Australia vs Pakistan 1st Test Day 3: David Warner falls for a duck, Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja build lead

Following his 164 in the first innings, Warner lasted just five balls in the second dig before popping up an easy catch for Imam-ul-Haq at mid-wicket.

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It came after Nathan Lyon was left stranded on 499 career wickets as the hosts bowled Pakistan out for 271 in its first innings.

Lyon finished with 3/66, but could only watch as part-timer Travis Head claimed the final wicket of Shaheen Shah Afridi to leave the offspinner one wicket shy of a mark reached by just seven other bowlers in Test history.

After David Warner smashed 164 on the opening day of the summer, Day 2 was a dour affair as Pakistan dug in to bowl Australia out for 487, with debutant Aamir Jamal taking six wickets on debut.

Mitch Marsh was bowled for 90, falling short of a fourth Test century in front of his home crowd. Marsh said afterwards he has no desire to replace Warner as an opener.

Pakistan resumed on 2/132 but its stand was short-lived as Australia ripped through the middle order in the afternoon session, leaving the visitors all out for 271 and trailing by 216 runs.

After Warner and Marnus Labuschange (2) fell cheaply, Steve Smith (43 not out) and Usman Khawaja (34no) were unbeaten heading into day four, with Australia’s lead reaching 300.

Scroll down for all the updates throughout the day.

8.30pm – Smith and Khawaja dig in to stumps

It’s been a fairly uneventful session after the first 10 overs of shenanigans. Steve Smith arrived at the crease and held the fort with Usman Khawaja as the light started to fade. The pitch has started to produce a few tricks but on the whole, Pakistan’s bowling attack failed to come up with enough to pierce the middle order on day three.

The pair built a 78-run partnership and brought Australia’s lead over 300 on what has been another day in Australia’s favour.

6.45pm – Marnus roughed up before cheap dismissal

Marnus Labuschagne has copped a brutal delivery on his fingers after a ball from Khurram Shahzad took off from a crack in the pitch.

The team doctor came out and stalled play for a moment as they assessed the damage. Ian Smith in the commentary box said it probably wasn’t worth the No. 3 damaging himself further, but Isa Guha said there was zero chance Marnus was going anywhere.

He resumed a few minutes later but fell in the eighth over attempting to scoop Shahzad deep at square leg. He top edged the ball and sent it directly above wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed, who took the catch comfortably and sent Marnus to the sheds on just two.

6.25pm – Warner out for a duck!

David Warner was out for a duck in the second over of Australia’s second innings.

The Aussie opener, hot off a blistering 164 in the first innings, tried and failed to lift Khurram Shahzad over the leg side, popping up an easy catch for Imam-ul-Haq at mid-wicket.

Marnus Labuschagne has joined Usman Khawaja at the crease with the Aussies leading by 216.

5.55pm – Head closes out the innings

Nathan Lyon will have to wait for his 500th Test wicket.

Travis Head closed out the Pakistan innings, tempting a clumsy drive from No. 11 slogger Shaheen Shah Afridi, who top-edged it into the safe hands of Usman Khawaja at mid-off.

The visitors finished with 271 and trail the Aussies’ first innings score by 216.

5.35pm – Lyon bamboozles Aamer Jamal

Nathan Lyon has taken his 499th wicket with a beautiful delivery to leave Aamer Jamal stumped. The Pakistani tailender found himself off balance as the ball floated past his bat and into the hands of Alex Carey.

The umpires went upstairs and it took a while for cameras to deem Jamal’s foot to be out of the crease.

“This is tighter than a facelift,” Kerry O’Keeffe said from the Fox commentary box.

Lyon now has three for the innings, the most of the Australian bowlers.

5.06pm – Cummins forces an error

At seven down, Pakistan’s lower order knew it was time to get some runs going. But Pat Cummins was two steps ahead. A quick short ball enticed Faheem Ashraf into a pull shot. But he didn’t time it at all and the ball sailed towards a diving Usman Khawaja at square leg.

4.42pm – Hazlewood strikes, Cummins rips into the tail

Josh Hazlewood took his first wicket of the summer shortly after Australia took the new ball.

The tall right arm quick had Saud Shakeel in all sorts of trouble with an accurate short ball at his ribs. Shakeel edged it high behind the cordon into the hands of David Warner.

Ricky Ponting said Nathan Lyon deserves some credit for the wicket, pointing to a moment between the spinner and Hazlewood before the over began.

“Who said spin bowlers don’t understand fast bowling and how to get fast bowling wickets,” Ponting said.

“Have a look at Nathan Lyon. Just before the last dismissal, Lyon runs all the way from point to have a chat to his fast bowling mate.

“Look what he says, he actually starts to demonstrate what he should bowl. There he goes, get it up under the armpit, up high on the bat on the gloves.”

James Brayshaw added: “Nathan Lyon will be claiming it too, don’t worry about that.”

Pat Cummins joined the party in the next over and almost trapped Agha Salman lbw. The ball smacked him just below the knee-roll and the tailender thought he’d try his luck with DRS.

Hotspot showed he didn’t hit it, but ball tracking deemed it missing leg stump, granting him another life.

