Pakistan played a total of 64 matches from 1956 to 2018. Australia won 31 of them and Pakistan got 15 victories and 18 matches have been tied. Pakistan cricket team lost their last 12 matches against Aussies in Australia. Recently in the shortest format of cricket Pakistan lost its last five matches, three against Sri Lanka in Pakistan and two against Australia. In T20I format Pakistan got the first position in t20I rankings.
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane is the strongest venue for the home team. Because the top eight highest totals of the grounds are scored by the home team. Ninth highest total scored New Zealand, 10th highest score again Australia. Eleventh highest score England but after that from 12 to 21 highest totals are scored by the home team.
Pakistan’s best score on this ground is 450 scored in 2016 against the home team and it was 4th innings. In that match, Australia won by just 39 runs. If Pakistan would have won that match it would have the highest successful 4th innings highest runs chase ever. The results show that Pakistan’s test cricket performance is very bad in Australia. But also the Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane records show that Pakistan can bat in this ground.
Watch Aus v Pak Cricket Highlights Videos today – 1st Test, ICC World Test Championship from Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane (Australia) Thursday, 21-11-2019.
Pakistan won the toss and will bat first.
Pakistan team: 1 Shan Masood, 2 Azhar Ali (capt), 3 Haris Sohail, 4 Babar Azam, 5 Asad Shafiq, 6 Iftikhar Ahmed, 7 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 8 Yasir Shah, 9 Shaheen Afridi, 10 Naseem Shah, 11 Imran Khan.
Australia team: 1 David Warner, 2 Joe Burns, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Matthew Wade, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood.
Match Timings: 00:00 GMT | 10:00 Local | 05:00 PKT
Umpires – Richard Illingworth, Richard Kettleborough
TV Umpires – Michael Gough
Match Referee – Jeff Crowe
Reserve Umpire – Sam Nogajski
Match number – Test no. 2368
