Australia beat Pakistan by 62 runs

Australia beat Pakistan by 62 runs

In the 18th match of the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup 2023, Australia defeated Pakistan by 62 runs and secured the fourth position on the points table.

Pakistan cricket team's opening pair of Abdullah Shafiq and Imamul Haq provided a partnership of 134 runs, both the players completed their half-centuries.

After Abdullah Shafiq 64 and Imamul Haq 70 runs, no player could resist except Muhammad Rizwan 46, Saud Shakeel 30 and Iftikhar Ahmed 26 runs.

Babar Azam scored 18, Mohammad Nawaz 14 and Shaheen Shah Afridi returned to the pavilion scoring 10 runs, thus the whole team was bundled out for 305 runs in 45.3 overs.

For Australia, Adam Zampa took 4 wickets, Pete Cummins and Marcus Stoins took 2, 2 wickets.

In the match being played in Bengaluru, Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and decided to let Australia bat.

After the Australian openers' partnership of 259 runs, it looked like Pakistan would get a target of over 400, but the green shirts bowled well in the last overs.

Despite this, the Australian team achieved the record of the highest total against Pakistan in the history of the World Cup.

In the mega event, 10 days ago, Sri Lanka made a big total of 344 runs against Pakistan, but Australia scored 367 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs and claimed this record.

Australian openers David Warner and Mitchell Marsh had a great batting first David Warner and then Mitchell Marsh scored centuries and made a record partnership of 259 runs for the first wicket.

What happened was that on the third ball of the fifth over of the match, Usama Mir dropped the catch of Shaheen Afridi to David Warner, after which a wonderful partnership was established for the first wicket.

Mitchell Marsh became the victim of Shaheen Shah Afridi by playing 121 runs off 108 balls, during which he hit 9 sixes and 10 fours.

Australia's second wicket fell at the score of 259 only, Glenn Maxwell became the second victim of Shaheen Afridi without scoring.

With Australia's third wicket down at 284, Usama Mir sent Steve Smith to the pavilion, who scored just 7 runs. Pakistan got their fourth and biggest win in the form of the wicket of David Warner, who returned to the pavilion for a total score of 325 off Haris Rauf, hitting 9 sixes and 14 fours during his innings of 163 runs off 124 balls.e

Australia's fifth wicket fell for 339 runs, Josh Ingles scored 13 runs and became Haris Rauf's second victim. Pakistan got their sixth victory on the score of 354, Marcus Stoins scored 21 runs and was lbw off the ball of Shaheen Afridi. Australia's seventh wicket fell on the score of 360 for 8 runs by Marnes Labushin, who became Haris Rauf's third victim.

After that, Shaheen Afridi dismissed Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood on the first 2 balls of the last over, thus 9 Australian players returned to the pavilion. In the match, Shaheen Shah Afridi took 5 wickets by giving 54 runs in 10 overs and Haris Rauf took 3 wickets by giving 83 runs in 8 overs while 1 wicket went to Osama Mir, Hasan Ali, Muhammad Nawaz and Iftikhar Ahmed took no wickets. could not

Earlier, talking after the toss at the Channaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam said that we have trained well for this match and had many good practice sessions. Babar Azam said that we are just trying different combinations, will try to win this match by showing good performance, will try to take quick wickets on this pitch, batsmen will have to perform well against Australia.

On this occasion, Australian captain Pat Cummins said that if we had won the toss, we would have bowled first, there has been no change in the team. Pat Cummins said that batting first is fine but would have preferred to bowl first if they had won the toss.

Pakistan Team For today's match, Usama Mir has been included in the playing XI of the Pakistan team in place of the vice-captain Shadab Khan.