Twenty20 World Championship 2007
Australia vs Pakistan
ICC World 20-20, AUS vs PAK, Super 8: Pakistan beat Australia by 6 wickets
Sep 18, 2007
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
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164 for 7 (20.0 overs)
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165 for 4 (19.1 overs)
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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| 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) | |||
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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| 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) | |||
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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
Twenty20 Schedule, South Africa
World Twenty20 2007
Group A:
11 September: South Africa vs West Indies at Johannesburg13 September: West Indies vs Bangladesh at Johannesburg
15 September: South Africa vs Bangladesh at Cape Town
Group B:
12 September: Australia vs Zimbabwe at Cape Town13 September: Zimbabwe vs England at Cape Town
14 September: Australia vs England at Cape Town
Group C:
12 September: New Zealand vs Kenya at Durban14 September: Sri Lanka vs Kenya at Johannesburg
15 September: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand at Johannesburg
Group D:
12 September: Pakistan vs Scotland at Durban13 September: India vs Scotland at Durban
14 September: India vs Pakistan at Durban
Super Eight phase:
16 September: New Zealand vs India at Johannesburg16 September: Australia vs Bangladesh at Cape Town
16 September: South Africa vs England at Cape Town
17 September: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka at Johannesburg
18 September: New Zealand vs England at Durban
18 September: Australia vs Pakistan at Johannesburg
18 September: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka at Johannesburg
19 September: South Africa vs New Zealand at Durban
19 September: England vs India at Durban
20 September: Australia vs Sri Lanka at Cape Town
20 September: Bangladesh vs Pakistan at Cape Town
20 September: South Africa vs India at Durban
Semi-finals:
22 September: New Zealand vs Pakistan at Cape Town22 September: India vs Australia at Durban
Final:
24 September at JohannesburgThe first Twenty20 World Cup, 2007
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