It wouldn’t be summer in Australia without a healthy dose of cricket and in all honesty I wasn’t particularly excited about the Australia vs Pakistan Home Series this year because...well, Pakistan have been really disappointing lately and are on a massive losing streak. They did lose this series 3-0 but it was a surprisingly entertaining series of cricket because there were are few patches where Pakistan were really competitive. Also the series was played in good spirit with a lot of respect shown by both sides.
Pakistan were very ordinary in the 1st Test, but in the 2nd Test they showed a lot of fight and only lost that game by 79 runs after their bowling unit really came together. In the 3rd Test you could argue they were in front after they knocked over the Australian lower order to take a 1st Innings lead on Day 3...but then they collapsed to be all out for 115 in their final Innings – allowing the Man of the Moment David Warner to knock off the winning runs in style for his Final Test Appearance.
David Warner has now retired from International Test Cricket and he did get the fairytale send-off at his home ground which I was personally quite pleased to see. A lot of people don’t like Warner because of various controversies in his past, but he has been a great contributor to Australian cricket for many years and I think he has more than redeemed himself. Congratulations to Australia and David Warner on a stellar Test Career.
