Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match Special

"There's no more sting in the bowling without Wahab Riaz. No-one else looks like getting a wicket. He's got four overs left and Pakistan need to get him back on. Australia are doing it as they please at the moment."

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And now it's spin from both ends with Shahid Afridi returning at the Cathedral End, but having weathered that Wahab Riaz-shaped storm, the Aussie pair are finding easy pickings against the other bowlers. Nine from the over, with ones, twos and even a three. Smith up to 55, "Watto" has 39.

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Fenners: Bored of eclipse now. Back to the cricket.

Allan Border
Ex-Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

"That was compelling. It was as good a spell as I've seen for a long time. Wahab hardly bowled a loose delivery, but you can't help but feel that that dropped catch was a pivotal moment."

A change of attack as left-arm spinner Haris Sohail is on as Pakistan's sixth bowler, and Australia plunder three singles from a rapid over.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Steve Smith has turned his game around in spectacular fashion since last September.

"In ODIs to 30 September, 2014 he averaged 20.73 from 38 matches (477 runs and no hundreds or fifties).

"But since 1 October, 2014 he has averaged 69.08 in 18 matches (898 runs with three centuries and six fifties, including 52* today."

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Watson moves to 30 with a single - Australia's target is down to 91 from 28 overs (168 balls).

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special

On Twitter:, external The longer this goes on, the more Rahat Ali will be experiencing the Herschelle Gibbs feeling. #headingley99.

One senses that after briefly putting Australia into eclipse, Pakistan's chances of winning are waning a little as Sohail Khan is proving expensive - Watson blasting a four through mid-wicket while the bowler is charged with a couple of wides, making it seven for the innings. Sohail doesn't pose the threat that Riaz did, and Watson happily pulls him for another four.

Kevin Pietersen
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"Smith has been brilliant all summer. His technique is perfect for Australian wickets. His head is in such a good position. Your feet don't actually need to be that close to the ball as long as your head goes across."

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Riaz's reign of fire has finished after six overs, but Pakistan keep left-arm seam at the City End, turning back to Rahat Ali - and it's time for Steve Smith to take the applause of the Adelaide Oval crowd as another elegant four through the covers brings up his sixth ODI fifty - and his third of the tournament.

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Pete Naylor: Cor. There's some serious drama going on here. Properly good cricket...

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Australia 105-3 from 20 overs (target 214)

Batsmen: Smith 48, Watson 20

Fall of wickets: 15-1 (Finch 2), 49-2 (Warner 24), 59-3 (Clarke 8)

Bowling figures: Sohail Khan 6-0-33-1, Adil 2-0-8-0, Rahat Ali 4-0-27-0, Riaz 6-0-24-2, Afridi 2-0-14-0

Pakistan 213 all out: Haris Sohail 41, Hazlewood 4-35, Starc 2-40, Maxwell 2-43

Pakistan won toss

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Smith pushes Sohail for a single to move within two of his half-century, while Watson threads a four through the covers. A couple more off his legs, a single takes him to 20, and this partnership is worth 49.

Kevin Pietersen
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"There's a lot of interaction between the batsmen at a time like this. You've got to buddy up, your partner is your only friend out there. You can feel it in the changing room as well, guys are chewing their fingernails."

Wahab Riaz took five wickets on his Test debut against England at The Oval in 2010, including the scalps of Andrew Strauss, Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen. Later in a turbulent tour, blighted by the spot-fixing scandal, he was involved in an angry fracas with Trott in the nets at Lord's. Inconsistency has limited him to eight Tests, but he has remained an effective, if occasionally expensive, bowler in one-day cricket with 75 wickets at an average of 30.29 before today.

Watson helps himself to a two. For now, he's holding off and winning this battle. Having bowled six overs of raw pace, how long can he keep going?

Meanwhile, I wonder whether it would take a "Total Eclipse of the ECB" for KP to return to the England side. Bonnie Tyler could come in as coach - England would be encouraged to "turn around" their form, but every now and then they'd fall apart.

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England batsman James Taylor:, external Serious spell this from Wahab!! Some might say that will be a costly drop though.

It's Riaz time again - as the fiery left-arm paceman (who, lest we forget, had a reported dust-up with Jonathan Trott in the nets at Lord's in 2010 when they supposedly threw pads at each other) begins his sixth over, and resumes his short-pitched assault on Shane Watson, though a couple of his bouncers are called wide.

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Mo: Is this the beginning of an eclipse for the Australia innings?

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