4.20pm – ‘Something’s not right’: Starc battling

Mitchell Starc has had a rough spell after sending the crowd wild with a searing yorker to dismiss Sarfaraz Ahmed. The left-arm quick started getting more erratic with his bowling line. Commentators noticed his run-up had been bugging him all day. On day two, Ricky Ponting suggested Starc was uncomfortable with the change between the end of the wicket and the softer grass, forcing him to begin his delivery stride metres from the popping crease.

“Something is really not night with Mitch Starc. Not at all comfortable,” Alison Mitchell said.

3pm – Pakistan lose three wickets, Australia on a warpath

Kerry O’Keeffe said it would take an incredible delivery to dismiss Babar Azam on day three – and Mitchell Marsh did just that.

The all-rounder was getting subtle movement off the seam and finally caught the Pakistani gun’s outside edge, offering a low catch to Alex Carey behind the stumps.

He departed for 21 off 54 balls and brought Saud Shakeel to the crease.

Nathan Lyon struck shortly after, taking his 498th wicket after Imam-ul-Haq tried upping the tempo and launching him into the stands. He completely missed his shot and was miles out of his crease by the time Carey whipped the bails off.

He scored 62 from 199 deliveries but could not convert his stoic knock into a big hundred to guide his team through the first innings.

Mitchell Starc did what he does best and sent Sarfaraz Ahmed packing for three shortly after, launching a full ball that ripped off stump out of the ground. The aggressive keeper-batsman, who is handy with the willow with four Test tons to his name, looked completely out of his depth as the missile ended his innings on just three runs.

The crunch of the stump echoed through the ground and sent the crowd into a fit. Australia now heads into the break in a dominant position 284 runs ahead with the Pakistan lower order at the crease.

Commentators predict Pat Cummins will opt against the follow-on to give himself and the bowlers a rest from the Perth heat as temperatures rise throughout the day.

1.23pm – Cummins strikes early

Wickets were hard to come by on Day 2 but it only took three balls for Pat Cummins to strike, clean bowling nightwatchman Khurram Shahzad and sending his bails flying.

The dismissal brings Pakistan gun Babar Azam to the crease.

1.10pm – Carey denies Bairstow conspiracy

Alex Carey says the Jonny Bairstow dismissal wasn’t playing on his mind when he decided not to go the whole hog and knock the bails off Abdullah Shafique when he wasn’t grounded in his crease.

“I had my hand on the stump then sort of made the decision not to take the bail as his foot come up,” Carey told SEN on Saturday.

“I guess when you make that decision it’s hard to take the bails from there. Split second stuff.

“My momentum was coming away from the stump at the time.”

Asked if there was anything that made him pull out of the stumping, Carey said: “Nah, nah. If there’s an opportunity for a run out or a stumping then you do that. I had my hand on the stump, missed the bail on that way back up.”

12.05pm – Poms sledge Carey after missed stumping

A bizarre moment came late on Day 2 when Alex Carey appeared to pull out of a stumping when Abdullah Shafique’s foot lifted up off the ground after he defended a ball from Nathan Lyon.

Marnus Labuschagne flicked the ball to Carey, who reached forward and touched the stumps, but not firmly enough to dislodge the bails.

The wicketkeeper could be heard over the stump mic saying “I hit the stumps”, but some viewers were convinced Carey didn’t commit to the stumping as he didn’t want a repeat of his controversial run-out of Jonny Bairstow during the Ashes.

Broadcaster David Lithgow posted: “Alex Carey absolutely spooked to take off the bails then.”

Others weren’t so sure, with AAP’s Scott Bailey tweeting: “There is no world in which Alex Carey had time to catch the ball, see a foot lift, hit the stumps, think of the Bairstow incident and decide not to take the bails off.

“It’s just natural instinct to move his gloves to stumps each ball without removing bails and causing delays.”

Now the English media have weighed in, with the UK Telegraph sharing a video of the missed stumping chance with the headline: “Watch: Alex Carey tries to repeat Jonny Bairstow stumping… and fails.”

The Telegraph’s Will Macpherson wrote: “Perhaps scarred by the fallout from this year’s Ashes, Carey did not complete the action but that did not stop Labuschagne throwing his arms up in celebration thinking the dismissal was being executed.”

It would have been another dismissal in the grey area of the Laws of cricket, given Shafique had completed his shot and the ball was virtually “dead”.

Former umpire Simon Taufel explained Shafique would have been out if Carey had knocked off the bails.

“You do not need to be attempting a run to be run out,” Taufel said on Channel 7.

“The law was changed about six years ago to provide some special protection to a batter to prevent them from being run out from accidental loss of contact once they had with the ground.

“That protection is only afforded when they’re running or diving back into their crease. That was not the case here.

“So if that foot was in the air when the bail is taken off by Alex Carey in that situation right there, then the batter is run out.”

Legendary Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist said it would have been “fair game”, but added: “Oh do we need to go into this area again with Alex Carey? Player not attempting a run, all that sort of stuff.”

Originally published as Australia vs Pakistan Day 3: David Warner out for a duck as hosts build big lead