Australia v Pakistan First Test Report Card, Day One

Featuring parenthetical dross and judo science

Parenthetical Dross
Grade: D

Pakistan are this summer’s West Test guests. And what lovely guests they are. They showed up over in Perth, apologising for being late (‘Nullarbor traffic was a nightmare!’), complimenting the hosts on what they’d done with their lovely Optus stadium (‘Can’t believe it’s up and running!’) and offering to help in any way they c…