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If you thought India versus Pakistan was a skewed rivalry, hold till you spot the numbers down the ODI tussles betwixt Australia and Pakistan. A 16-0 grounds successful favour of the defending champion is conscionable the extremity of a precise grim iceberg.
The past clip these 2 sides met successful the format was successful 2023. Three monolithic defeats Down Under — by 8 wickets, 10 wickets, and 101 runs — followed. Heading into a important Women’s ODI World Cup fixture connected Wednesday here, which could conscionable enactment it retired of reckoning for a spot successful the knockouts, Pakistan volition consciousness the heat.
With 2 losses successful arsenic galore games — against Bangladesh and India — Pakistan faces an uphill task to find a triumph against an Australian batting juggernaut that is showing nary signs of stopping.
As is the lawsuit with astir Asian nations, its bowling has overmuch much heft than its faltering batting, which is yet to find bushed successful this tournament.
The highest ODI people Pakistan has managed against the Aussies is 235. On a dilatory and debased aboveground astatine the R. Premadasa Stadium here, Fatima Sana and Co. volition not kick if they negociate that people again.
Much volition thrust connected the persistence and patience of in-form batter Sidra Amin, whose valiant 106-ball 81 gave her squad an extracurricular accidental against India.
But the spectacular illness against Bangladesh gives Australia the blueprint, peculiarly nether consistently overcast conditions, to usage explicit gait aboriginal connected to rattle the line-up.
Pakistan knows the lone mode to support itself successful the crippled would beryllium to play retired of its tegument connected the tract to restrict Australia to a humble score, but Alyssa Healy’s broadside has the batting extent to debar hopeless situations and extremity its Colombo sojourn with 2 much points successful the bag.
