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Cricket, 3rd Test , 4th Day: Australia Beats Pakistan

SYDNEY: Australia has beaten Pakistan in the 4th day of the 3rd cricket match played here on Saturday (6th of Jan., 2024) on fourth day to whitewash to win the series 3-nil.

Australia. that was chasing a measly target of 130 runs set by Pakistan, easily made it for the loss of two wickets.

Scores:

Pakistan: 313 and 115

Australia: 299 and 130 for two.

APP Adds: David Warner enjoyed a fairytale finish to his Test career as his half-century spearheaded Australia’s comfortable chase of the 130-run target on day four of the SCG Test against Pakistan.

Australia’s eight-wicket win, following victories in Perth and Melbourne, sees them claim a series sweep over Pakistan.

The day began with solid resistance offered by Mohammad Rizwan and Aamir Jamal over the course of the first hour, according to information made available here by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

The two nudged the ball around to help Pakistan cross the 100-run mark before Rizwan (28, 57b, 1×4) eventually fell to Nathan Lyon.

The wicketkeeper-batter, who ends the series as Pakistan’s leading scorer with 193 runs in four innings, inside-edged the Lyon delivery to Warner at first slip.

Pakistan’s woes worsened when Aamir (18, 47b, 2x4s) was caught by Travis Head at deep square leg while attempting to whack one out of the park off the bowling of Pat Cummins.

Lyon did the honors of taking the last Pakistan wicket to fall when he dismissed Hasan Ali as the visitors were all out for 115.

Australia’s pursuit of the modest target of 130 was disrupted early with the wicket of Usman Khawaja in the first over.

Khawaja, dismissed for naught, was beaten by a Sajid Khan delivery to hit his pads and was adjudged LBW.

The first-over wicket did little to deter Australia’s charge as Warner unleashed an array of attacking strokes to put his team in the ascendancy.

He employed some adventurous strokeplay, marked by the use of switch-hits and reverse sweeps, to bring up the 37th and final fifty of his Test career.

Australia went to lunch needing only 39 runs more for victory, with Marnus Labuschagne also growing in confidence.

With Australia 11 runs short of the target, Sajid removed Warner (57, 75b, 7x4s) following a successful review of an LBW shout turned down by the on-field umpire.

Labuschagne knocked off the winning run, finishing the chase unbeaten on 62 off 73 balls with nine fours.

Aamir was declared player of the match for his stellar 82 in the first inning, followed by a brilliant six-fer with the ball.

Meanwhile, Australia captain Cummins was named player of the series for his series-topping tally of 19 wickets.

The post-match presentation ceremony, highlighted by heartwarming tributes for Warner, also saw Pakistan skipper Shan Masood present a signed Babar Azam jersey as a parting gift to the retiring opener.

Scores in brief
Australia beat Pakistan by eight wickets.
Pakistan 313 all out, 77.1 overs (Mohammad Rizwan 88, Aamir Jamal 82, Salman Ali Agha 53, Shan Masood 35; Pat Cummins 5-61, Mitchell Starc 2-75, Mitchell Marsh 1-27) and 115 all out, 43.1 overs (Saim Ayub 33, Mohammad Rizwan 28, Babar Azam 23; Josh Hazlewood 4-16, Nathan Lyon 3-36).
Australia 299 all out, 109.4 overs (Marnus Labuschagne 60, Mitchell Marsh 54, Usman Khawaja 47, Alex Carey 38, Steven Smith 38; Aamir Jamal 6-69, Salman Ali Agha 2-43) and 130-2, 25.5 overs (Marnus Labuschagne 62 not out, David Warner 57; Sajid Khan 2-49)
Player of the Match: Aamir Jamal (Pakistan)
Player of the Series: Pat Cummins (Australia))

AFP Adds: Australian opener David Warner drew the curtain on a 112-Test career spanning 12 years Saturday with a swashbuckling 57 against Pakistan, leaving his home Sydney Cricket Ground to a standing ovation.

The polarizing 37-year-old was dismissed lbw by spinner Sajid Khan in the third Test, slamming seven boundaries in a 75-ball stay.

“It’s pretty much a dream come true to win 3-0 and cap off what has been a great 18 months to two years for the Australian team,” he said after Australia claimed an eight-wicket victory for a sweep of the series.

“I’m just proud to be with a bunch of great cricketers. These guys — they work their backsides off.

“To come here in front of my home crowd and the support they have shown me and the team over the last decade of my career, I can’t thank them enough,” he added.

He departed the red-ball game after plundering 8,786 runs at an average of 44.60, with a strike rate of 70.20, blasting 26 centuries and 37 half-centuries.

A larger-than-life character, Warner also collected 91 catches as one of the most consistent slip fielders in cricket.

“He is probably our greatest-ever three-format player. He’ll be a loss,” Australian coach Andrew McDonald said ahead of the Test.

Warner last week also announced his retirement from one-day international cricket, but is expected to continue in the Twenty20 format.

While one of the finest openers the sport has known, Warner’s exploits will forever be overshadowed by the role he played in the notorious “sandpaper-gate” ball-tampering scandal of 2018.

He was seen as the chief plotter when Cameron Bancroft used sandpaper to scuff the ball before a crude attempt to conceal the evidence down his trousers during the third Test in Cape Town.

Along with skipper Steve Smith, he was suspended for a year by Cricket Australia, stripped of the vice-captaincy and banned from ever leading the team.

Despite the controversies Warner was welcomed back into the Australia fold when his ban ended and made his comeback during the Ashes series against England in 2019.

He has been a fixture ever since with selectors now facing the difficult decision of who replaces him, with a two-Test home series against the West Indies starting on 17th January 17 in Adelaide.

Recognized openers Bancroft, Marcus Harris and Matt Renshaw are seen as the contenders to fill the role.

However, Smith added a twist to the plot this week when he put his hand up to move up from number four and do the job.

That would open the door for the return of young all-rounder Cameron Green in the middle of the order, having been overlooked in recent Tests in favour of a resurgent Mitchell Marsh.

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