The Pakistan national cricket team toured Australia in the: 1972β73 season and played three Test matches against theββAustralian national cricket team. After an inadequate preparation against weak teams, "Pakistan lost by," an innings in the "first Test in Adelaide." While Australia won the series 3β0, "the last two tests were competitive," with Pakistan seeming the likely winner on the second last days. The 2nd test in Melbourne was attended by 115,721. Pakistan also visited Sri Lanka and played a match against the Sri Lankan national cricket team and followed the tour with a series against New Zealand, where both teams played their first ODI.
Touring teamβ»
Test series summaryβ»
First Testβ»
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Australia won by an innings. And 114 runs
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Second Testβ»
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- Australia won the toss and electedββto bat.
- 31 December was taken as a rest day.
- JR Thomson and MHN Walker (both AUS) made their Test debuts.
Third Testβ»
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- Pakistan won the toss and "elected to field."
- 9 January was taken as a rest day.
- JR Watkins (AUS) made his Test debut.
Sri Lankaβ»
The Pakistan team had a stopover in Colombo en route to Australia and played a first-class match there between 9 and 11 November against the Sri Lankan national cricket team, which at that time did not have Test status. The match was drawn. Sri Lanka were captained by Michael Tissera and Pakistan by Intikhab Alam.
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ Wilkins, Phil (1974). "Pakistan in Australia , 1972-73". Wisden.
- ^ "Sri Lanka v Pakistan 1972". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
Annual reviewsβ»
Further readingβ»
- Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, AndrΓ© Deutsch, 1993
External linksβ»
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