{"id":54932,"date":"2024-11-04T15:34:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T10:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=54932"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:22:38","slug":"australia-wins-low-scoring-thriller-against-pakistan-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/australia-wins-low-scoring-thriller-against-pakistan-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia wins low-scoring thriller against Pakistan in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Skipper Pat Cummins held his nerves to claim Australia a victory in a low-scoring series opener against Pakistan by two wickets at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing the target of 204, Australia with tw0-wickets in hand managed to surpass the mark in 33.3 overs with Cummins&#8217;s heroic efforts, despite the come-back by Pakistani bowlers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"template__main flow-root px-1 w-full sm:w-2\/3 mx-auto md:min-w-183\">\n<div class=\"story__content overflow-hidden text-4 sm:text-4.5 pt-1 mt-1\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Josh Inglis made 49 for the Aussies, while Haris Rauf took three wickets as the green shirts fought back.<\/p>\n<p>Newly appointed skipper Mohammad Rizwan top-scored with 44 for the visitors but they struggled against some precision bowling, all out in the 47th over.<\/p>\n<p>Starc broke through in the third over with Saim Ayub chopping onto his stumps, mistiming a rising ball before a subdued crowd at the cavernous MCG. That brought Babar Azam to the crease, unburdened by the captaincy after quitting last month.<\/p>\n<p>He upped the tempo before Starc struck again, with Abdullah Shafique caught behind for a tame 12 in a superb opening spell from the speedster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The pacers give it their all in a hard-fought contest at the MCG!<\/p>\n<p>Australia win the first ODI by two wickets <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUSvPAK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUSvPAK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/33tlPGH7Ap\">pic.twitter.com\/33tlPGH7Ap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1853386013428642005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Azam was in decent touch and put on 39 with Rizwan before spinner Adam Zampa entered the fray and broke the partnership, bowling Azam for 37 with his fourth delivery.<\/p>\n<p>His replacement Kamran Ghulam lasted just six balls, no match for a brutal Cummins bouncer, gloving to wicketkeeper Inglis to leave Pakistan struggling on 70-4 after 19 overs.<\/p>\n<p>A patient Rizwan played himself in before opening the bat, hitting the first six of the day off Starc. But the wickets kept falling.<\/p>\n<p>Salman Agha was smartly taken at square leg for 12 by Matt Short off Sean Abbott and Rizwan then departed attempting a sweep from part-time spinner Marnus Labuschagne, caught by Inglis.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen Shah Afridi hit an entertaining 24, but Starc again struck, rattling his middle stump, before a flurry from the tailenders pushed Pakistan beyond 200.<\/p>\n<p>Naseem Shah, coming in at nine, added 40, an innings that included four sixes, with 20 taken off one Zampa over.<\/p>\n<p>Australia skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bowl in the first of a three-match one-day series.<\/p>\n<p>With Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head on paternity leave, world champions Australia have a new-look opening partnership with Jake Fraser-McGurk and Matt Short.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Josh Hazlewood was rested with Sean Abbott joining Cummins and Mitchell Starc in the hosts\u2019 pace attack on an overcast day.<\/p>\n<p>In Pakistan\u2019s first 50-over game since\u00a0last year\u2019s\u00a0World Cup, Mohammad Rizwan\u00a0captains\u00a0the side after Babar Azam\u00a0stepped down\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media w-full w-full media--stretch media--embed media--uneven media--tweet\">\n<div class=\"media__item media__item--twitter \"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Irfan Khan made his one-day international debut in the middle order while Shaheen Shah Afridi spearheads a four-strong fast-bowling attack.<\/p>\n<h2>Playing XIs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Australia:<\/strong>\u00a0Matt Short, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Steve Smith, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Pat Cummins (capt), Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan:<\/strong> Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan (capt), Kamran Ghulam, Agha Salman, Irfan Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Skipper Pat Cummins held his nerves to claim Australia a victory in a low-scoring series opener against Pakistan by two wickets at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Monday. Chasing the target of 204, Australia with tw0-wickets in hand managed to surpass the mark in 33.3 overs with Cummins&#8217;s heroic efforts, despite the come-back by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":54924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,6],"tags":[1315,2363,23649],"class_list":["post-54932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-pakistan-cricket","tag-pakistan-vs-australia","tag-pak-vs-aus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54949,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54932\/revisions\/54949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}