Australia vs Pakistan Twenty20 World Championship 2007


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Twenty20 World Championship 2007

Australia vs Pakistan

ICC World 20-20, AUS vs PAK, Super 8: Pakistan beat Australia by 6 wickets

Australia Cricket team Pakistan Cricket team Led by captain Malik and Misbah Ul Haq , Pakistan inflicted a humiliating defeat on Australia chasing the set target with 5 balls and six wickets in hand. Pakistan earlier touted as favorites seeing their talent and experience have now two back to back wins over Sri Lanka and Australia respectively. Pakistan now are most likely to enter the Semifinal.
Chasing a total of 164 runs for victory against Australia, Pakistan managed to recover well led by its captain Shoaib Malik and Misbah Ul Haq, who scored a brilliant fifty. Pakistan required just 22 runs of last three overs. However a straight drive from Misbah meant Pakistan now need just 16 runs on same number of balls.
Batting first on a placid Johannesburg wicket against a formidable bowling attack of Pakistan, Australia managed to their rivals a decent total of 164 runs to chase. Australia in pursuit lost wickets at regular intervals, which stopped them from putting a mammoth total.
ICC World Twenty20, AUS vs PAK, Super 8: Pakistan 165-4 (19.1 overs) beat Australia 164-7 (20 overs) by six wickets

Twenty20 World Championship 2007

Australia vs Pakistan

Scorecard

Pakistan won the toss and decided to field
164 for 7 (20.0 overs)
165 for 4 (19.1 overs)

Australia Innings - Close
 
 
Runs
Balls
4s
6s
Gilchrist c Hafeez b Tanvir
24
12 5 0
Hayden c Younis b Tanvir
1
5 0 0
Ponting
 
b Hafeez
27
26 3 0
Symonds
 
b Afridi
29
18 5 0
Hussey c Nazir b Tanvir
37
25 3 1
Hodge c Younis b Asif
36
29 3 0
Clarke run out
 
0
1 0 0
Lee not out
 
2
3 0 0
Johnson not out
 
1
1 0 0
Extras
 
3w 1b 3lb 7
 
Total
 
for 7 164 (20.0 ovs)

Bowler
O
M
R
W
Asif 4.0 0 34 1
Tanvir 4.0 0 31 3
Afridi 4.0 1 35 1
Hafeez 4.0 0 31 1
Gul 4.0 0 29 0
Fall of wicket
 
8 Hayden
32 Gilchrist
80 Symonds
92 Ponting
155 Hussey
159 Clarke
162 Hodge

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Pakistan Innings - Close
 
 
Runs
Balls
4s
6s
Nazir c Johnson b Clark
10
10 1 1
Hafeez c Clarke b Clark
15
11 2 1
Butt lbw b Johnson
11
12 2 0
Younis c Lee b Clark
4
3 1 0
Malik not out
 
52
38 4 2
Misbah-ul-Haq not out
 
66
42 7 1
Extras
 
1nb 5w 1lb 7
 
Total
 
for 4 165 (19.1 ovs)

Bowler
O
M
R
W
Lee 4.0 0 30 0
Bracken 4.0 0 35 0
Clark 4.0 0 27 3
Johnson 4.0 0 28 1
Symonds 2.1 0 27 0
Clarke 1.0 0 17 0
Fall of wicket
 
25 Nazir
27 Hafeez
35 Younis
46 Butt

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Umpires: M R Benson, N J Llong
Australia: Gilchrist, Hayden, Ponting, Symonds, Hussey, Hodge, Clarke, Lee, Johnson, Bracken, Clark
Pakistan: Butt, Nazir, Hafeez, Younis, Malik, Afridi, Akmal, Misbah-ul-Haq, Asif, Gul, Tanvir


Editor: Nishanth Gopinathan.