Australia get victory on the house
By A.C. De Silva
FlashBack: If Javed Mianded had wondered whether Pakistan was playing
the Sheffield Shield champions instead of a full Australian XI, he
wasn't all that mistaken.
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Bruce Yardley called on to bowl in the second innings snapped up 6 for 84
in the Pakistan second innings to push home Australia’s win
over Pakistan. Pakistan were out for 62 in the first innings
and 256 in the second innings where Yardley grabbed the
wickets. |
As many as seven Western Australians were in the team at Perth and
all of them played a stellar role in routing Pakistan.
The rout was triggered by a Western Australian and completed by
another Western Australian. A Western Australian took a century off the
the tourist attack. And off the 17 catches that were so expertly held by
the Australians, 15 of them were by Western Australians figured in all
the 20 dismissals.
Western Australia was perhaps the strongest team outside Test cricket
them and the selectors had picked the players strictly on their form.
But Pakistan's incredible collapse on that Saturday, the second day
of the first test, was not because of any extraordinary piece of
bowling. On a beautiful batting wicket, the best in fact Perth had seen
in many years, Miandad's men sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind.
After the Pakistan fast bowlers had done such a superb job in bottling
up the home team for just 180 runs, the batsmen played themselves out of
the Test.
Pakistan batting slide
The slide began in the fifth ball of the first over bowled by Dennis
Lillie. Opener Mudassar Nazar put his bat out to drive a ball that was
easily 18 inches outside the off peg to give rod Marsh the first of his
seven catches in the match.
Then Terry Alderman, who shared 82 wickets with Lillee on the tour of
England took his first Test wicket in Australia with his very first
ball, trapping young Rizwan-uz-Zaman leg-before. The 19-year-old was
shuffling across hopefully to a ball that was pitched well up and didn't
know any thing about it. The Pakistanis surely missed the experience of
Sadiq Mohammed.
Rash Shots
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Keeper to keeper.. This was the catch of the match...
Australian wicket-keeper Marsh dived toward first slip
anticipating a snick from Bari, but it was an inner edge
which went the other way. Amazingly, Marsh changed direction
and still managed to grab the ball off Lillee for 1 in the
Pakistan first innings total of 62. Australia won the match
by 286 runs.
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Both Majid Khan and Miandad were out to balls they had no business to
play. Majid waved at a fast-one from Lillee and it seemed easily in the
safe hands of Marsh. Miandad went in a similar fashion.
Wasim Raja has been in this kind of situation many a time but has
never been fazed by it. He played the only way he knows and perished.
His first hook off Lillee should have been a warning to him, but he
didn't heed it.
The left-hander swing a short one from Lillee, but the terming was so
away that the ball ballooned over Marsh and raced to the boundary. The
second hook was off the meat of the bat, but it was brilliantly held by
Jeff Thomian on the fine leg fence. Thommo, in fact, did a great service
to Australian cricket even before he had bowled a ball in this Test. Two
weeks earlier he had put out Pakistan's best batsman Zaheer Abbas who
suffered a cracked nib in the match against Queensland and Grey Chappell
was so impressed with Thomino's performance that he quickly made up his
mind on him.
Thomino's comeback after two years in the wilderness was on the
cards, for he had troubled all the top Pakistanis with his pace and
left. And Len Pascol's severting to his old habits of bowling loose and
talking loose settled the matter in favour of Thomson. What Chappell was
booking for was a bowler who could intimidate the batsmen. In Thomson he
had a past master.
Lillee - flattering figures 5 for 18
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Australian opening batsman Bruce Laird’s intended glance is
snapped up by Pakistan wicketkeeper Wasim Bari for 85 in the
Australian second innings total of 424 for 8 declared in the
second innings. Laird was out in similar fashion in the
first innings too that time being caught by Bari off Imran
once again. |
Lillee had the flattering figures of 5 for 18 runs off 9 overs. He
took a wicket off every one of his last four overs. Alderman who had
three seven an innings performances, including a seven for 10 at Perth
that season already, finished with four wickets.
Pakistan at one stage was 7 down for 25, dying like so many moths in
a fire. But Sarfraz Nawaz clearly showed that the pitch was a beauty and
the bowlers were no demons as he waded into the attack. He was the only
one to reach double figures of 26 in a total of 62 in first innings. It
was the lowest total by Pakistan in Test cricket and also the lowest by
any touring team at Perth.
The Australian batting in its second outing was as purposeful as it
was woeful in the first innings. When Miandad won the toss and put the
Aussies in, it was evident that he didn't fancy exposing his batsman to
the early venom of Lillee, Thomson and Alderman. It was a defensive more
much in the fashion of Sunil Gavaskar the previous season at Sydney.
Miandad must have had some misgivings when greanswood and Bruce Laird
rattled up 45 runs in even time in the first innings.
