Sunday, March 20, 2011

Australia Vs Pakistan at Colombo

The 40th game in the world cup ended the winning streak of Australia of 34 consecutive unbeaten games. last time Australia lost a game was in 1999 world cup against the same opposition.
Ricky Ponting for Australia won the toss and elected to bat first . They lost watson early on score of 12 runs, after that ponting and haddin added 63 runs for the second wicket. Once these two were dismissed no other Aussie batsman could stay on the wicket for a longer period , they were all out on 176 in 46.4 overs. Haddin top scored with 42 , Clarke made 34 and smith added useful 25 runs.
Umar gul picked 3/30 and razzak took 2/8. Rehman, Riaz, Afridi and Hafeez picked a wicket each. It was a real struggle for the Australian batsman , they found very difficult to score runs. 
Chasing 177 to win pakistan never looked in serious trouble and the got the winning runs in the 41st over with the loss of 6 wickets. Shafeeq made 46 and U.Akmal made important 44 runs. U.Khan also contributed with 31runs.

Brett lee was very effective with 4/28 but other bowlers failed to give him support. kretja and jhonson could only pick a wicket each.

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