Recent Match
Pakistan tour of Australia, 2024, 1st ODI, Melbourne, Nov 4th, 2024

Pakistan

(46.4 ov) 203/10

Australia

(33.3 ov) 204/8

Complete Australia won by 2 wkts

Player of Match: Mitchell Starc

1.5
Cummins to Shafique, no run, short of length and on the off stump, Shafique defends nicely off the back foot
1.4
Cummins to Shafique, no run
1.3
Cummins to Shafique, 2 runs, lovely square punch-drive. Not too wide of Marnus at cover-point, Maxi gives chase and hunts it down
1.2
Cummins to Shafique, no run, nip-backer thudding Shafique on the back foot defence off the inside edge as Cummins bowls back of a length
1.1
Cummins to Saim Ayub, 1 run, edge rolls between second slip and gully and Saim Ayub is away in ODI cricket!
Pat Cummins, right-arm fast, comes into the attack
So a tinge of green grass on the pitch and some swing on offer
0.6
Mitchell Starc to Shafique, no run, and again, this time Shafique tries to place it towards mid-off for a quick single but Mitchell Starc dives to the left and stops to start with a maiden over!
0.5
Mitchell Starc to Shafique, no run, aiming for LBW with this length delivery was Starc, Shafique nicely covers the line and defends
0.4
Mitchell Starc to Shafique, no run
0.3
Mitchell Starc to Shafique, no run, and Mitchell Starc goes for the killer inswinging yorker, just gets it wide of off and beats Shafique as the batter tries to defend
0.2
Mitchell Starc to Shafique, no run
0.1
Mitchell Starc to Shafique, no run
Shafique and Saim Ayub are at the crease. Shafique is on strike. Mitchell Starc will open the attack
Out come the players. Saim Ayub and Irfan Khan making their ODI debuts and they received their caps from the legendary Wasim Akram
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Teams:
Pakistan (Playing XI): Abdullah Shafique, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan(w/c), Kamran Ghulam, Agha Salman, Irfan Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain
Australia (Playing XI): Matthew Short, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Steven Smith, Josh Inglis(w), Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Aaron Hardie, Pat Cummins(c), Sean Abbott, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa
Australia have won the toss and have opted to field