ODI series: Pakistan defeats Australia after 22 years on its home soil
(Asghar Ali Mubarak)
ODI series: After 22 years, Pakistan defeated Australia on their home soil, Haris Rauf was named Man of the Series and Man of the Match for his brilliant performance, he took 2 wickets in today’s match and 10 wickets in the series.
Pakistan won the ODI series in Australia against the Kangaroos in 2002. Pakistan’s pace battery destroyed the Kangaroos’ batting line, the national team defeated Australia in 31.5 overs. 9 players were dismissed for 140 runs while one player did not come back to bat due to injury.
Opened the batting in style and gave the team a start of 84 runs. Saim Ayub, who made a half-century in the previous match, played an innings of 42 runs while Abdullah Shafiq was dismissed with 37 runs. Captain Mohammad Rizwan remained unbeaten on 30 runs and Babar Azam on 28 runs.
Both wickets were taken by Linus Morris from Australia. Earlier, national team captain Muhammad Rizwan invited Australia to bat first by winning the toss, Sean Abbott scored 30 runs from Australia and 6 of his players scored double. Could not even enter the figure.
Australia’s opening pair also failed in this match, Jack Fraser McGurk was dismissed after scoring just 7 runs and Matthew Short played an innings of 22 runs.
Captain Josh Ingles could only score 7 runs, Aaron Hardy managed to score 12 runs, Cooper Connolly was retired for 7 runs, and Mohammad Hasnain’s ball hit his hand which injured him. Being a victim of Rauf, he returned to the pavilion without opening his account, all-rounder Marcus Stoinis could only score 8 runs,
Adam Zampa scored 13 runs. On behalf of the national team, Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi took 3 wickets, Haris Rauf took 2 wickets and Mohammad Hasnain took one wicket.
The Pakistan team has retained the winning side from the previous match, however Australia has made 5 changes in the team, and the hosts have given Cooper Connolly, Marcus Stoins, Sean Abbott, Spencer Johnson and Linus Morris a chance. Against India.
of the Test series, Australia have rested their key players including captain Pat Cummins, Steve Smith, Marence Labuchin, Mitchell Starc, and Josh Hazlewood.
It should be noted that Australia defeated Pakistan after an interesting match in the first ODI, while the national team played brilliantly in the second match to defeat the host team by 9 wickets to level the series 1-1.