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Watch Abdullah Shafique's 160*

[TheCricketMen @thecricketmen]

Nice to see cricket’s “big 3” having a great day. Australia having a national crisis over sandpaper-gate (again), England struggling in one day cricket (again), and then India decide to get skittled for 89. Funny. Think it’s time we put NZ and South Africa in charge

[Werner @Werries_]

Still one of my favourite starts to a Test match

The mighty Hash with the mighty catch 😎

Those sunglasses were class 😂

[Andrew @shortflyslip]

@lenphil29 I mean Will Young is a population of one and he scored 120 on his own.

[junaiz @dhillow_]

Draw! We're so back!

[Hassan Ali @hassan512ali]

@SeedaBalla93 Sir he is absolutely not out of form. It is something else.
Even in one dayers you can clearly see the fluency in his batting.
In my opinion,it's loss of concentration.
Recently he has tried so much to enhance his T20i game,it's taking a toll on other formats.
Just like Saud.

[Rob Barron @CricketIsRobbed]

Pakistan should've declared, they'd have had a 0% chance of losing but something above a 0% chance of winning, which is what sport is about.

Absolute basics, always try and win if you can, particularly if there is no risk at all of losing.

[Hacker @cshacker_]

Propaganda

[Sheri. @CallMeSheri1_]

TEST MATCH TO FORGET FOR SAUD SHAKEEL.

- Scored 93 runs with the bat.

- Dropped Dhananjaya de Silva on 38, who went on to score 167.

- Dropped Kusal Mendis on 119 as well, but Saqib dismissed him just one ball later.

[Karthik Krishnaswamy @the_kk]

That "if by that" is doing so much work. No different to what Starc said but with way more conviction and righteous affect. (This is the first time I've used the noun form of affect in a sentence and I'm feeling very proud)

[Tareque Laskar @tarequelaskar]

india have been 33/3, 55/5, and 66/6 in this chase. what a day @CricCrazyNIKS

[Hacker @cshacker_]

His 100.

And also, PAK should declare with 20 overs to go because why not try to bowl ‘em out

[Israr Ahmed Hashmi @IamIsrarHashmi]

Why are they not shaking hands already to end this borefest?

Might do it once Saud reaches his 50.

#PAKvSL

[Tom Evans @TomEvansCricket]

Ah ha now we’re getting there… he’s wrong that they knew about sandpaper “going out on the field”. But the bit about them using it off the field, on the boundary edge before a session?

[Keir @Kingkeir]

The specificity in this answer is In fact not creditable

[Dave Tickner @tickerscricket]

Proud of England for taking a stand and pointedly refusing to play any cricket at all against the cheats.

[Sumanth Raman @sumanthraman]

#sandpapergate as #CricketAustralia wants us to see it.

Two top order batsmen, the mainstays of the Australian batting unit, conspired to tamper the ball using sandpaper. They decided that no one else must know. So they brought in the rookie in the team to help them. The youngster had his career on the line but just to not incur the displeasure of the two batters, one of whom was the Captain, he agreed to the plan.

They decided that the others, most certainly the bowlers for whom this was being done, the coach/manager, their other team mates, must not know about this.

The 4 bowlers who between them had played 168 Tests at that time had no idea that one side of the ball looked scruffier than usual. They had no idea why it was reversing more than normal.

None of the other team mates had any clue. Neither did the Coach or Manager nor anyone at @CricketAus .

So 3 batsmen tampered the ball for the 4 bowlers who had no clue about it.

Make this make sense.

[embattled poster @HonShitPostMP]

Did the full time cricket journos fly up to Sydney for this? Why is no one asking about sandpaper on the ball before the start of each session? He keeps hiding behind the wording of sandpaper "on the field", but that's not the claim or the revelation of this past week.

[Henry Moeran @henrymoeranBBC]

Extraordinary press conference from Pat Cummins.

This from Khawaja’s book is his view of who knew what:

[Hacker @cshacker_]

Hahahaha

[Adam Bell 🇳🇿🇮🇹 @AdamKerrBell]

If the bowlers weren't aware, are we to believe the batting group orchestrated this by themselves without the knowledge of the bowlers and Lehmann?

#sandpapergate

[Henry Moeran @henrymoeranBBC]

David Warner:

"I stick with Uzzie. It's the truth. The captain threw Uzzie under the bus."

"We've got to live with this daily."

"I feel it was a botched investigation. To get it over and done with. This won't rest."

"I'm not going to accept [things] until the truth is out"

[Andrew @shortflyslip]

When you dismiss 30514 career ODI runs in one over.

[Basia 🇿🇦 @tweetsbybase]

I feel like Pat Cummins leaned heavily on technicalities and semantics in that presser. Saying you didn't know sandpaper was going out onto the field is a very specific form of deniability. The question is bigger than that: what did you know?