2nd Test: Australia v Pakistan at Melbourne

boxing day Test

Yes Sir ! 'til early evening our time !

close to 16- 18 hours ahead of us ?  :-\

6.30pm est

Pakistan 142/4 (50.5 ov)

Rain save the day after 50 overs  :-[

Shabash!

Good news. Mark Nicholas has left hospital and will have a day's rest with a view to returning to the commentary box on day three

Pakistan 188/4 (71.2 ov)

310 - 6 after 101.2 overs

Azhar 139*  Amir 28*

Current partnership  42 runs, 6.3 overs, RR: 6.46 (Azhar 13, Amir 28)

So just 50.3 overs of play today after 50.5 yesterday

Stumps, day 2.

I like how this was going here. We will see when the next turn of runs takes it toll. This is coming from a previous non-fan of the whole thing.....

The first Pakistan batsman to score two double-hundreds in the same year: Azhar Ali