Labuschagne takes a leaf out of Smith's book, does a 'light saber leave'

Australia's Marnus Labuschagne has been in sensational form ever since his inclusion in Test side from Ashes as a concussion substitute for Steve Smith. Labuschagne was adjudged Man of Match in first Test against Pakistan for his kck of 185 runs in first innings. Coming in for Steve Smith during third Test during Ashes, Labuschagne had impressed everyone with his performance with bat and went on to play remainder of series as well. Before Australia's pink-ball Test at Adelaide, Marnus Labuschagne was seen spending some time with Steve Smith in nets, taking inputs from number one ranked Test batsman on technique, stance, and game. It looks like Marnus Labuschagne is wasting time in putting those learnt skills to Test as he made some impressive leaves during second Test against Pakistan, a ditto replica of how Steve Smith leaves ball. Steve Smith's weird leaves caught eyes of fans during Ashes and Marnus Labuschagne w seems to have replicated it almost perfectly. 

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Labuschagne takes a leaf out of Smith's book

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Labuschagne & Warner put Australia in control

Opting to bat first, Australia lost ir opener Joe Burns to Shaheen Afridi in third over, following which Labuschagne and Warner helped Australia recover from loss. David Warner made his way to 45 runs while Labuschagne provided support to Warner from or end before rain halted play shortly after Tea was taken. Pakistan has t had any answers as to how to break building partnership between Warner and Labuschagne and will hope rain to work in ir favour. Australia, who have headed into pink-ball Test with an unchanged squad, will look to extend its dominance at Adelaide with pink-ball. 

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Australia unchanged

Bancroft's departure to play for Western Australia in Perth means re will be immediate batting substitute in case of a concussion. Paine joked that "we'll just get someone out crowd", before adding: "'Bangers' is a couple of hours away on a plane so if anything does happen, we will be able to get him back pretty quickly."  decision comes just days after Bangladesh were forced to use two concussion substitutes in one day, with Liton Das and Nayeem Hasan both forced out of ir day-night Test against India in Kolkata. task facing Pakistan is omius with Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon all in world's top five wicket-takers in day-night Tests, while Pat Cummins is world's top-ranked bowler. Australia have won all five pink-ball Tests y have played since concept was launched four years ago, with Paine warning his pace attack was relishing chance to bowl under lights on a home wicket.

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