Australia v. Pakistan - 2nd Test. Leeds.

Starts at 7.30 pm AEST. (09:30 GMT)

Australia: 1 Shane Watson, 2 Simon Katich, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Clarke, 5 Michael Hussey, 6 Marcus North, 7 Tim Paine (wk), 8 Steven Smith, 9 Mitchell Johnson, 10 Ben Hilfenhaus, 11 Doug Bollinger.

Pakistan: 1 Imran Farhat, 2 Salman Butt (capt), 3 Umar Amin, 4 Azhar Ali, 5 Umar Akmal, 6 Shoaib Malik, 7 Kamran Akmal (wk), 8 Mohammad Aamer, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Danish Kaneria/Saeed Ajmal, 11 Mohammad Asif.

Pitch and conditions

Overcast conditions helped the swing bowlers at Lord's and that could be the case again at Headingley. There is some rain forecast for the second and third days.

Stats and trivia

* Australia has beaten Pakistan in 13 consecutive Tests, the greatest winning run by a country over another in Test history.

* The last Test in which Katich failed to post a half-century was at Headingley last year. His only other Test at this venue was his debut, when he made 15 and 0 not out

* Ricky Ponting has an incredible record at Headingley, where he averages 105.25 in his three matches. It was the venue of his first Test century way back in July 1997

* Salman Butt will be the third man to captain Pakistan in a Test this calendar year, quite an achievement considering they have only played three Tests

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Punterwon the toss and elected to bat.

Australia's XI: SR Watson, SM Katich, RT Ponting*, MJ Clarke, MEK Hussey, MJ North, TD Paine†, SPD Smith, MG Johnson, BW Hilfenhaus, DE Bollinger

Pakistan's XI: Imran Farhat, Salman Butt*, Azhar Ali, Umar Akmal, Umar Amin, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal†, Mohammad Aamer, Umar Gul, Danish Kaneria, Mohammad Asif

0/10 after 3 overs.

Kat 7*
Watto 1*

Both openers gone.

2/23.

Aamer and Asif have a wicket apiece.

Clarke bowled, neck and crop by Gul.

3/27.

Punter out for 6.

Asif has 2/14.

4/29.

5/50. Hus out for 5.

Gul has 2/4.

5/50. Huss out for 5.

Gul has 2/4.

North out to Amin for 16.

6/73.

Aamer on a hatty.

First ball after lunch, clean bowled Smith. Cleaned up Johnson with the next.

8/73.

Hilf managed to NOT get an edge on a ripper from Aamer then played out the over.

Well done Hilfy (just). Incredible bowling.

Hilf run out for 3. 9/86.

Paine out for 17. Asif 3/30, Aamer 3/20.

All out 88.

0/52. Butt 30 n.o. Farhat 16 n.o.

Hilfy bowls Butt for 45.

1/80. Farhat 26*.

Pak takes the lead.

1/91.

Farhat 29*
Ali 8*

Well, Ricky did the right thing but the idea was to lose 2 maybe 3 in the first session and then settle in to make runs - like the Pakis are doing.

Farhat out to Watto for 43. 2/135.

3/148 at stumps. Watto 2/12.

MJ gets the edge of Umar Akmal's bat. Paine gobbles it.

4/171.

Hilf bowls short to Amin who ducks but leaves the periscope up. Loops up to square leg.

5/195.

Watto strikes twice in 2 balls. 7/222.

Another to Watto. 6/23. 9/237.