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Pakistan players and staff with Australian captain Pat Cummins (File Photo: Twitter)
Pakistan and Australia are set to take on each other in the second Boxing Day Test of the three-match Test series. Both teams will the second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, starting on December 26. Meanwhile, the Pakistan camp attracted the eyeballs for their gesture for the Australian cricket team on the day of Christmas.
The Pakistan players and support staff distributed the gifts to the Australian cricket team to spread the joy and celebrations of Christmas ahead of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.
The video of this moment involving Pakistan and Australia players is also making rounds on social media as soon as the Pakistan Cricket Board went on to share it from their official X (formerly Twitter) handle.
Here’s the video of the Pakistan team giving gifts to Australia:
Warm wishes and heartfelt gifts for the Australian players and their families at the MCG indoor nets 🎁✨ pic.twitter.com/u43mJEpBTR
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) December 25, 2023
Speaking of cricket, Australia is currently ahead in the three-match series by a margin of 1-0 with a huge 360-run win in the first Test of the three-match series. Revisiting the first Test, the hosts won the toss and decided to bat first; star opener David Warner smashed a brilliant century to help his side post a total of 487 runs in the first innings.
In reply, Pakistan got bundled out at the score of 271 runs and the Aussies took a massive lead of 216 runs at the end of the first innings. Later in the second innings, Australia declared their innings at the score of 233 runs for the loss of 5 wickets to post a mammoth target of 450 runs for Pakistan in the fourth innings of the match.
While chasing the target, the batting attack of the visitors completely surrendered against the bowling attack of the Aussies; Pat Cummins and co bundled out Pakistan just at the score of 89 runs and won the match by a huge margin of 360 runs to start the home summer on a winning note.