First India then Australia: neither side was able to take control on day two of the second Test in muggy Brisbane. The visitors’ loss of six for 87 at the steady hands of Josh Hazlewood gave the hosts a better sight of the batting crease than they could have expected after day one, but a
Pakistan lost three wickets for five runs after lunch but recovered to bat out a draw to retain their 1-0 lead over New Zealand going into the final Test in Sharjah. Pakistan went from 70 for 1 to 75 for 4 before Asad Shafiq, in partnerships with Younis Khan and Sarfraz Ahmed, dug in to
Shakib Al Hasan became the third player in Test history to hit a century and claim 10 wickets in a match as Bangladesh rolled Zimbabwe over on the final day to take the series 2-0 in Khulna. Hamilton Masakadza was the only source of resistance with his second fifty-plus score of the Test, but he
Daniel Brettig (ESPNcricinfo) Twenty years of Pakistan defeats at Australian hands were erased in little more than 20 minutes. The last five wickets belonging to Michael Clarke’s befuddled team tumbled for eight runs in 46 balls after lunch, rather summing up the gulf between the two sides in a series Australia had expected to win.
Sulieman Benn snuffed out Bangladesh’s resistance with his sixth five-for to ensure West Indies won their 500th Test emphatically and complete a 2-0 series whitewash on September 16, 2014 at Gros Islet stadium inSt. Lucia. The visitors conceded their last eight wickets for 34 runs, emblematic of their fortunes in 2014, to reduce fighting half-centuries