AUS vs PAK: Mir Hamza castles Travis Head on golden duck, Pakistan legend calls it ‘genius’ stuff | WATCH

AUS vs PAK: Pakistan are giving Australia a terrific struggle within the Boxing Day Test as their pacers have wreaked havoc in opposition to the much-celebrated batting line-up in Melbourne. After wrapping Shan Masood’s aspect for 264, the Aussies took a 54-run lead however the Pakistan pace-battery helped their workforce storm again into the match. 

Well led by Shaheen Afridi and Mir Hamza, the guests put the hosts in serious trouble with fast wickets within the second innings. Hamza accounted for 2 of the primary 4 wickets, which included a ‘genius’ stuff. Playing solely his 4th Test, the 31-year-old Hamza cleaned the World Cup star Travis Head with a sensational supply. 

The left-arm pacer outfoxed Head with a supply that got here inside massively to the Southpaw, sending the followers loopy. The Aussies have been at 16/2 within the second session of the day when Hamza first removed David Warner with a back-of-a-length ball after which produced a jaffa on the very subsequent one. Coming from over the wicket, Hamza used each swing and seam completely. He swung the ball inside which pitched fuller simply exterior off after which it seamed in too. Head appeared naive on his first supply as he was overwhelmed all ended up with the ball hitting the center stumps. Hamza additionally had the possibility to seize a hat trick however missed it as Mitchell Marsh didn’t fall for his innocent outside-of-off-stump supply.

Commentators on air outlined the second as a genius stuff. Pakistan’s bowling legend Wasim Akram was additionally current within the commentary panel and he agreed that this was a genius piece of bowling. 

Watch Hamza’s magic supply:

Wasim Akram described that Head was anticipating an outswing however the ball swung again into him. “Travis Head was expecting the outswing but like you said it was a genius move by Mir Hamza. Look at the roll of the wrists and the ball swung back into him and middle-stump gone,” Akram mentioned on air

Hamza and Shaheen took the preliminary 4 wickets to place the hosts in large bother of their second reply. After Head’s wicket, Australia have been despatched 4 down for simply 16 and had a lead of 70. Shaheen and Hamza picked two wickets apiece. Shaheen jolted the WTC champions early with the wickets of Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne simply earlier than lunch earlier than the Hamza present. 

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