Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has defended the selection of three left-arm fast bowlers in the attack for the first Test at the Gabba, where Australia piled on 429 in the first innings. Brandon Williams Jersey . Mohammad Amair, Rahat Ali and Wahab Riaz made up the Pakistan pace attack for the Test, while the other fast bowlers in the touring squad, Imran Khan and Sohail Khan, were overlooked.Weve got an attack thats pretty balanced and weve got guys that are sort of specialists in all areas, Arthur said on ABC radio on Saturday morning. Like weve got Imran Khan sitting off who bowls well with wickets with a lot of grass on. I wouldnt be speaking out of line if I said I dont think he has got the pace to bowl on a good wicket here. But when it does a little bit hes fantastic.Sohail Khan comes in and swings it right arm, but Ive got a doubt about Sohails comebackability. If he has got to bowl, his first spells very good, his second spells okay, his third spell is tough and then you just dont get anything more. That puts a lot of pressure on our other units.I think we picked our three best bowlers. I think weve always got to pick your three best bowlers. Id be lying if I said we didnt have a look at the Australian side, seven left-handers in their XI, if we get it to swing its left-arm to left-arm.However, Pakistans bowling was far from their major problem on the first two days in Brisbane, where their batting order collapsed to be 8 for 67 before Sarfraz Ahmed led a minor recovery. Among those out cheaply were captain Misbah-ul-Haq, who was caught at slip for 4, and veteran Younis Khan, who edged behind first ball.Younis has endured a lean patch with his last six Test innings reading 0, 2, 1, 2, 11 and 0, although he scored 218 against England at The Oval this year and a century in his next Test against West Indies in Abu Dhabi. Misbah also made a hundred on the England Test tour and, Arthur said, despite the age of the elder statesmen in the batting order, he was confident they still had something to offer.Ive seen Misbah do it time and time again, Arthur said. And Younis Khan is just a complete professional, he really is. Id be lying if I said there wasnt a little doubt in my mind. But I had that doubt in England and I saw Younis come out and play exceptionally well, albeit against a different attack. So Im backing him in for the time being.Pakistans batsmen struggled to get through the difficult period under lights on the second day in Brisbane, where Australias fast men used the pink ball and the movement in the air to great effect. Asked on radio by former Australia opening batsman Chris Rogers whether there were day-night Test cricket led to problems due to the imbalance of conditions, Arthur agreed.I think there are. I would agree and you can appreciate, being an opening batsmen, its not an even playing field, Arthur said. You walk out at 1 oclock in glorious conditions like this, its a totally different ball game than opening up at 6 oclock or 6.30 or whenever they go out. So there are still issues around it, I think, definitely.I think its the future. If youre playing just one a summer, youve got to do it. Funny enough in Dubai it didnt do anything. I was surprised when that they had it at the Gabba, because the Gabba was the one where the conditions might be extreme. In Adelaide it seems to be good, although the ball does goes round. It is the future, I agree with you though I dont think the playing fields are even. Raheem Mostert Jersey . Pedro scored from a pass by Lionel Messi in the 33rd minute and added two more goals in the 47th and 72nd after Valdes saved his second penalty in four days following his stop in Wednesdays 4-0 over Ajax in the Champions League. Josh Bynes Jersey .J. -- New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz will miss the rest of the season after having surgery on his left knee. http://www.customravensjersey.com/custom...arge-1933d.html . After Gasquet beat fifth-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 7-5, 6-3, Tsonga followed up with a 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-2 win against sixth-seeded Edouard Roger-Vasselin in an all-French match. 3 Instances of Pakistan losing all 10 wickets for less than 100 runs after their first wicket having a century stand. In this match, they lost the 10 wickets for 99 runs after the openers added 131. The previous two instances were: 122 for 0 to 216 (94 runs) against England in Dhaka in 1961-62 and 135 for 0 to 208 (73 runs) in Christchurch in 1995-96. 12 Number of consecutive Test series without a win for New Zealand against Pakistan before this one. The last time they won a series against Pakistan was in 1984-85. Since then, they had lost seven and drawn five. Pakistans last series defeat was in Sri Lanka in 2014.2013 The last time Pakistan lost three consecutive Tests - it was in a three-match series in South Africa. Before losing the two Tests in this series, they had lost against West Indies in Sharjah. Prior to this, they had lost only three Tests out of 14 since the start of 2015.5 Instances of teams losing eight or more wickets in a session to lose a Test this year. All of them have come in the last four months. Australia have suffered two such collapses. 5 New Zealand bowlers to pick up 40 or more Test wickets in a calendar year. Neil Wagner is the latest to join the list with 41 wickets in 9 Tests this year.5 Ducks for Asad Shafiq in Tests this year - the joint-most by a player batting at No.6 or higher. Shafiq is the sixth such player to bag five ducks in a year and the last of which was Mark Butcher and Mike Atherton in 1998. Cheap Ravens Jerseys. No Pakistan player in top-six positions has got more than three ducks in a year. Shafiq had gone 49 consecutive innings without a duck before getting these five ducks in 13 innings.11.25 Average of Pakistans No. 4 to No. 6 batsmen in this series - the worst for them in any Test series. In 12 innings from those three positions, only 135 runs were scored with highest of 31. Shafiq scored 56, Misbah-ul-Haq 44, Sarfraz Ahmed 19 and Younis Khan 16.1 Number of longer opening partnerships for Pakistan in terms of balls than the 360 balls between Azhar and Aslam in the fourth innings (where balls information available). The highest was also by the same pair against West Indies last month when they added 215 runs in 407 balls in Dubai. They are also the most successful pair this year with 854 runs so far.2 Number of Pakistan players to get out in 90s twice in a year. First was Inzamam-ul-Haq in 1995 and Sami Aslam this year. Aslam has gone past 50 on six occasions, but hasnt completed a century yet. Aslams six 50-plus scores are the most by any Pakistan batsman this year. ' ' '