Australia vs Pakistan 2nd Test Predictions
We’ve looked at all the cricket bookies in Australia and identified the bets that will give you the best return next week. Here are three tips for Australia vs Pakistan cricket that we recommend:
2nd Test to Be a Draw @ 5.50 (9/2)
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The bookies believe this one is going to be an Australian win, and the first Test certainly indicated so. However, we say that Pakistan will fight back here and make the series competitive by battling out a draw.
Here’s why: across Pakistan’s last 13 Test innings heading into this series, they had scored over 300 runs on nine occasions. Three of these were 400+ scores, while two times, the Pakistani batsmen plundered well in excess of 500 runs.
Sure, they stumbled in the first Test, but this kind of run-scoring power doesn’t just go away overnight. Australia has it too, and the MCG always coughs up roads for batsmen to score on, so we say there’s a healthy chance of some big runs on both sides leading to a draw here.
David Warner to Score a Century First Innings @ 4.33 (10/3)
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Love him or hate him, there’s something iconic about David Warner and Boxing Day Tests. The veteran opener is retiring after this series, and he showed the world that he’s going out on top last Test by crushing a magnificent tonne. It would be so Warner-esque for the controversial figure to do it all again on Boxing Day, and what better time to do so than leading from the front in the first innings?
Saud Shakeel Man of the Match @ 41.00 (40/1)
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Feel like an enormous payout? Then THIS is the tip for you. If Pakistan are to put in a big shift and save this Test match, there’s a very good chance it will come on the back of another match-winning performance by Saud Shakeel.
Wind back the clock six months, and the young batman made a wonderful unbeaten double-century to defeat Sri Lanka with the highest odds. This time last year, he made a tonne and a pair of handy half-centuries to draw Tests against New Zealand. Only eight Tests into his career and the man already has just shy of 1000 runs – this is a player primed to go big and win Man of the Match.
