Pakistan claimed a surprising nine-wicket win over Australia to degree their ODI sequence and arrange a decider in Perth on Sunday.
Australia suffered house humiliation in Adelaide as Pakistan, led by new captain Mohammad Rizwan, skittled their hosts for 163.
Rizwan equalled the document for probably the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in an ODI innings with six as the house facet had been bundled out in 35 overs.
Quick bowler Haris Rauf was Pakistan’s star with the ball, taking an excellent 5-29, earlier than Saim Ayub scored 82 and Abdullah Shafique 64 not out within the chase.
Ayub hit six sixes and 5 fours with former skipper Babar Azam finally clinching victory with a pullled six off Adam Zampa within the twenty seventh over.
Pakistan’s hopes of a sequence win might be additional boosted by Australia resting 5 of their stars – Mitchell Starc, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood – for the beginning of the five-Take a look at sequence towards India from November 22.
Wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis will fill in for Cummins as interim captain for Sunday’s Perth ODI.
How Pakistan pulled off a memorable away triumph
Ayub and Shafique had been criticised for a run of low scores in Take a look at matches, however each blunted the Australian tempo assault with a match-winning stand of 137 after Pakistan stored religion with the duo within the 50-over format.
Ayub took his time towards Hazlewood and Starc earlier than he grew in confidence and flicked Cummins, Starc and Aaron Hardie for sixes and likewise smashed Zampa for 2 maximums.
The left-hander, who made his ODI debut on the Melbourne Cricket Floor on Monday, obtained a reprieve simply earlier than reaching a half century when Zampa dropped a sitter at third man, however he provided a tame catch at brief third man simply when he regarded set for a century.
Earlier, Rauf, who practically pulled off a victory for Pakistan within the first sport earlier than they had been finally edged out by two wickets, discovered the skin edges of the bats persistently by hitting the proper lengths.
Australia’s Adam Zampa drops a catch amid the hosts’ failure to disclaim Pakistan a well-known win
Shaheen Shah Afridi (3-26) supplied the breakthroughs inside the primary powerplay, getting Jake Fraser-McGurk (13) – who hit three crisp boundaries on the off-side in Naseem Shah’s first over – and Matthew Quick (19).
Afridi dropped Quick at deep effective leg when the ball burst by his palms to the boundary however the left-arm quick bowler made amends when he had Quick caught at cowl after trapping Fraser-McGurk lbw.
Afridi ended Australia’s below-par innings when Zampa performed a full ball again onto his stumps.
Rauf sliced by the middle-order with Smith scoring 35 off 48 balls earlier than he chased a large ball from Mohammad Hasnain and edged behind to Rizwan.
