Whitewash defeat to Pakistan in Australia’s T20 international series

Whitewash defeat to Pakistan in Australia’s T20 international series

(Asghar Ali Mubarak)

Australia completed the whitewash in the series by defeating Pakistan in the third and final T20 International as well, the host team achieved the target of 118 runs for 3 wickets.

In the last match of the T20 series played in Hobart, Australia, the national team could not even play 20 overs and the entire team returned to the pavilion on 117 runs in 18.1 overs.

7 players of Pakistan could not even enter double figures. In response, Australia adopted an aggressive attitude and achieved the desired target in 11.2 overs with only 3 wickets.

Jack Fraser McGurk, Matthew Short opened the innings for Australia, they got out for 18 and 2 runs respectively after which captain Josh Ingles came in to bat and played an innings of 27 runs.

However, Marcus Stoins made a lot of trouble for the Pakistani bowlers, he did not spare the successful T20 and ODI bowler Haris Rauf and scored 21 runs by hitting him with two sixes and two fours in a single over.

Marcus Stoins played an unbeaten innings of 61 runs off 27 balls, which included 5 sixes and 5 fours. Shaheen Afridi, Abbas Afridi and Jahandad Khan took one wicket each for the Pakistani team.

Earlier, national team captain Salman Ali Raogan won the toss and decided to bat first. Sahibzada Farhan and Babar Azam opened the innings on behalf of the Pakistani team, Farhan got out after scoring 9 runs, after which Haseebullah came to bat and he returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 24 runs.

Usman Khan, who scored a half-century after getting several chances in the previous match, also failed. Salman Ali, who led the team in place of Mohammad Rizwan, failed in the opening three T20Is, he managed to score 4 runs in the first match, zero in the second and only one run in the third.

Babar Azam resisted for some time but his courage was answered on 41 runs, Irfan Khan was out for 10 runs, Abbas Afridi was out for one run, Jahandad Khan was out for 5 runs, Shaheen Afridi was out for 16 runs and Safian Moqim was out for one run.

For Australia, Aaron Hardy 3, Adam Zampa and Spencer Johnson 2, 2 while Nathan Ellis managed to get a wicket. Pakistan have rested their skipper Mohammad Rizwan for the third T20I and will be replaced by vice-captain Salman Ali Agha to lead the charge, besides making two changes to the team.

Naseem Shah has been replaced by Jehandad Khan, who will make his debut for the national team, and Haseebullah has been included in place of Mohammad Rizwan.

On the other hand, Australia maintained its winning side and did not make any changes in the team.

In the Pakistan playing XI, Salman Ali Agha (captain), Sahibzada Farhan, Haseebullah (wicketkeeper), Babar Azam, Usman Khan, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Abbas Afridi, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Jahandad Khan and Safian Moqim;

Australia playing XI includes Josh Anlags (captain), Jack Fraser McGurk, Matthew Short, Glenn Maxwell, Tim David, Marcus Stoins, Aaron Hardy, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa and Spencer Johnson were.

It should be noted that the first T20 match between Pakistan and Australia was affected by rain due to which the match was limited to 7 overs per innings in which Australia defeated Pakistan by 29 runs.

was In the second T20 International, Australia defeated the Pakistan team by 13 runs.