The first wicket pair of Wood (49) and Laird (85) added 92 runs in
their opening partnership in the second innings and then there was the
fine century-knock of 106 runs by Kim Hughes and other valuable
contributions by Yallop (38), Allan Border (37), Rodney Marsh (47) put
the Australian second innings total to 424 runs for 8 wickets at which
score Greg Chappell - the Australian captain declared his second innings
closed.
That gave Chappell a victory target of 543 runs to play about.
The Pakistanis hand no Hanif Mohammed in their midst or even an Asif
Iqbal. After the debate two days earlier, they could only do better, not
worse. And that was not good enough.
Then came the row between Javed Miandad with Lillee as a result
Miandad was somewhat half stopped in his tracks and he was out for 79
and Wasim Raja made 48 and Pakistan were all out for 256 in their second
innings and that pulled the Aussied through to victory by 286 runs is
Pakistan were all out for 256 in their second innings.
SCOREBOARD
AUSTRALIA 1ST INNINGS
B.M. Laird c Bari b Imran Khan 27
G.M. Wood lbw b Bakht 33
G.S. Chaprell lbw b Imran Khan 22
K.J. Hughes b Sarbraz Nawaz 14
G.N. Yallop c and b Iqbal Qasim 20
A.R. Border c Bari b Sarbraz Nawaz 03
R.W. Marsh c Qasim b Sikkander Bakht 16
B. Yardley c Bari b Imran Khan 09
D.K. Lilee c Bari b Wasim Raja 16
J.R. Thomson b Imran Khan 02
T.M. Alderman not out 00
EXTRAS 18
TOTAL 180
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-45, 2-81, 3-89, 4-113, 5-119, 6-137
7-154, 8-165, 9-180
BOWLING: (Pakistan) Imran Khan 31.4-8-66-4
Sarbraz Nawaz 27-10-43-2
Sikkander Bakht 21-4-47-2
Iqbal Qassim 3-1-6-1
Wasim Raja 1-1-0-1
PAKISTAN 1ST INNINGS
Mudassar Nazar c Marsh b Lillee 00
Rizwan-uz-Zaman lbw b Alderman 00
Mansoor Akhtar c Marsh b Alderman 06
Javed Miandad c Hughes b Alderman 06
Majid Khan c Marsh b Lillee 03
Wasim Raja c Thomson b Lillee 04
Imran Khan c Yardlay b Lillee 04
Sarfraz Nawaz c Marsh b Alderman 26
Wasim Bari c Marsh b Lillee 01
Iqbal Qassim c Alderman b Thomson 05
Sikkander Bakht not out 03
EXTRAS 04
TOTAL 62
FALL OF WICKETS: 1.1, 2-1, 3-14, 4-17, 5-21, 6-25
7-25, 8-26, 9-58
BOWLING: (Australia) D.K. Lillee 9-3-18-5
T.M. Alderman 10.3-2-36-4
J.R. Thomson 2-1-4-1
AUSTRALIA 2ND INNINGS
B.M. Laird c Bari b Imran Khan 85
G.M. Wood b Qassim 49
G.S. Chappel b Imran Khan 06
K.J. Hughes c Majid Khan b Imran Khan 106
G.N. Yallop c Imran Khan b Bakht 38
A.R. Border c Mudasser Nazar b Bakht 37
R.W. Marsh c Akhtar b Raja 47
B. Yardley st Bari b Qassim 22
D.K. Lilee not out 04
J.R. Thomson not out 05
EXTRAS 25
TOTAL 424
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-92, 2-105, 3-192, 4-262, 5-327
6-380, 7-412, 8-416
BOWLING: (Pakistan) Imran Khan 39-12-90-3
Sarbraz Nawaz 27-5-88-0
Sikkander Bakht 23-3-79-2
Iqbal Qassim 26-4-81-2
Wasim Raja 20-3-58-1
Javed Miandad 1-0-2-0
Mudassar Nazar 2-1-1-0
PAKISTAN 2ND INNINGS
Mudassar Nazar lbw b Alderman 05
Rizwan-uz-Zaman c Marsh b Alderman 08
Mansoor Akhtar c Hughes b Thomson 36
Javed Miandad b Yardley 79
Majid Khan c Marsh b Yardley 00
Wasim Raja c Hughes b Yardley 48
Imran Khan c Alderman b Yardley 31
Sarfraz Nawaz c and b Yardley 09
Wasim Bari c Border b Yardley 20
Iqbal Qassim c Alderman b Lillee 04
Sikkander Bakht not out 00
EXTRAS 16
TOTAL 256
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-8, 2-27, 3-96, 4-99, 5-174, 6-198
7-229, 8-236, 9-254
BOWLING: (Australia) D.K. Lillee 20-3-78-1
T.M. Alderman 16-4-43-2
J.R. Thomson 12-4-35-1
B. Yardley 25.5-5-84-6 |
