RAJIV GANDHI INT’L STADIUM (UPPAL): Pakistan lost the second warm-up match too, this time against Australia here on Tuesday (3rd of October, 2023).
Chasing Australia’s 351/7 Pakistani team went back to the gallery by scoring 337 in 47.4 overs.
Innings of Pakistan:
Innings of Australia:
AFP Adds: Australia edged out Pakistan by 14 runs in a high-scoring World Cup warm-up on Tuesday as India travelled 3,400km from one corner of the country to another only to be defeated by torrential rain.
In Hyderabad, Australia made 351-7 from their 50 overs with Glenn Maxwell particularly ruthless on Pakistan’s bowlers.
Maxwell cracked 77 off 71 balls with four boundaries and six sixes.
Cameron Green was undefeated on 50, David Warner clubbed three sixes in his 48 while Josh Inglis also made 48.
Marnus Labuschagne, a late call-up by the five-time World Cup winners, contributed 40.
Pakistan leg-spinner Usama Mir impressed with 2-31 as he dismissed Warner and Mitchell Marsh after the openers had put on 83 for the first wicket.
Mir’s leg-spinning partner Shadab Khan was expensive with his one wicket costing 69 runs.
In reply, Pakistan, who lost by five wickets to New Zealand in their opening warm-up, were dismissed for 337 in the 48th over.
Captain Babar Azam hit a fluent, unbeaten 90 off 59 balls with 11 boundaries and two sixes and shared a 144-run partnership with Iftikhar Ahmed who made 83 off 85 deliveries.
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