Australia beat Pakistan by eight wickets to give a perfect send off to David Warner in his farewell Test
- Pakistan were simply ready to add 47 races to their short-term count.
- Warner offered gatekeeper of distinction by travelers in goodbye Test.
- Half hundreds of years by Labuschagne, Warner guide Australia to triumph.
SYDNEY: David Warner made crucial 57 runs in his farewell Test innings to chase 130 runs set by Pakistan for Australia’s victory that also ensured the hosts clean sweep the series 3-0 on Saturday.
Aussies beat the visitors by eight wickets in the last innings, drawing a curtain to the latter’s hopes to end a run of 16 successive losses in Australia since 1995.
Pakistan could add just 47 runs to their overnight tally at the cost of the last three wickets, to be dismissed for 115 an hour before lunch.
Playing his 112th match prior to resigning from the configuration, Warner imparted an embrace to opening accomplice and cherished companion Usman Khawaja at the limit rope and was offered a respectable watchman by the sightseers as he came to the wrinkle.
Khawaja withdrew lbw for a duck in the opening over, yet Warner played like a man on a mission and was before long carving the ball through the covers in brand name style for his initial four.
He raised his 37th Test 50 years with a solitary to square leg, and Australia went to lunch with the success everything except clinched on 91-1, 39 runs from their objective.
There were seven limits and a couple more possibilities in Warner’s 75-ball innings before spinner Sajid Khan caught him in front with Australia 11 runs from triumph with a day in excess.
A horde of more than 22,000 at his home Sydney Cricket Ground rose for a last applause as Warner left the field, his part in the 2018 ball-altering outrage that procured him a one-year restriction from worldwide cricket pardoned.
Warner’s innings gave him a profession count of 8,786 runs in 112 tests at a normal of 44.59 with 26 centuries since his presentation against New Zealand in 2011.
Marnus Labuschagne (62 not out) got the home side across the line with a solitary soon after Warner’s flight.
As in the second Test in Melbourne, Pakistan had just their own batting frailties to fault for passing up the opportunity to snap their long series of failures in Australia.
They were solid to set their hosts an undeniably seriously forcing objective on a weakening pitch before Josh Hazlewood (4-16) took three wickets in the penultimate over of the day on Friday.
On Saturday morning, Mohammad Rizwan scored 28 preceding he was gotten by Warner off the bowling of Nathan Lyon with Aamer Jamal holing out for 18 three balls later. Hasan Ali was bowled by Lyon for five to end the innings.
Seamer Jamal, who took a six-wicket pull on debut in the primary Test in Perth and one more in the principal innings in Sydney, was not welcomed on to bowl until after lunch in a perplexing choice by skipper Shan Masood.
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