Australia vs Pakistan Tests November 2019: Australia Win 2-0 Both by Innings — David Warner 489 Runs, 335* at Adelaide (Highest-Ever Adelaide Oval Score, Surpassing Don Bradman's 334)

Australia won the Pakistan Test series November-December 2019 by 2-0, both matches won by an innings. David Warner scored 489 runs to win Player of the Series — 154 at The Gabba, Brisbane (1st Test, Australia won by an innings and 5 runs) and 335* at Adelaide Oval (2nd Test, Australia won by an innings and 48 runs). Warner's 335* at Adelaide was the highest score ever made at Adelaide Oval, surpassing Don Bradman's 334 (which Mark Taylor had equalled in 1998 before Taylor declared without attempting to surpass Bradman). Mitchell Starc took 14 wickets across both Tests. Tim Paine declared Australia's innings closed when Warner was on 335* in the 2nd Test. Tim Paine captained Australia; Azhar Ali captained Pakistan.

Warner 335* at Adelaide: The Highest Score in Adelaide Oval History

David Warner scoring 335* at Adelaide Oval in the 2nd Test against Pakistan — batting 418 balls, hitting 39 fours and 1 six — surpassed Don Bradman's 334 as the highest score ever made at Adelaide Oval, the ground that Bradman played much of his home Test career at and where his 334 (scored against England in 1930 at Headingley, not Adelaide — but Bradman's Adelaide Oval record of 299* was his highest at that ground specifically) was embedded in the venue's batting history. Tim Paine's decision to declare Australia's innings with Warner on 335* — rather than allowing Warner to bat on toward 400 — echoed Mark Taylor's celebrated 1998 decision at Peshawar: Taylor had reached 334* (equalling Bradman's Test record) and declared without attempting to pass it. Warner, by reaching 335* before Paine's declaration, surpassed both Taylor's 334* at Peshawar and became Adelaide Oval's highest individual scorer in Test history. Warner had batted from day one of the Adelaide Test through an extended innings in conditions (Adelaide's drop-in pitch, generally flat in summer, with the pink kookaburra in use for the day-night Tests but not this November day Test) that produced the most sustained individual batting of Australia's 2019 home summer.

Both Tests Won by an Innings: Mitchell Starc's 14 Wickets

Australia winning both Tests against Pakistan by an innings margin — Brisbane (innings and 5 runs) and Adelaide (innings and 48 runs) — with Mitchell Starc taking 14 wickets across both Tests confirmed Australia's domestic summer 2019 strength: Warner's batting (489 runs, including 154 at Brisbane and 335* at Adelaide) combined with Starc's left-arm pace wicket-taking that Pakistan's batting (Azhar Ali, Shan Masood, Babar Azam — who scored 210 series runs for Pakistan, the visiting side's top performer — Imam ul Haq, Asad Shafiq) could not withstand across two consecutive innings-defeat margins. The back-to-back innings wins — both at Australian venues (The Gabba, Brisbane and Adelaide Oval) where Australia's pace bowling had historically dominated visiting sub-continent batting — gave Tim Paine's Australian Test side their most emphatic bilateral result of the 2019-20 home summer: the 2-0 Pakistan series preceded the 2019-20 Ashes (drawn 2-2 in England) and Australia's subsequent New Zealand and South Africa series in the WTC 2019-21 cycle.

Australia vs Pakistan Tests November 2019 in Context

The Pakistan tour of Australia Tests November-December 2019 — The Gabba Brisbane (AUS won innings and 5) and Adelaide Oval (AUS won innings and 48) — produced Australia winning 2-0 with Warner's 489-run Player of the Series (including 335* at Adelaide, the highest score in Adelaide Oval Test history), Starc's 14 wickets, and two consecutive innings-margin wins that gave Tim Paine's Australia their most comprehensive bilateral of the 2019-20 home summer. Babar Azam's 210 series runs — the top individual aggregate for Pakistan's batting, the visiting side's best performer in a 0-2 bilateral — confirmed Babar's growing Test batting quality against Australia's pace attack (Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood) in home Australian conditions, a batting performance that preceded his emergence as Pakistan's Test batting anchor across the 2020-24 period.