Aussie Summer of Cricket

[NTA]

I was just about to say Pakistan was doing well and then a caught & bowled from Captain Cummins

[Duluth]

[KiwiMurph]

Pakistan have played well today.

Cummins is just too good.

[booboo]

Cummins makes it 3 down, hitting top of Babar's off stick.

[NTA]

@booboo was a great delivery. Not often you see that happen to Azam

[NTA]

Hazlewood takes Shakeel with an absolute jaffa after Lyons plucked another one

[KiwiMurph]

It's very lightly drizzled in Melb over night/this morning and yet we have a 45 minute delay to the start time

Cricket hates itself

[NTA]

Overhead conditions could make it interesting.

[KiwiMurph]

A timely ball change for Australia.

[NTA]

Two early wickets. Only 60 runs ahead. Pakistan will fancy themselves here

[KiwiMurph]

Now play is delayed because the 3rd umpire is stuck in a lift.....

[NTA]

Lol what's your excuse Dave?

[NTA]

Bullshit from head.

Pakistan tails up

[sparky]

Australia 17/4. 71 runs ahead. So under a bit of pressure. It will be interesting to see if they can dig themselves out of trouble here.

[NTA]

Shaheen and Hamza bowling to their potential

[sparky]

Australian counter-attack under way. 4s on consecutive balls.

[NTA]

If Pakistan's catching was better, we'd be in deep shit

[MN5]

I’m possibly jinxing him but I’ll point out that Steve Smith is currently second on the list of test averages for all batsmen who’ve scored over 7000 runs at test level. Smith 9467 at 58.43 while Walter Hammond got 7249 at 58.45.

Smith is so damn good, the chances of him failing in Melbourne were ridiculously low.

[NTA]

Marsh gets a sitter dropped early

And falls to a brilliant catch on 96

[NTA]