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BRISBANE: Australia held onto the bit of leeway on the opening day of the primary Test when they bowled Pakistan out for 240 just before stumps at the Gabba in Brisbane on Thursday.
After the guests opposed adamantly in the primary session, arriving at 57 for no wicket at lunch, pace trio Mitchell Starc (4-52), Josh Hazlewood (2-46) and Pat Cummins (3-60) tore through the Pakistan batting request to place the hosts in control at the end of play.
Australia held onto the activity after lunch when they took five wickets for only 19 runs, diminishing Pakistan from 75 for none to 94 for five.
The pacemen then struck again late in the day, with 16-year-old debutant Naseem Shah simply crushing out Starc's cap stunt ball.
"It was a serious greeting to Test cricket wasn't it?" Hazlewood said.
Hazlewood said the quick bowlers had appreciated the additional skip at the Gabba.
"The manner in which we battled back in the subsequent session was great," he said.
"We presumably bowled excessively short in the main session, yet we showed signs of improvement as the day went on. It was a really decent rebound I thought."
Pakistan were safeguarded from complete fiasco by Asad Shafiq who played a solitary hand, scoring 76 well-made runs.
Shafiq went to the wrinkle with his side 75 for two, at that point saw Haris Sohail (1) and Baba Azam (1) succumb to the expansion of just two runs.
Be that as it may, great organizations of 49 among Shafiq and Mohammed Rizwan, who made 37, and afterward 84 with Yasir Shah (26) empowered the guests to accomplish a good score.
"I realized that on the off chance that we could assemble a decent association it could support the group," Shafiq said.
"We didn't arrive at the all out we needed yet we got a decent aggregate and with the bowling unit we have, we will set up a generally excellent battle."
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Rizwan, who was counter-assaulting boldly, fell dubiously with Cummins seeming to have quite recently violated the imprint, just for television umpire Michael Gough to assume the best about to the bowler.
Yasir batted boldly yet when the Australians took the second new ball, Pakistan's opposition was everything except over.
The guests had disappointed the Australian pace assault in the main session, going into lunch at 57-0 with openers Azhar Ali and Shan Masood unbeaten on 28 and 21 separately.
The pair started to open up after the break with some shining assaulting shots, however Hazlewood and Cummins finally found their length and started to turn the screws.
The weight started to tell and with the score on 75 Masood waved at a Cummins conveyance outside off stump and edged to Steve Smith at second slip.
Azhar went the following ball when he edged Hazlewood to Joe Consumes from the start slip, before Sohail and Azam both tumbled to poor shots.
When Nathan Lyon had Iftikhar Ahmed gotten at bat-cushion for seven, Pakistan were reeling at 94 for five preceding Shafiq and Rizwan steadied the ship in the half-hour before tea.
Pakistan prior won the hurl and decided to bat on a sweltering and moist morning in Brisbane.
Azhar and Masood started warily against the Australian pace couple of Starc and Hazlewood, who bowled rapidly without truly alarming the Pakistan openers.
The guests slithered to 33 at the principal drinks break and took just about two hours to arrive at 50, raising the 50 years opening stand with a Masood limit through square leg in the penultimate over before lunch.
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