Australia defeated Pakistan in the third T20 and why didn’t captain Mohammad Rizwan play the third T20?

Australia defeated Pakistan in the third T20 and why didn't captain Mohammad Rizwan play the third T20?
Australia defeated Pakistan in the third T20 and why didn’t captain Mohammad Rizwan play the third T20?

Australia defeated Pakistan in the third T20 and why didn’t captain Mohammad Rizwan play the third T20? The reason came out.

In the third T20 between Australia and Pakistan, Pakistan lost badly, first we tell you about the poor match and then later we talk about why captain Mohammad Rizwan didn’t play the third T20 and also the reason.

In the third T20 match, Pakistan has won the toss and decided to bat against Australia and team captain Mohammad Rizwan was not included in the last T20.

Playing XI of Pakistan team.

As we told you earlier that Pakistan cricket team captain Muhammad Rizwan has been rested in the last T20 and in his place Salman Ali Agha was captaining the team and Haseebullah was performing the responsibility of wicket keeper.

Salman Ali Agha, Sahibzada Farhan, Babar Azam, Haseebullah, Usman Khan and Mohammad Irfan, Abbas Afridi, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Jahandad Khan, Haris Rauf and Sufian Muqim were included in the playing XI of the third T20 match.

In the third T20 match of Pakistan’s batting.

Pakistan batting against Australia in the 3rd 20th match.
Pakistan batting against Australia in the 3rd 20th match.

Pakistan’s first wicket fell for 17 runs when Sahibzada Farhan was dismissed for 9 runs.

Pakistan’s second wicket against Australia fell on 61 and third wicket on 64 runs.

Haseebullah scored 24 runs and Usman Khan returned to the pavilion after scoring only 3 runs.

The fourth wicket of the Pakistan team was captain Salman Ali Agha and he also got out by scoring only 1 run in 9 balls.

Pakistan’s biggest fifth wicket fell on 91 runs in the form of Babar Azam and he was dismissed for 41 runs and with the dismissal of Babar Azam, Australia’s victory was ready.

As soon as Babar Azam got out, Pakistan’s sixth wicket and seventh wicket fell to 92 runs and Irfan Khan got out with 10 runs and Abbas Afridi got out with one run.

Against Australia, Pakistan’s eighth and ninth wickets fell for 116 runs and the last wicket for 117 runs, Shaheen Shah Afridi was out for 12, Jahandad Khan for 5 and Sufian Moqim for one run.

Australia's joy after Pakistan's wickets fell.
Australia’s joy after Pakistan’s wickets fell.

Erin Hardy took 3 wickets from Australia and bowled very well.

Australia’s batting in the third T20I.

In the match played in Hobart, Australia’s first wicket fell for 16 runs and the second wicket for 30 runs and Fraser McGurk was dismissed for 18 runs.

Australia’s third wicket fell for 85 runs against the Pakistan team when Australian captain Josh Ingles was dismissed for 27 runs.

Australia batting against Pakistan.
Australia batting against Pakistan.

Marcus Stoins remained unbeaten on 61 runs and this was his fifth T20I career half-century.

In the match played in Hobart, Australia easily achieved the target of 118 runs against Pakistan for the loss of 3 wickets in the 12th over.

Shaheen Shah Afridi and Jahandad Khan and Abbas Afridi took one wicket each for Pakistan team.

The Player of the Series was Spencer Johnson and the Player of the Match was Marcus Stoinis

After the match, Australia and Pakistan players hug each other.
After the match, Australia and Pakistan players hug each other.

Why didn’t captain Mohammad Rizwan play the third T20?

Speaking to the media in Hobart, Mohammad Rizwan responded to the question of not playing in the third T20 match against Australia and said that as a captain and a leader first you start making sacrifices and I spoke to the management and the players about it.

The captain of the Pakistan team added that every match is important for us, we are testing the future stars, so I thought I am the one to start from.

Why didn't captain Mohammad Rizwan play the third T20?
Why didn’t captain Mohammad Rizwan play the third T20?

Pakistan cricket team captain Muhammad Rizwan said that Haseebullah did not get much chance in the first match, looking at the future planning decided to give chance to Haseebullah.

Mohammad Rizwan also said that if we had taken catches in the T20 match in Sydney, maybe things and the atmosphere would have been different today.

Pakistan team captain Muhammad Rizwan further said that all the players had already been told who will play ODIs and T20Is in Australia and Zimbabwe.

The captain of the Pakistan team said that they hope to play with full strength against South Africa.

In the third T20 match between Pakistan and Australia, Salman Ali Agha replaced Captain Mohammad Rizwan as the captain, while Haseebullah played the role of wicketkeeper.

It should be remembered that in the third match as well, Australia won a decisive 3-0 lead over Pakistan and won the series clean sweep.

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