Pakistan vs Australia live: Day two of third Test at SCG

Sajid Khan is into the attack for his second over. He almost had Warner playing on in the opening over last night.

Clipped away off the pads yet again by Khawaja, and Warner gets one off his thigh as well.

Hamza'a still getting a lot of out-swing, but the line is way off.

And then down leg again. A little bit scattered right now.

Hamza finally uncorks the in-swinger and finds the front pad of Khawaja, but it's too far down leg. Great ball, but the line was just off.

He's batting so far out of his crease.

Another inside edge back into the thigh pad from Warner as Hassan angles in at him.

Hamza's over the wicket to Warner, who's keeping him out.

He goes for the ball angling in at the stumps, but he's off line as well, spraying it down leg.

Warner helps himself to a single, so Khawaja resumes his battle with Hamza, hunting that outside edge with the out-swinger.

And he's almost found it too, but Khawaja's bat is too straight.

And Warner gets another thick edge back into his pads.

Edged … for four! Warner gets a thick edge and the ball flies past second slip, through a vacant third slip region where a player was just taken from.

Lo and behold, the third slip is put back in place. Bit late, Shan.

The out-swing is still on point, and Khawaja shoulders arms.

Hamza angles in at the stumps, but still swinging out/down the line of the stumps, and Khawaja wears it on the thigh pad.

This is good stuff from Hamza, maintaining really good areas to Khawaja and threatening both edges.

Another maiden.

Very wide from Hassan going across Khawaja.

He straightens up, but too short and on the leg stump, allowing Khawaja to turn another single off his pads.

Hassan comes back around the wicket for Warner and spears another one down the leg side.

FOUR! David Warner goes through the covers with the first truly assertive shot of the day, walking and drilling Hassan as his back knee collapses a touch.

He's got the out-swinger rolling outside off. Khawaja is leaving anything not coming right at him and his stumps.

Hamza angles into the pads and Khawaja keeps it out.

And he gets his first runs of the innings and of the day with a little turn off his thigh behind square for a single.

Hamza's first ball to David Warner is too wide to interest the retiring Aussie.

Just the one over from Sajid Khan to open the bowling last night.

Half a shout for LBW for Warner. But it was high, outside off and had an enormous inside edge. Other than that it was good though.

Hassan's getting out-swing and Warner leaves a la Steve Smith. He's giving it the big ones this morning.

He tries the big in-swinger at the pads and gets it all wrong, going way down the leg side. Muhammad Rizwan does brilliantly to stop it running away for four byes.

A maiden to start for Hassan Ali, but not a great one.

Mir Hamza starting to Usman Khawaja, who's defending off his hip.

Beaten! Swinging away from Hamza, as he was in Melbourne and past the outside edge of a defensive Khawaja.

And he digs out a yorker to finish.

Tight opener from the left-armer.

The SCG crowd was forced to wait for a glimpse of David Warner at the crease, Pakistan's top order was blown away, but third-gamer Aamir Jamal came to the rescue.

Here's a quick look at how day one went down…

Yeah Mike,

There's an opportunity to stick up a middle finger to critics on a big stage, so naturally I'm guessing he'll go big.

I'm tipping 132. If he gets past 25, I think he's nailed on for a ton.

Australia opener Usman Khawaja is the winner of the Alan McGilvray medal for the second straight year.

He scored 1,210 Test runs in 2023 — the only cricketer with over 1,000 —at an average of 52.60.

In 24 innings, he passed 50 nine times, reaching three figures three times in three different countries — Australia, England and India.

After being recalled for the last Test of the 2021/22 Ashes, Khawaja has played 25 Tests, scoring 2,290 runs at an average over 58, with seven centuries.

On DAY ONE of the second Test in Cape Town, South Africa was bowled out for 55, then India was all out for 153, then the Proteas (well, the replacements) lost three wickets at the top of the order.

That is all after South Africa won the first game by an innings and 32 runs.

Good craic.

Pat Cummins and the bowling attack have been close enough to flawless in this series, but yesterday felt like a replay of some ugly scenes we've witnessed before.

Dean Bilton wrote all about it…

If we're talking resolutions, let that be Australia's — figure out a new tactic for bowling to tailenders, and let it more closely resemble the brilliance reserved for top-order superstars.

Credit should nonetheless go to Jamal, who batted with bravery and more class than you'd come to expect from a number nine for his 82.

His bowling has been generally fantastic all series, and the heart he has displayed with the bat will be enough for Pakistan to head home confident it has secured a key piece of its future.

There was a look of befuddlement on Cummins' face as he left the field of play, sensing the game might not have slipped away from him but the momentum certainly had. On the outside it felt avoidable, but only Cummins will know if it was the execution or the plan itself that let him down.

David Warner will walk back out onto the SCG turf for potentially his final, but more likely penultimate, Test dig this morning.

With a slow pitch and an inexperienced bowling attack, all the pieces are there for Warner to deliver one more piece of theatre on his home patch.

He's 6 not out after making it through one over, featuring a boundary, a 2 and almost getting bowled.

What can he produce today? Send us your predictions in the comments.