Australia beat pakistan in 2nd ODI of series,2010

Pakistan was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International in Australia in 2010. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 1 and 5. The 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia on 24^th Jan 2010. Australia holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Pakistan won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd ONE DAY international match: Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Yousuf (c), Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, Saeed Ajmal, Naved ul Hasan, Mohammad Amir, Umar Akmal

And Australia team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd ONE DAY international Match: Ricky Ponting (c), Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Nathan Hauritz, Cameron White, Doug Bollinger, Shaun Marsh, Peter Siddle, Clint McKay, Michael Hussey

Australia batted well and was able to post total of 267 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and with top scores of S Watson who made 69 runs in 71 balls with 9 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 98 runs in 100 balls and C White who made 55 runs in 58 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 95 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 268 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well but was unable to chase the target of 268 and was able to make only 127 runs in 37.3 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 140 runs with top contributions from M Yusuf who made 58 runs in 94 balls with 3 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 62 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 140 runs and series stands at 2-0 in favor of Australia with 5 more games to play.

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