Australia beat pakistan in 3rd T 20 of series,2009

Australia was scheduled to play a 7 Match T 20 International series in United Arab Emirates in 2009. The 3rd T 20 international match was to be played on Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, Dubai. Australia holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well and have also trying to take the lead in this series.

Australia won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Australia team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd T 20 international match: Andrew Symonds, Michael Clarke (c), Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk),Nathan Hauritz, James Hopes, Stuart Clark, Nathan Bracken, Ben Hilfenhaus, Shaun Marsh, Callum Ferguson

And Pakistan team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd T 20 international Match: Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan (c), Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Misbah ul Haq, Iftikhar Anjum, A Shehzad, Saeed Ajmal, Nasir Jamshed

Australia batted well and was able to post total of 165 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of S Marsh who made 55 runs in 50 balls with 6 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 110 runs in 100 balls and B Haddin who made 40 runs in 40 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 166 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well but was unable to chase the target of 166 runs and was only able to make 160 in 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and lost the game by 5 runs and with top contributions from K Akmal who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 4 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 5 runs and series stands at 2-1 in favor of Australia with 4 more games to play in this series and this lead means a lot as Australia was earlier trailing the series 0-1.

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