Yasir Shah showed great resilience, says Shoaib Akhtar

Shah scored a brilliant century in the match, scoring 113 runs to help Pakistan end their first innings on a respectable total of 302 on day three.

Hyderabad: Veteran Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar praised his countrymate Yasir Shah who scored his maiden Test century against Australia in the second Test by saying that he showed great resilience.

Akhtar took to Twitter to write: "Great resilience shown by @Shah64Y. Scoring a century in Australia coming at number 8 showing the rest of the batsmen "Asay hota hai bhai". Another good knock by @babarazam258 as well. #AUSvPAK."

Yasir Shah

Shah scored a brilliant century in the match, scoring 113 runs to help Pakistan end their first innings on a respectable total of 302 on day three.

Apart from Shah's innings, it was Babar Azam's 97-run innings which gave Pakistan some momentum in the match.

Shoaib Akhtar

Australia, who had declared their first innings at 589/3, had a lead of enough runs and decided to enforce a follow on.

The day three was called off early due to rain and Pakistan will resume their second innings from 39/3 on day four on Monday.