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PAKISTAN vs AUSTRALIA (2nd INNINGS)

BENGALURU: Pakistan have won the toss and elected to field first against Australia in the 18th match of the ICC World Cup 2023 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Australia

David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis (wk), Marcus Stoinis, Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

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Pakistan

Babar Azam (c), Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi

HEAD TO HEAD RECORD:

Overall ODIs: Matches 107, Australia 69, Pakistan 34, NR 3, Tied 1

ODI World Cup: Matches 10, Australia 6, Pakistan 4

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BENGALURU: Pakistan have won the toss and elected to field first against Australia in the 18th match of the ICC World Cup 2023 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Australia

David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis (wk), Marcus Stoinis, Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

Watch ICC World Cup 2023 Live on ARY ZAP

Pakistan

Babar Azam (c), Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi

HEAD TO HEAD RECORD:

Overall ODIs: Matches 107, Australia 69, Pakistan 34, NR 3, Tied 1

ODI World Cup: Matches 10, Australia 6, Pakistan 4

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MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia on Sunday revealed the series schedule for the Pakistan men’s team Test tour to Australia later this year.

The three-game Test series begins on December 14 and runs across the next year with the final Test scheduled in the first week of January.

The opening Test will be staged in Perth between December 14 and 18 before the two sides return after Christmas with the Boxing Day Test (December 26-30) at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The tour concludes with the third Test in Sydney from January 3 to January 7, 2024.

It must be noted here that three Tests against Pakistan will be Australia’s first home series of the new World Test Championship cycle (2023-25).

Australia are the finalist of the current WTC cycle and are set to play India at the Oval, London from June 7 to 11 for Test supremacy.

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BRISBANE: Australia Women crushed Pakistan by 10 wickets in the second ODI and took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series, thanks to a phenomenal batting display by openers Beth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield after Darcie Brown led the bowling charge.

Opting to bat first, Pakistan underwent a dismal batting collapse as they were bowled out for just 125 with Brown taking three wickets to lead the Australian bowling attack.

Australian openers, in reply, cruised to an effortless win inside 20 overs with Litchfield smashing an unbeaten 67 from 61 balls and Mooney scoring 57 not out from 55 balls.

Pakistan, who are looking for their first win in Australia across any format, were effectively thwarted by the Australian side after they sealed dominant wins in the first two games of the series.

The final ODI will be played on Sunday before the start of three T20Is, giving the Green Shirts a chance to gain momentum before the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa.

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SYDNEY: Australia’s star wicket-keeper batter Alyssa Healy has been ruled of the home T20I series against Pakistan as she continues her recovery from a calf injury sustained during Australia’s recent tour of India. 

Cricket Australia on Friday confirmed that Healy is expected to return in the upcoming Women’s T20 World Cup in February after missing three T20Is against Pakistan.

However, she will remain with the squad during the home series as she continues her rehabilitation.

Australia named their T20I squad for the Pakistan series and the showpiece event in South Africa earlier this week. Meg Lanning, the team’s captain, will play in her first international match since August 2022, and leg spinner Georgia Wareham, is returning to the lineup after her previous T20I appearance in October 2021.

Australia will play three ODIs and as many T20Is against Pakistan, commencing on January 16.

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KARACHI: The next edition of the Cricket Australia’s Amazon documentary will feature their historic tour to Pakistan after a gap of 24 years in April 2022, Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Originally devised to encompass last summer’s Ashes campaign, the follow-up to Amazon’s 2018-19 documentary about the Australian men’s team is their recent triumphant Test tour of Pakistan, the Australian magazine reported.

According to the details, the centrepieces of the documentary are likely to be the homecoming tour of the opening batter Usman Khawaja and the emergence of Pat Cummins as the Test captain.

Furthermore, the Amazon camera crew including the project’s key cinematographer were present with the squad on their tour of Pakistan. The documentary is still in progress with Australia’s current tour of Sri Lanka reportedly also a part of the project.

The documentary’s release date has not yet been determined, although it is anticipated to happen in the first few months of 2019. The documentary’s first instalment, which focused on the 2018–19 campaign, was published in March 2020.

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LAHORE: Australia’s right-arm pacer Nathan Ellis starred with four wickets before the skipper Aaron Finch scored a gritty half-century to power the touring side beat Pakistan by three wickets in the one-off T20I, here at Gaddafi Stadium.

Set to chase 163, Australia sealed a thrilling victory by three wickets in the last over, thanks to the valiant fifty-plus knock from the captain Finch.

In the run chase, the touring side was off to a flying start following the blistering cameo of Travis Head, who scored a quick 26 off 14 deliveries before walking back to the pavilion in the fourth over.

