{"id":3644,"date":"2022-03-15T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=203485"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:23:38","slug":"pak-vs-aus-babar-azam-hits-his-sixth-test-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pak-vs-aus-babar-azam-hits-his-sixth-test-century\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs AUS: Babar Azam hits his sixth Test century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan captain Babar Azam secured a Test century in the Men-in-match Green\u2019s over Australia at the National Stadium Karachi after a two-year layoff.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the 78th over, the Pakistani captain completed his century by sweeping Mitchell Swepson at fine leg.<\/p>\n<p>This would be Babar\u2019s sixth Test century. The previous time the Pakistani captain had scored a century was against Bangladesh during their tour of Pakistan in February 2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The audience and his team applauded Babar for his \u201cincredible\u201d century as soon as he hit the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Babar is at the crease alongside opener Abdullah Shafique for Pakistan, who are chasing a 506-run score.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After Pakistan was relegated to 21 for 2, Babar and Shafique teamed for a thrilling 171-run combination to frustrate Australia\u2019s attack and give the hosts a ray of hope after they had been clueless for the most of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Babar and Shafique were fairly unbothered, blunting the bowling over the stretch of almost two hours, in a throwback to Rawalpindi, when Australia only took four wickets in 239 overs. The visitors were left to lament two early chances against Shafique, the first-Test centurion, who started cautiously before finding his stride after being partnered at the crease by a confident Babar.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan are 192-2 at the conclusion of day 4 and need 314 runs to win with 8 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is touring Pakistan for the first time since 1998, after previously refusing to do so due to security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babar scored his sixth Test century, his first one in 2 years, with a sweep over fine leg moments before stumps, after playing a single hand in Pakistan\u2019s first innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[298,1005],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-babar-azam","tag-test-series"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}