A fantastic match to watch; Australia a strong contender of the world cup with an unstoppable winning record of continues 34 matches in world cups, finally stopped by Pakistan. Pakistan defeated Australia by 4 wickets tops the group with a remaining of 54 balls with a brilliant performance that sum up Australia in just 177 in 46.4 overs which is the lowest total for Australia since 1992 world cup, since 1999 Australia never lost a match in world cups till today.
Pakistan team is already grooming its effort and improving consistently in this world cup with a stunning bowling strength. Australian team stumbled up in-front of Pakistani bowling attack, unbelievable sight to see an in-form team struggling against Umar Gul, Hafeez and Razzaq’s magical pace attack.
Despite having a super squads of warriors Australia were struggling in initial mandatory power play and could achieve only 36 runs which was a lowest power play total by Australia in this world cup so far, even if they took 12.2 overs to score 50 runs, BJ Hadding stood in the crease for a long time with steady progress with Ricky Ponting but he departed at the score of 75 in 18.4 overs, it was a crisis for Australia, Some how Haddin managed to support for a long innings but unfortunately got out by a caught to Kamran Akmal by bowled by Wahab Riaz, MJ Clarke played responsibly for a short period of time but bowled out by Abdur Razzaq no one else could contribute a decent runs for the team except Smith’s 25 runs finally Australia all out by 177 couldn’t played the whole 50 overs.
Pakistan started the chase with a hope to defeat the world champion but fall of wicket started at very initial over of power play and they lost Mohammad Hafeez in third over. As it was small scoring match Australian bowling attack was up to the ultimatum aggression, Bret Lee bowled a superb spell and controlled attack stump to stump and as usual a bouncing effort through out and he succeed in control the batsmen in crease. Pakistan too fell into the trend of loosing wicket in regular interval with a slow pace chase, one time Bret Lee took consecutive two wickets in the score of 98, Ashad Shafiq played a long savior innings for Pakistan and stood for a personal contribution of 46 runs, Australian hope ignited for a while and pressure shifted for fielding team to batting team but a responsible and understanding stand by Umar Akmal and Abdul Razzaq finally given a chance to recreate history and helped Pakistan to give a breakthrough to stop Australian unstoppable winning chariot, Pakistan managed to achieve the target of 178 with remaining of 54 balls.
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