Opener rides luck at times on way to 151 not outPartner Burns falls just short of ton with 97 at GabbaAustralia have found their answer at the top, with centurion David Warner and Joe Burns hitting the team’s highest opening stand in four years in their pummelling of Pakistan. Warner went to stumps at 151 not out and Joe Burns struck 97 at the Gabba as Australia finished Friday’s second day on 312-1, in reply to Pakistan’s 240.
Marnus Labuschagne also joined the run-fest, unbeaten on 55 at the close. Warner and Burns’s 222-run stand was the team’s biggest at the top since the same pair put on 237 against
New Zealand in 2015 at the same venue. In the time since, Australia have used no less than 13 opening combinations.