Australia beat pakistan in 5th ODI of series,2009

Australia was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International series in United Arab Emirates in 2009. 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 3 and 4. The 5th ONE DAY 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 as well.

Australia won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Australia team and 11 was looking like in this 5th ONE DAY 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 5th ONE DAY international Match: Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan (c), Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Misbah ul Haq, Iftikhar Anjum, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Nasir Jamshed

Australia did not batted well and was able to post total of only 198 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of M Clarke who made 66 runs in 93 balls with 8 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls and C Ferguson who made 41 runs in 68 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 60 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 199 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well but was unable to chase the target of 199 runs and was only able to make 171 runs in 47.1 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 27 runs and with top contributions from S Butt who made 48 runs in 77 balls with 7 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 62 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 27 runs and series stands at 3-2 in favor of Australia with 2 more games to play.

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