Pakistan hadn’t yet lost the Boxing Day Test against Australia in Melbourne, and people were already getting stuck into them about their dismal second innings performance.
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The internet can be a savage place at the best of times, but when you’re on the brink of an embarrassing batting collapse, things tend to go up a gear.
It looked as though Pakistan couldn’t lose from where they were, but they proved everyone wrong on Friday afternoon.
Cue the savagery:
142,188 have come to see this drawn Test that Pakistan refuse to draw.
— Jarrod Kimber (@ajarrodkimber) December 30, 2016
So Pakistan proved once again that on any given day expect anything. #PakvAus
— wasim (@waskpk) December 30, 2016
Australia* is going to draw** this, I think***.
— Omer (@omerwahaj) December 30, 2016
*By Australia I mean Pakistan
**By draw I mean lose
***By think I mean know
Pakistan cricket team:
— Tanuj Lakhina (@tanujlakhina) December 30, 2016
Almost win a lost Test
Also Pakistan cricket team:
Verge of losing a drawn Test
Only Pakistan 🇵🇰 can make match alive out of nothing 🙄😒 #PakvAus
— Y A S I R (@Yasirhere) December 30, 2016
With such a vast history of epic batting collapses Pakistan have had, Smith should keep going till time runs out.#AUSvPAK #BoxingDayTest
— Riteek Arora (@riteek) December 30, 2016
Pakistan do the predictable. Play unpredictably.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) December 30, 2016
Without Pakistan, international cricket would be quite boring.
— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) December 30, 2016
@ESPNcricinfo well that is Pakistan! Consistently inconsistent!
— The Tassie Snipe (@thetassiesnipe) December 30, 2016
pakistan wtf
— Shivam Manghnani (@shivamLM) December 30, 2016
It’s just not cricket. It’s Twitter.