Australia Ends Ths Historic Tour With A T20 Win Against Pakistan

The visiting team Australia has won the T20 series of just one match played between Pakistan and Australia. Both teams faced each other on April 5 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

Aaron Finch won the toss and elected to bowl first. Batting first, Pakistan team managed to score 162 runs in the allotted overs for the loss of eight wickets. For the team, captain Babar Azam continued to impress with his form. This was his 7 consecutive 50 scores in all formats of cricket. Coming as an opener, he scored 66 runs. During this innings, he faced 46 balls and hit six fours and two sixes.

For Australia, 27-year-old fast bowler Nathan Ellis bowled superbly and was lethal in the slog overs. Bowling four overs for the team, he bagged 4 wickets and conceded 28 runs. In the slog overs, he bagged wickets of Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali and Shaheen Afridi.

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Pakistan were 64 for no loss in 7 overs and it looked like they would score 180 . Certainly, that would have been enough to win the T20 match. However, wickets at successive events halted the scoring rate. After Babar Azam got out at 118, the team stumbled and with help of Usman Qadir’s 18 off 6, Pakistan scored 162 runs.

Furthermore, Australia faced no big trouble while chasing the target. Aaron Finch played a clinical innings and was on till the 18th over. With help from his innings, Australian team chased down the target with the lost seven wickets and five balls to spare. Captain Aaron Finch played a crucial innings of 55 runs to ensure Australian victory in the only T20 match.

During his innings, he played significantly well and hit 6 classy fours. Finch received the ‘Player of the Match’ for this fine half-century. Whereas, other middle order batsmen played sluggish innings. However, Marcus Stoinis hammered 23 off 9 balls which brought the required run rate well under control.

In the only match for the Pakistan team, Shaheen Afridi, Usman Qadir and Mohammad Wasim got two successes respectively. Apart from this, Haris Rauf took a wicket. In the slog overs, Pakistan made a little comeback However, the chasing total wasn’t big enough to pull out a victory.