Australia defeated Pakistan by 13 runs in the second T20 match as well and eliminated them from the race to win the series.
In the second T20 match between Pakistan and Australia in Sydney, the host Australia defeated Pakistan by 13 runs and in pursuit of the target of 148 runs, the Pakistan team was bowled out for 134 runs in 19.4 overs.
Pakistan team needed 16 runs to win in the last over, which could not be done, Mohammad Irfan Khan remained unbeaten with 37 runs.
From Pakistan, Usman Khan scored only 52 runs and after Muhammad Rizwan 16 runs, no player could score in double digits, four players returned to the pavilion for zero.
Australia’s spinner Johnson took 5 wickets against Pakistan by giving only 26 runs today with Adam Zampa taking 2 wickets and Xavier Bartlett taking 1 wicket.
Australia won the toss and decided to bat against Pakistan.
Australia scored 147 runs for 9 wickets in the allotted overs and set Pakistan a target of 148 runs to win.
Australia started their innings aggressively and Haris Rauf once again showed excellent bowling and Australia’s first and second wicket fell for 52 runs and at that time there was a lot of pressure on Australia and these two wickets were taken by Haris Rauf.
Australia’s third wicket against Pakistan fell for 56 runs and opener Matthew Short scored 32 runs and was dismissed by Abbas Afridi.
Australia’s fourth wicket fell on 86 runs and this wicket was taken by Sufyan Muqim, while Australia’s biggest fifth wicket fell on 95 runs by Glenn Maxwell, who fell victim to Sufyan Muqim by scoring only 21 runs.
Against Pakistan, Australia’s sixth wicket fell on 115 runs and Haris Rauf dismissed Tim David for 18 runs, while the seventh wicket fell on 139 runs and this wicket also fell to Haris Rauf.
Australia’s eighth wicket fell on 146 runs and Erin Hardy scored 28 runs and got out on the ball of Abbas Afridi, while the ninth wicket also fell on 146 runs and was also taken by Abbas Afridi.
On behalf of Pakistan team, Haris Rauf took 4 wickets, Abbas Afridi took 3 wickets and Sufian Moqim took 2 wickets.
Playing XI of Australia team.
Australia’s playing eleven included Matthew Short, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Josh Inglis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Aaron Hardie, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Spencer Johnson, Adam Zampa.
Australia did not make any changes in the team in the second T20 match of the series.
Playing XI of Pakistan team.
Pakistan team
Playing XI includes Mohammad Rizwan (C), Babar Azam, Sahibzada Farhan, Usman Khan, Mohammad Irfan Khan, Abbas Afridi, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufian Muqim, Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah.
A change has been made in the Pakistani team, Sufian Muqim has been included in the team instead of Haseebullah and Sufian Muqim has given a good performance.
Mohammad Rizwan explained the reason for losing the match.
Speaking after the match, Mohammad Rizwan said that we know that Australia is not an easy team, but in today’s match we gave many chances to Australia and because of that the match went out of hand.
Speaking after the match, Pakistan team captain Muhammad Rizwan said that in the T20 series, the Australian team was defeated in two out of three matches, but if you look at the positive side, the boys bowled very well.
It should be remembered that Australia defeated Pakistan in the second T20I match and won the 3-match series by 2-0.
It should be noted that in the first T20 match, Australia defeated Pakistan by 29 runs.
