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- Updated: January 6, 2017
Australia 8 for 538 dec and 2 for 241 dec (Khawaja 79*, Smith 59, Warner 55) lead Pakistan 315 (Younis 175*, Azhar 71, Hazlewood 4-55) by 340 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
A firecracker of an innings by David Warner and handsome hands from Steven Smith and Usman Khawaja helped Australia set Pakistan a distant 465 to win the Sydney Test after Younis Khan’s excellent rearguard dissuaded the hosts from enforcing the follow-on.
The entirety of the first session was lost for the second time in as many days, but Smith’s team made up for lost time by rattling off 241 in a mere 32 overs. Warner was certainly not in the mood to linger, hammering 55 from 27 balls to put Pakistan immediately on the back foot. He took particular toll on Yasir Shah, taking one over for 22.
Smith and Khawaja followed up with plenty of telling blows of their own to stretch the lead, with the captain ultimately closing the innings with 16 overs left in the day and another 98 on day five. …
