SYDNEY: Australia were 86 for no loss in second innings against Pakistan at lunch on day 3 of second Test match here at SCG, Geo news reported.
Shane Watson and Phillip Hughes have put good show making unbeaten opening stand of 86 runs with Watson (51) shone with quick half century while Hughes playing on watchful 31 runs.
Australia's openers capitalised on a flattening pitch and a Pakistani reprieve to advance to 0 for 86 in their second innings, reducing to 120 the tourists' overall lead.
Shane Watson raised his 1000th Test run with a lofted pull stroke that Danish Kaneria, fielding at fine leg, dropped over the boundary rope on a morning that saw the hosts restore a degree of parity to proceedings.
Pakistan added just two runs to their overnight first-innings total as Doug Bollinger (4 for 72) snuffed out Kaneria with his fifth ball of the morning.
That took Pakistan's lead to 206 - their second-highest first-innings advantage over the Australians in 54 years of competition between the two countries - although with the SCG pitch nowhere near as threatening as the opening day, the Australians would not have entirely counted themselves out of the contest.
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