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Pakistan handed Australia its biggest-ever decision successful a Twenty20 conscionable 5 days up of the T20 World Cup to expanse the bid 3-0 connected Sunday.
Pakistan's commanding 111-run triumph successful the 3rd and last crippled eclipsed Australia's erstwhile biggest decision erstwhile England registered a 100-run triumph astatine Southampton successful 2005.
Australia, 1 of the title-contenders astatine the T20 World Cup to beryllium jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka, continued to conflict against spinners arsenic left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz grabbed a career-best 5-18 and the visitors were bowled retired for 96 successful 16.5 overs.
Pakistan, which won its 3rd successive flip successful the series, had earlier posted a daunting 207-6 – its highest-ever full successful a T20 against Australia.
“From the past 2 days, we person been fantabulous successful each departments, I can't find immoderate mistakes,” said Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha. “We dominated them. I americium successful a large framework of caput close now. I cognize however to grip the captaincy erstwhile I spell retired to bat and I truly privation to bash that successful the World Cup arsenic well.”
Opener Saim Ayub made 56 disconnected 57 balls and Babar Azam, who had been nether scrutiny for his onslaught complaint successful T20s, struck an unbeaten 50 disconnected 36 balls. However, it was a blazing 46 disconnected 19 balls by Shadab Khan, which included 5 sixes, that acceptable Pakistan for a beardown total.
Nawaz cashed successful connected the dilatory wicket and flummoxed Australia's experienced batters aft Shaheen Shah Afridi had cleanable bowled skipper Mitchell Marsh (1) and Matt Renshaw (1) successful his archetypal 2 overs.
Marcus Stoinis, playing his archetypal lucifer of the series, top-scored with 23 portion Cameron Green scored 22 earlier some were undone by Nawaz and were clean-bowled. Nawaz completed his five-wicket haul successful his last implicit erstwhile Josh Philippe top-edged a slog expanse to mid-wicket and Khawaja Nafay had Cooper Connolly stumped.
Earlier, left-hander Ayub smashed six fours and 2 sixes, and contributed to a 69-run basal with Babar aft skipper Salman Ali Agha (5) and Fakhar Zaman (10) got retired wrong the powerfulness play.
Ayub fell to a spectacular diving drawback by Renshaw astatine heavy mid-wicket earlier Khawaja Nafay, selected arsenic backup wicketkeeper for the T20 World Cup, made a fearless 21 disconnected 12 balls.
Babar had struggled astatine his caller No. 4 batting slot, but anchored the innings good arsenic Shadab smashed sixes and Pakistan scored 70 runs successful the past 5 overs. Babar completed his half-century successful the last implicit arsenic Faheem Ashraf deed 2 boundaries aft Shadab edged Ben Dwarshuis (2-39) successful the penultimate over.
Green (1-43) bowled 3 costly overs successful the 2nd fractional of the innings arsenic Pakistan scored 200-plus for the archetypal clip successful a T20 against Australia.
“Pakistan surely outplayed america passim the full series,” said Marsh, who was rested successful the archetypal game. “Chasing is hard connected that surface… we volition instrumentality learnings from that. We volition surely code this bid and look guardant to the World Cup.”
Pakistan won the archetypal lucifer by 19 runs earlier beating Australia by 90 runs successful the second.
