Lahore, Ap. Recovering from poor fielding, Pakistan restricted Australia to 232 for five on the first day of the third. And final cricket Test on Monday and did not even allow Usman Khawaja to score a century.

Fast bowler Naseem Shah, who was included as the only change in the squad for the drawn Test in Karachi, took two wickets for 36 runs in the last session. Cameron Green 20 and Alex Carey were on eight when play was halted with two of the 90 overs remaining due to bad light. After this the day’s play was over. Usman Khawaja, who scored 160 and 44 not out in Karachi and 97 in the first Test. Was dismissed for 91 when Babar Azam took a brilliant one-handed catch at the slips. Usman Khawaja batted for nearly six hours and faced 219 balls. His innings was ended by spinner Sajid Khan.

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Smith and Usman Khawaja handled the Innings

At the same time, Naseem dismissed Steve Smith (59) leg before and Travis Head (26) was also sent to the pavilion. Smith hit six fours in his 169-ball innings. Head was given life on the score of seven when Sajid could not catch his return catch but he could not play a long innings. Earlier, Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat. But Afridi first dismissed David Warner (07) leg before in the third over. And then Marnus Labushane was caught by wicketkeeper Muhammad Rizwan and did not allow him to open the account. . After Australia lost two wickets for eight runs in the third over, Smith and Usman Khawaja took charge.