back in 1956.
As http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s pacemen reigned supreme, Ricky Ponting’s side had no answers and by lunch had been reduced to a disheartening 73-6.
The innings immediately lurched from bad to worse when play resumed, with Mohammad Aamer rattling Steven Smith’s stumps with his first ball of the second session, and then replicating the feat with an even better delivery the next ball, which crashed into Mitchell Johnson’s off stump to send him back to the pavilion for a golden duck.
Aamer missed out on the hat-trick as his next ball whizzed past the edge of Ben Hilfenhaus’ bat, but the teenager ultimately ended the innings with team-best figures of 3-20, after earlier in the day getting Pakistan’s wicket-fest started when he trapped Simon Katich lbw for just 13.
Tim Paine and Hilfenhaus mounted a brief resistance, but Hilfenhaus’ run-out, after an ill-judged decision to turn two runs into three, brought that to an end, and the innings headed the same way the next over when Paine became Mohammad Asif’s third victim of the day, as he finished with figures of 3-30.
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