Khawaja leads strong fightback but stumbles just short of century

It was a day that saw Australia’s batters cash in on a highway of a pitch to keep themselves in the first match of the series. The Australian and Pakistani players left the field at 3.53pm local time with 21 overs still to bowl because of poor light, with the visitors cruising at 2-271 and reducing their first-innings deficit to 205 runs. The covers came on shortly after due to rain on yet another shortened day, taking the number of overs lost in this Test to 33. Rawalpindi: Usman Khawaja was a perfectly executed reverse sweep away from fulfilling a boyhood dream of scoring a Test hundred in P…

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