My favorite Incidents in cricket ***Vol. 10 ****

This is the 10th Episode of the series of my favorite incidents of Cricket. It was a cricket match played between very two greats of cricket, Australia and Pakistan, This match is played on 15th Jan, 2017 at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia. Australia won the toss and decided to bat first. Steve smith is the captain and Mathew wade is the Wicket keeper, the Australian 11 looks like this Matthew Wade (wk), David Warner, Steven Smith (c), Mitchell Marsh, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Chris Lynn,James Faulkner, Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Adam Zampa, Billy Stanlake

And Pakistan 11 looks like Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Hafeez (c), Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir, Umar Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Junaid Khan, Rahat Ali, Babar Azam,Mohammad Nawaz, Sharjeel Khan, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Imad Wasim,Hasan Ali

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To everyone’s surprise Pakistan bowled very well and Australia were bowled out for 220 only in 48.2 over’s with Steve smith the highest scorer with 60 runs in 101 balls with only 2 fours and Mathew wade was the second top scorer with 35 runs in 56 balls and 3 fours. Target of 221 to Pakistan was not enough. In the reply Pakistan was off to a very great start and they keep playing good cricket with Mohammed hafeez making 72 runs in 104 balls with 8 fours at the strike rate of 69 and Babar azam made 34 runs of 49 balls with 5 fours at the strike rate of 69 and shoaib malik finished the game for Pakistan by making 42 runs of 52 balls with 5 fours and 1 six at the strike rate of 81 and umar akmal 18 runs of 20 balls with 3 fours at the strike rate of 90 and in that way Pakistan won the match by 6 wickets and tied the series with the 1-1 with 3 more games to play. Mohammed Hafeez was the man of the match for his all round performance.