Australia vs Pakistan 1st Test

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Teams: (click on the players to see their profile)
Australia Squad:  RT Ponting*, MJ Clarke, DE Bollinger, PR George, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, MG Johnson, SM Katich, UT Khawaja, MJ North, SNJ O'Keefe, TD Paine†, SPD Smith, SR Watson

Pakistan Squad:   Shahid Afridi*, Azhar Ali, Danish Kaneria, Imran Farhat, Kamran Akmal†, Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Asif, Saeed Ajmal, Salman Butt, Shoaib Malik, Tanvir Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Umar Amin, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Hameed, Zulqarnain Haider†

Pakistan take on Australia at Lord's - the first neutral Test match at the home of cricket in over 95 years - with Pakistan riding high on confidence by winning the recently concluded T20 series, after ending a streak of 12 consecutive losses in all formats to their tormentors. With the English crowd firmly behind the Pakistanis, they came out and executed their plans to perfection in the T20Is, which helped them exorcise some of the ghosts of the Aussies that had appeared in their minds. But Test cricket will provide a far sterner test as the lack of experience and class could tell on Pakistan.

In the end analysis it could come down to Australia's batting versus Pakistan's bowling that could decide the fate of this Test series. The famous Lord's slope will be a factor as well which will help the seamers to get it to behave awkwardly if they use it to their advantage. There are a lot of newcomers who would be making their debuts at this famous venue and that is enough motivation for them to perform so that they can have their names inscribed on the hallowed 'Honours Board'.

This match is webcasted live for free at iSports.