Australia win by an innings and 48 runs;Australia v Pakistan, 2nd Test, Adelaide

Australia won the series 2-0

MELBOURNE: Australia on Monday pounded Pakistan to verify a triumph of an innings and 48 runs as turn lord Nathan Lyon trapped five wickets, including hazardous 50 years creators Shan Masood and Asad Shafiq.
At the supper break in Adelaide, Pakistan were 229 for eight - as yet expecting to score another 58 to make the hosts bat once more. left-sidebar


Pakistan continued day four on an unsafe 39 for three with Masood not out 14 and Shafiq on eight in the wake of being bowled out for 302 in their first innings and compelled to pursue on.

It pursued Australia's mammoth 589 for three proclaimed, worked around David Warner's remarkable 335 not out - the tenth most noteworthy Test score ever. full-width

Requiring 248 to make Australia bat again and stay away from a second progressive innings rout, they tried to arrive at the achievement. Mohammad Rizwan, in just his third Test, was not out 40. Masood made 68 and Shafiq 57.

While Lyon removed some life out of the pitch, it offered little for Australia's quick bowlers who were made to work. They will have the option to take the new pink ball quickly and with the lights going ahead, it should offer them progressively favorable conditions to complete the activity.

Masood, who models himself on Britain's Alastair Cook, played some superb strokes, including a six off Lyon, as he expected a position of authority after Babar Azam and commander Azhar Ali fell inexpensively on Sunday evening.

His 6th Test 50, in his seventeenth Test, landed with a limit off Lyon, his 6th four, preceding he chipped the spinner to mid-off where Mitchell Starc gathered a simple catch.right-sidebar

Shafiq, who has 12 Test hundreds to his name, demonstrated to be Masood's equivalent and raised his 25th 50 years with a solitary off Josh Hazlewood.

In any case, Lyon struck once more, with Shafiq getting a slender edge to a flighted ball that conveyed to Warner at slip, before he at that point evacuated Iftikhar Ahmed, got at short leg by Marnus Labuschagne for a fighting 27.

Shock first-innings century-producer Yasir Shah couldn't rehash the heroics and was Lyon's next unfortunate casualty, out lbw for 13 after a survey.

Shaheen Afridi turned into his fifth, got at mid-off by Hazlewood on the last ball before supper, with Australia on the cusp of causing another substantial misfortune on Pakistan after their innings and five runs rout in the first of the two-Test arrangement at Brisbane.

Pakistan have been crushed in 13 back to back Tests on Australian shores.