PAK vs AUS Highlights : Pakistan won the 3-match ODI series 2-1. In the third and decisive match, Pakistan had a target of 141 runs to win, which it easily achieved by losing 2 wickets. Pakistan achieved this target in just 26.5 overs. This is Pakistan's first series win under the captaincy of Mohammad Rizwan. Rizwan scored 28 runs while Babar Azam played an unbeaten innings of 30 runs. After 22 years, Pakistan has defeated Australia at its home.
Chasing the target of 141 runs, Abdullah Shafique and Sam Ayub made a great start for Pakistan. Both of them made a match-winning partnership of 84 runs for the first wicket. Ayub was dismissed after scoring 42 runs off 52 balls. As soon as Ayub was dismissed, Pakistan suffered a second blow at the score of 85 runs when Abdullah Shafique was dismissed after scoring 37 runs off 53 balls. After the fall of two wickets, Babar and Rizwan made an unbeaten partnership of 58 runs for the third wicket.
Earlier, after winning the toss, Rizwan invited Australia to bat, but like the second match, once again the entire Australian team looked helpless in front of Pakistani fast bowling. As a result, the Australian team could not even play the full overs and collapsed after scoring 140 runs in 31.5 overs. Australia's poor batting can be gauged from the fact that Sean Abbott played the highest innings of 30 runs from their side. 6 batsmen from Australia could not even touch the double-digit mark.
Pakistan's pace battery fired again. Pakistan's fast bowlers impressed a lot on this tour. Pakistan's trio wreaked havoc in the third and decisive match. Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi took 3-3 wickets while Haris Rauf took 2 wickets. Rauf had also taken 5 wickets in the second ODI.
With this win, Pakistan won the 3-match ODI series 2-1 despite trailing 0-1. Australia won the first match by 2 wickets. While in the second and third ODIs, Pakistan's team dominated and won. Pakistan won the second ODI by 9 wickets while it won the third and decisive match by 8 wickets. Now the team will play a 3-match T20 series which will start on 14th November.
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