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Pakistan To Meet India In Twenty20 Warm Up Today

OVAL: Pakistan will take on India in Twenty20 warm up match today. This would be the first encounter between the two teams after Mumbai attacks.
The money collected from today’s match will be given to the affectees of attack on Sri Lankan team in Lahore.
Pakistan and India both faced defeat in their respective warm up openers. South Africa beat Pakistan while New Zealand defeated India. Both teams met in Twenty20 World Cup final two years back.
Pakistan team manager Yawer Saeed said green shirts would face India with full strength without giving rest to any key player.

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Pakistan Won By 7 Wickets – Cricket

Umar Gul

DUBAI: Pakistan cricket team thrashed Australia by seven wickets with 22 balls to spare in the one-off Twenty20 international at Dubai Stadium here on Thursday, Geo news reported.
Paceman Umar Gul recorded the second best figures in international Twenty20 cricket to help fire Pakistan to a seven-wicket win over Australia in the one-off match at Dubai Stadium here on Thursday.
The 25-year-old fast bowler took 4-8 in his four-over spell, combining with leg-spinner Shahid Afridi (3-14) to restrict Australia to a modest 108 in 19.5 overs after Misbah-ul-Haq won the toss and fielded.
In Pakistan’s reply, Kamran Akmal hit a rapid-fire unbeaten 59 while Haq scored 24.
They shared an 85-run stand for the third wicket after Pakistan lost openers Ahmed Shahzad (four) and Salman Butt (16).
Akmal’s maiden Twenty20 fifty included five boundaries and three towering sixes off 42 balls and enabled Pakistan to reach their target with 3.4 overs to spare.
Earlier, Gul provided Pakistan with a crucial breakthrough, dismissing the dangerous-looking Shane Watson (33) with his first delivery to put the brakes on Australia, who had reached 42 without loss.
Watson had struck three successive boundaries off paceman Sohail Tanvir in the fourth over. Australia then suffered a severe jolt when four wickets fell for 12 runs in the space of 21 deliveries to leave them in trouble at 73-5.
Afridi trapped James Hopes (six) and Andrew Symonds (nought) leg-before off successive deliveries, before bowling David Hussey (four).
Gul returned for his second spell to dismiss Nathan Hauritz (two), Brett Lee (nought) and Marcus North (20) to improve on his own Pakistan record of 4-13 in a Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka last year.
They were the second best figures ever in a Twenty20 international, behind New Zealand paceman Mark Gillespie’s 4-7 against Kenya at Durban in 2007.
Brad Haddin made 24 before becoming one of Shoaib Malik’s two victims. Pakistan were forced to leave out regular captain Younus Khan, who was suffering from a fever.
Australia won the preceding five-match one-day series 3-2 — a series moved to neutral venues here over security fears in Pakistan.

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Pakistan Defeated Australia – Afridi Rocked

Shahid Afradi

A team desperate to erase painful recent memories immediately settled in at their new, adopted venue, with a four-wicket win against a struggling Australian side in Dubai. The devastation caused by Shahid Afridi’s career-best 6 for 38 had all but shut Australia out of the match before the halfway stage of their innings. A late recovery pushed them to 168 but it wasn’t enough to seriously challenge an unpredictable Pakistan outfit. Pakistan stuttered, rebuilt, stumbled again and a late push by Afridi, contributing an adrenalin-filled yet brief 24, pushed them towards a win.
The ultimate difference between the two sides was spin. While Pakistan’s pair of Afridi and Ajmal shared eight wickets, Australia’s Nathan Hauritz bowled four overs and failed to pick up a wicket. It wouldn’t be fair to blame Australia’s lone specialist spinner for the defeat. It was a collective failure of their middle order to read the spinners who mercilessly ran through the batting and effected a top and middle-order crumbling to the tune of 8 for 27.
Australia’s rapid demise was a reflection of their ordinary recent one-day form. A collapse of this magnitude exposed a weakness against spin which was also on show in South Africa, even with a number of familiar returning faces in the ranks. With the ball gripping and turning, Afridi’s mixture of googlies and topspinners caused most of the problems, but the relatively inexperienced Ajmal offered little respite with his doosras.

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Pakistan-Australia Cricket Series Starting Today

Much awaited Pakistan-Australia ODI Cricket series is starting today in Dubai at Dubai Sports City Stadium, a new Stadium with 25,000 capacity. Both teams have not played ODIs against each other since February 2005, however they met in twenty-twenty world cup played in South Africa two year ago. Both teams will be played one twenty 20 match as well in the series. Both the teams will be trying to win this series and improve their ICC rating. Pakistan cricket team led by Captain Yunis Khan is very positive in giving Australian team a hard time and winning this series. Australian team is being led by Michael Clarke without regular captain Ricky Ponting.

High security measures are taken to make this series a success, after recent attack on Sri-Lankan Cricket Team.

Pakistan Vs Australia In UAE

LAHORE: A 15-member squad of Pakistan cricket team has departed for Abu Dhabi from Allama Iqbal International airport here early on Monday morning, Geo news reported.
The Pakistan team is scheduled to play five ODIs and one Twenty20 matches against world champions Australia at two venues Abu Dhabi and Dubai, according to sources.
The team was led by skipper Younis Khan while Pakistan’s A cricket team was also accompanied by national players as two teams are scheduled to play a practice match on March 15 in Abu Dhabi two days earlier the commencement of five match series..
Talking to media before departure, Coach national team Intikhab Alam said, “Boys have had tough training sessions” and hoped cricket team to shine brilliantly against the world champs.

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