Karachi test
\nUsman Khawaja smashes 11th test hundred | Steve Smith makes 72 before falling to Hasan Ali
\nKARACHI
\nAustralia summed-up day 1 of the second test of historic series between Pakistan and Australia at 251-3, with the \u2018local boy\u2019 Usman Khawaja leading their attack and scoring a century ton at 127*.
\n\u201cWe (Himself and Steve Smith) had a pretty good partnership before that wicket, but we still have some batting to come. The wicket looks pretty nice and a good one to bat on. It started to reverse in the second session, and that made scoring pretty difficult. They bowled a negative line in the last session, but we didn\u2019t play any rash shots. My family is from Karachi, everyone is born in Karachi, except me. This is where the Khawajas are actually from. It\u2019s nice to get a hundred at this ground, I\u2019ll take it any day,\u201d Khawaja said at the end of day\u2019s play, whose whole family is Karachi-born.
\nSteve Smith, with whom Khawaja shared the stage for a longer period of time on day 1, fell to Hassan Ali after scoring brilliant 72 (214).
\nHassan Ali and Faheem Ashraf shared one wicket each for Pakistan, while Marnus Labuschagne getting run-out in quite cheeky fashion at a golden duck. This was the only second \u2018golden duck\u2019 for Marnus, with the first also against Pakistan, back in 2018.
\nAustralian captain Pat Cummins at the toss earlier in morning said pitch was looking \u2018good\u2019 to bat on. His Pakistani counterpart Babar Azam had hoped of Karachi pitch being assisting spin bowlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karachi test Usman Khawaja smashes 11th test hundred | Steve Smith makes 72 before falling to Hasan Ali KARACHI Australia summed-up day 1 of the second test of historic series between Pakistan and Australia at 251-3, with the \u2018local boy\u2019 Usman Khawaja leading their attack and scoring a century ton at 127*. \u201cWe (Himself and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4514,4899,2695],"class_list":{"0":"post-249151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-hasan-ali","9":"tag-karachi-test","10":"tag-usman-khawaja"},"yoast_head":"\n