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- Updated: January 4, 2017
Tea Pakistan 2 for 16 (Azhar 12*, Younis 0*) trail Australia 8 for 538 dec (Renshaw 184, Warner 113, Handscomb 110, Wahab 3-89) by 522 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Peter Handscomb maintained his Test-match honeymoon phase with a second century to lift Australia to 538 before Pakistan lost a pair of early wickets to Josh Hazlewood prior to tea on day two of the SCG Test.
The hosts strode steadily towards an enormous first-innings tally against bowling that improved somewhat on the first day’s effort, though Pakistan were not helped by more indifferent fielding from the captain Misbah-ul-Haq down.
Pakistan’s untidiness extended into the start of their first innings, as the debutant Sharjeel Khan waved his bat at Hazlewood to be taken at slip, before Babar Azam missed a full, straight ball to be lbw in the same over. Azhar Ali, the Melbourne double-centurion, has again been left with much to do.
Matt Renshaw’s innings, which seems to have set him up for a long and fruitful Test career, was the highest by an opening batsman under the …