Finch then put on another brief partnership as he paired with the wicket-keeper batter Josh Inglis for the second wicket and added 44 runs before the latter perished after scoring 24.

Following Inglis’s departure, Marnus Labuschagne also fell briefly after managing to score a mere two.

The right-handed opener Marcu Stoinis then bolstered the touring side’s score with a blistering cameo of 23 runs off just nine deliveries before falling short to Mohammad Wasim Jr.

Finch, on the other hand, stood firm and scored a gritty half-century, while his side was losing wickets at a regular interval. He top-scored for the side with 55 off 45 balls, laced with six boundaries, while Ben McDermott remained unbeaten with his 22 and guided his side to the victory.

For Pakistan, Wasim Jr, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Usman Qadir took two wickets each, while Haris Rauf struck out a batter.

After putting Pakistan in to bat, the touring side managed to restrict Pakistan to a below-par 162/8 in 20 overs despite the brilliant half-century from Pakistan captain Babar Azam.

Coming out to bat first, Pakistan were off to a decent start as the opening pair of Babar and the wicket-keeper batter Mohammad Rizwan provided a solid foundation to the home side with a 67 runs partnership.

Rizwan, however, who was struggling to get going, perished earlier in the eighth over after managing to score 23 in 19 balls. Following his departure, the left-handed batter Fakhar Zaman bagged a golden duck as the home side lost two wickets in two balls.

Babar then looked to anchor the innings with Iftikhar Ahmed but the latter could not stay for long as he made his way back to the pavilion after managing to score a mere 13.

The Pakistani skipper Babar top-scored for the side with 66 off 46 balls, laced with six boundaries and two sixes before walking back to the pavilion in the 16th over.

Following his departure, the home side began to lose wickets at an alarming rate and none of the batters could contribute significantly. The left-handed all-rounder Khushdil Shah, however, chipped in with his 24 off 21 balls and remained the second top scorer for the side.

The cameo of the leg-spinner Usman Qadir then bolstered the side’s score to 162/8 as he scored a quick 18 off a mere six deliveries.

For Australia, Nathan Ellis led the way with four wickets, while Cameron Green picked two. Adam Zampa and Sean Abbott, on the other hand, made one scalp each.

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LAHORE: Australia have won the toss and have elected to bowl first in the one-off T20I against Pakistan, here at Gaddafi Stadium.

PLAYING XIs

Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman, , Asif Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Wasim, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Usman Qadir

Australia: Aaron Finch (c), Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Marcus Stoinis, Cameron Green, Ben McDermott, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa

HEAD TO HEAD

Matches-23, Pakistan-13, Australia-10

LAHORE: Australia’s wicket-keeper batter Josh Inglis has returned a negative result for COVID-19, while the all-rounder Ashton Agar tested positive for the widely spread virus, here on Monday.

Inglis, who contracted the widely spread virus last week has now returned a negative result after the completion of his mandatory isolation period and is likely to join the team’s practice session ahead of the one-off T20I against Pakistan.

The all-rounder Agar, on the other hand, has tested positive again for COVID-19 after returning a negative result in the morning.

It is pertinent to mention here that the one-off T20I between Pakistan and Australia will be played here tomorrow. Pakistan won the three-match ODI series 2-1, while Australia claimed the Test series 1-0.

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LAHORE: Interim Australia head coach Andrew McDonald has stated that the touring squad would take many pleasant memories from their historic tour to Pakistan after 24 years.

McDonald, while talking to the media via virtual conference has claimed that the Pakistan tour was outstanding in all aspects and felt really happy to visit the country after a long gap.

“I felt very happy to come to Pakistan after a long time. Pakistan’s tour was amazing in all respects,” he said.

“We will always remember the way Pakistani fans welcomed us. We will be taking a lot of good and pleasant memories with us from this tour,” he added.

McDonald further expressed his joy on the touring side’s triumph in the historic Test series against Pakistan and claimed it was not easy to beat the green shirts in their home conditions.

“I am very happy about the win against Pakistan in the historic Test series. It wasn’t easy to defeat the Pakistan team in their own conditions,” he said.

The interim head coach further commented about the Pakistan team’s performance in the recently concluded ODI series, while also terming Babar Azam as a world-class batter.

“Pakistan played excellent cricket in the ODI series. Babar Azam is undoubtedly a world-class batsman,” he said.

McDonald then also commented on Australia’s white-ball captain Aaron Finch’s dismal performance and said that players go through such times.

“Aaron Finch is lacking the form currently but the players go through such times. I am working with Finch wherever he is having difficulty, and he is working for improvement,” he concluded.

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