Rain and runs at the MCG

Azhar Ali dives for safety to avoid being run-out at the non-striker's end. When you're seven short of a hundred, you tend to turn into a natural acrobat © Getty Images

Mickey Arthur checks in with the groundstaff © Getty Images and Cricket Australia

Both Pakistan wickets to fall on the day were to edges to the slip cordon © Getty Images and Cricket Australia

Azhar toasts a Boxing Day Test ton. Steven Smith is not as pleased © AFP

Asad Shafiq eased to a half-century as well © AFP

Not all cricket at the MCG was stopped by the rain © AFP

Mohammad Amir entertained with an unbeaten cameo before a second rain interruption forced early stumps © Getty Images

Rain stole everyone's thunder, though. The umpires took an early lunch expecting the weather to sour, and sour it did © AFP

Shafiq was taken out soon after play resumed, before Safraz Ahmed became Josh Hazlewood's 99th Test wicket © Getty Images