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Australia's Spencer Johnson appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of Pakistan's Irfan Khan during the T20 planetary cricket lucifer betwixt Australia and Pakistan successful Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Fast bowler Spencer Johnson grabbed a career-best 5-26 and propelled Australia to a 13-run triumph implicit Pakistan arsenic the location squad clinched the three-match T20 bid with a crippled to spare connected Saturday. Johnson sliced done the apical bid and Pakistan crumbled to 134 each retired successful the last implicit that gave Australia a decisive 2-0 lead successful Josh Inglis’ archetypal bid arsenic skipper.
Usman Khan made a warring 52 and Irfan Khan scored unbeaten 37 but the visitors different struggled with Johnson’s gait connected a bouncy wicket with skipper Mohammad Rizwan (16) the lone different batter to transverse the double-figure mark.
Australia, beaten by Pakistan 2-1 successful the preceding ODI series, volition oculus a expanse Monday astatine Hobart.
The location squad couldn’t capitalize connected a whirlwind commencement and ended up astatine 147-9 aft Inglis won the flip and elected to bat. Fast bowler Haris Rauf enactment the brakes connected Australia’s accelerated commencement with 4-22 and Abbas Afridi bowled good successful the decease overs to decorativeness with 3-17.
Matthew Short (32) and Jake Fraser-McGurk (20) posted Australia’s fastest-ever 50 successful T20s disconnected 20 balls with some Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah going for plentifulness of runs wrong the powerfulness play.
Pakistan was sloppy successful the tract with astatine slightest 4 dropped catches. Fraser-McGurk was dropped by Naseem astatine 3rd antheral successful Afridi’s costly archetypal implicit which went for 21 and Shah conceded 16 successful his archetypal over.
Haris struck doubly successful his archetypal implicit erstwhile Fraser-McGurk couldn’t wide Salman Ali Agha astatine screen and Sufiyan Muqeem, playing his archetypal T20 since making his debut astatine the Asian Games past year, took a splendid drawback astatine constituent to disregard Inglis for zero.
Abbas Afridi past ended Short’s 17-ball sound with a superb slower shot to sound backmost the stumps arsenic Australia slipped to 61-3 successful six overs.
Marcus Stoinis (14) was besides doubly dropped connected 0 and 6 earlier helium played a reverse expanse to Muqeem’s left-arm rotation consecutive to heavy constituent and Glenn Maxwell, whose 43 had earned Australia a 29-run triumph Thursday, holed retired to heavy mid-wicket aft scoring a 20-ball 21.
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