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Australia v Pakistan: second Test, day three – live!






































Preamble

Hello everybody and welcome to live OBO coverage of day three of the second Test between Australia and Pakistan from Adelaide Oval.

A quick public service announcement before we tuck in. Play will start half-an-hour early to continue making up time lost to rain on day one. Here’s today’s session times in AEDT: 2pm-4.30pm | 4.50pm-6.50pm | 7.30pm-9.30pm.

When play gets underway the only question that really needs answering is: how long will it take Australia to polish off victory? In home conditions they are simply a much better Test cricket side than Pakistan. The one-sided nature of their win in Brisbane is being replicated here in Adelaide and a series whitewash is all but assured after only six sessions in the Athens of the south.

Pakistan will resume on 96-6 with Australia’s trio of pacemen hungry to mop up the tail and steal some of the limelight hogged yesterday by David Warner. Standing in their way is one man, Babar Azam, the only tourist capable of competing with his hosts in any discipline. He is unbeaten on 43 and his wicket will be prized more than any other.

Otherwise today is sure to be one of reflection following Warner’s extravagant feats yesterday. It baffles me that his batting has caused such a furore over the rights and wrongs of respecting historical landmarks. I thought his job was to score runs and win cricket matches. Australians have a very particular way of getting their knickers in a twist about confected rights and wrongs to do with sporting behaviour (see Warner, D: sandpaper) and this is right up there with the most peculiar of them.

If you have any thoughts on Warner, Bradman, twisted knickers, or anything else cricket related, please drop me a line either on Twitter – @JPHowcroft– or by email – jonathan.howcroft.casual@theguardian.com.

Murs here, preempting Warner upsetting the Bradmanphiles by a decade or so.





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