ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Australia captain Pat Cummins denied the confidence of his bowling assault had taken a success after their wrestle within the drawn opening take a look at in opposition to Pakistan in Rawalpindi.
A dominant Pakistan adopted their first innings whole of 476-4 declared with 252 for no loss within the second even because the run-feast resulted in a draw on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
Their opener Imam-ul-Haq went into the match with out a take a look at century in his earlier 11 matches and ended up smashing two of them to stroll away with the man-of-the-match award.
Opening companion Abdullah Shafique additionally registered his maiden take a look at century, whereas senior staff mate Azhar Ali’s 185 within the first innings was the highest rating within the bat-dominated contest.
“It’s not a success in any respect,” Cummins informed reporters when requested is his bowlers felt deflated after toiling for little success.
“Our three fast bowlers and (spinner) Nathan (Lyon) are all fairly skilled. They’ve performed numerous cricket on actually good wickets, flat wickets, bouncing wickets, spinning wickets.
“When we came to visit right here, we knew we will expertise international situations.
“Whoever’s known as on for the subsequent take a look at might be able to go.”
Frontline quicks Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood went with out wickets, whereas Cummins employed as many as 9 bowlers in Pakistan’s second innings to defend his quick bowlers.
Uncapped leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson is anticipated to hitch Lyon in Australia’s two-man spin assault within the second take a look at in Karachi from Saturday.
“We’ll spend the subsequent couple of days reviewing it, taking a look at completely different plans forward of Karachi,” Cummins stated ruling out his principal bowlers have been a drained lot.
“We all bowled round about 25 or 30 overs every, which compared to numerous Australian take a look at matches is definitely a reasonably mild workload.
“We didn’t get an enormous quantity of reverse swing on this take a look at however that may come into afterward.
“I used to be actually pleased with how everybody went and everybody’s come by unscathed.”
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; enhancing by Pritha Sarkar)
