Screamer from Paine to dismiss Ifkithar off Starc! 

Pak 5-89!

Now Rizwan caught by a regulation catch off Starc! 

Pak 6-89.

Paine catching another. 

he averages mid to high 30s overseas which is still pretty decent

Where are those knockers of Paine's keeping now. He still has it with the gloves does the old fella.

Starc the recipient of three very poor shots. If he is not mopping up cheap tail wickets he is getting gifts to lift his wicket tally. Meanwhile CA and the media are gushing all over him.

I wanna know where has the swinging pinkie gone.

30 is not pretty decent.. it is mediocre grazor. Warner has always been a home track bully. He was in white ball mode for most of his second 150. Congrats on his triple but to be honest the bowling was not up to Test standard. Their best bowler Shah poses little threat on our decks.. with slow turn and little bounce.

KW now we have a strong middle order.. Smithy and Labu we can expect to perform better overseas.. Marnus the Menace certainly looks a competent spin player.. his wristwork is almost subcontinetal.

He's something of an Aussie version of Sehwag. A match winner who can take the game away in the right conditions. The rest of the time you just have to put up with it.

Should have told him to go t/20 mode until the break and reassess then (or declare when he got out). Would have been great to see the reaction of a 401 from his many "fans" lol. 

Fancy Yasir Shah scoring a century, plus him and Abbas putting together a huge partnership do late in the Pakistani innings. 

Pakistan are now 8-280! 

Warner’s average overseas must have dropped close to 30 after The Ashes tour. 

Hostile, short pitched bowling from Cummins to dismiss Abbas and nearly getting Musa in the same over. 

Marnus just dropped his second easy catch of the day at bat pad off Lyon. Aussie fielding has been awful today with so many dropped catches. 

Musa just played a huge pull for 4 off a Cummins thunderbolt! 

I’m surprised Australia has enforced the follow on after struggling to take wickets today. 

The bowlers must be tired. 

You just lost to SA and India at home - tbh...

Shows you how benign this deck is. About the flattest pink test pitch I can recall seeing.

Looks to have more life now with twilite here. Hazlewood.. specially looking good. Is back to his suffocating best after looking somewhat out of  rhythm in the first innings.
Smart captaincy by Paine enforcing the follow on and giving our quicks use of the dusk conditions. Those Paine haters can crawl back under their rocks.

DC..think about it. This is a pink test which usually means there is something for the quicks after dusk. Tim made the correct choice as he now has our quicks belting down a new cherry in the twilight hours. His decision has now been vindicated with three cheap wickets all from the moving ball. Hazlewood back to his best tonite.

I’ll bet Paine was disappointed it rained, Baggers! 

Those ideal conditions and the rain has intervened. 

3-39 means they only have three specialist batters to score 250 odd runs to make Aus bat again. 

There are always haters out there! 

Got to agree that Paine is a very good keeper (especially to spin) and Captain. Good batting average for a keeper also. A shame about the injuries or he might have had the keeping job many years ago. Not very good with drs though.

mid to high 30s is pretty decent overseas these days. It would be one of our best players

we just drew in England during an era where overseas victories are very difficult. Seems a bit harsh?

Are they? Your info is outdated I fear. According to whom?

NZ last won in UAE, drew in SL, drew in Eng, Eng won in SL, India wins in SL, SA won in Aus, SA won in NZ, India won in Aus, SL won in UAE... SL drew in WI, I can keep going. Pak drew their last 2 series in England.

The team with noticeable problems away still is Australia. SL and Bangladesh (draw salvaged) were embarrassing results, and Pak and Ind always seem to grind you  in Asia for the past decade. And its been 2001 since you won in Eng. Your last series win away was possibly NZ in 2015/16 and nothing of note before then since SA 2013/14 as the Windies were rubbish in 2014/2015. But other teams are not having this problem. Eng, SA, NZ, and Ind are having less issues away. SL swept the Saffirs - home and away. I never saw that coming. 

Yeah, Australia's away difficulties are more pronounced now given India, NZ, Eng, SA, and SL success away of late. It is literally just Aus not finding a way to win away of late.

I still think the English are as much home town bullies as Australia, though. But their victory in SL was planned, calculated and executed. But their loss in WI was hilarious.

Their seam bowlers are too Dukes reliant. But their 3 spinner strategy with debutant wicket keeper Ben Foakes caught SL on the hop.

SA - Eng could very well be the series of the summer if NZ make like normal and fall apart in front of an Australian cricket player. NZC just wilts in front of the Australian cricket badge post Hadlee and Crowe.

I’m now wondering if fatigue will be a factor if Australia struggles to remove a few early wickets playing during daylight on a good pitch? 

Pakistan have serious scoreboard pressure though. 

Question mate. Why did Paine lose the Tassie gloves. If you dont know ask one of the TCA boys.. Jack perhaps he will know. I am having a debate on WP and need to make a point about Timmy.

Good point. They are after all in their second strait innings. I think Tim has handled his bowlers well. No long spells.. and time off while the slowies have their trundles. No doubt picking a fourth quick was needed.. but Tim was not to know that he'd be enforcing a follow on. 

Which time? The Ben Dunk time, or the Matt Wade time?

Its normally about a lack of runs with Paine where he lost his entire spot in the team I imagine seeing as he only had one FC century before this season and that was scored before Darren  Lehmann's last.

Weird anyone would let Wade keep ahead of Paine, but he was the more recent/current test keeper at the time I guess?

The rain delay has meant the Aussie bowlers are toiling in the day, not the evening. 

The pitch is good too. 

You beauty! 

Asad caught at leg slip with the extra bounce of Lyon. One more wicket and we are into the tail or keeper. 

GOAT also has plenty of energy left.