Australia has resumed its first innings after reaching 2/116 at stumps on a day when bad light and persistent rain prompted umpires to abandon play early.

David Warner was dismissed for 34 before it turned ugly with boos ringing around the SCG when a dour session of play was called off because of the poor light.

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Aussie batters were criticised for failing to take the game on after lunch with the run rate hovering just above two runs per over.

The Test is evenly poised after Pakistan recovered from 5/96 to reach 313 in its first innings.

No rain is expected to impact Day 3 with a top of 25C forecast in Sydney.

9.45am — Khawaja’s surprising retirement threat

After a miserable day of play on Thursday, calls emerged for Test cricket to transition to pink balls during days of poor light.

There were farcical scenes as players were called from the field on Day 2 because of the poor light, despite the lights coming on at the SCG.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan raised the pink ball option with Usman Khawaja on Fox Cricket — but the Aussie opener rejected it immediately.

“Pink ball is not the same as red ball,” Khawaja said.

“No bowler and no batter will ever tell you that pink ball is the same as red ball. It is not, it’s a different beast in itself. The red ball reacts way differently off the wicket, feels different off the bat. It acts different out of the hand.

“The red ball is Test cricket.”

When asked if playing all Test matches with a pink ball was the solution, Khawaja responded: “If it is, I’m retiring.”

8am — ‘Really odd’ tactic exposes Aussies

The Australian cricket team now boasts the greatest bowling quartet of all time, but they still have one glaring weakness.

It looked like the third Test could be over quickly when Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood dismissed both Pakistan openers for a duck on Day 1 and Pat Cummins picked up his third five-wicket haul in a row.

The tourists were 4/47 at one stage before Mohammad Rizwan score a counterattacking 88 to rescue Pakistan’s innings.

The job was nearly done at 9/227, only for No. 9 Aamer Jamal to play the innings of his life to frustrate the Australians and push Pakistan’s total to 313. Jamal finished on 82, his highest ever score in first class cricket.

Australia’s pacemen opted to send down bouncers at Pakistan’s tailenders. It yielded a couple of wickets but proved easy pickings for Jamal, who dispatched the world class bowling attack to the boundary.

In the last session on Wednesday, less than 2 per cent of deliveries were aimed at the stumps.

“I don’t think spreading the field out and only trying to get one batter out works very often,” Fox Cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle tweeted.

“Australia didn’t try hard enough to get Aamer Jamal out.”

Originally published as Australia vs Pakistan SCG Test live: Khawaja retirement threat from out of nowhere