“I saw a lot of very nervous campers all of a sudden for the first time,” Pakistan assistant coach Steve Rixon said.
“I would have thought they would have turned up thinking, ‘We’re just going to win this, it’s only going to take two good balls and that’s it’. Well guess what? It wasn’t.”
Pakistan have lost their last 10 Tests in Australia and last won at the MCG in 1981 in the era of Imran Khan, Javed Miandad and Zaheer Abbas.
The Australians are confident crack pace pair Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood will back up to bowl at the showpiece event despite each sending down 56 overs in the Brisbane heat with just a week’s recuperation.
