Pakistan beat Australia by 16 runs in T20 world cup 2014
Pakistan beat Australia by 16 runs in nail biting match on 23rd of March 2014, as cheers for Pakistan because it was National day of Pakistan. Australia won the toss and elected to field and Pakistan put very good total of 195 to win in 20 over. Pakistan getting power from fastest 94 runs of Umer Akmal and some good partnership between akmal brothers.
Match is looking in favor of Pakistan in very first over when Zulfiqar babar bowled out Warner and Watson in his first over. After this Maxwell came and just start hitting all bowlers out of Park. He put 74 runs on just 48 balls with 7 sixers. It was only wicket of Maxwell on Afridi's bowl and match turns the table again it was 50 fifty match till the last over and in Last over Bhatti bowled really well to restrict Australian bestman under the target.
| PAKISTAN innings (20 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ahmed Shehzad | c & b Bollinger | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Kamran Akmal† | c Warner b Coulter-Nile | 31 | 61 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Mohammad Hafeez* | b Watson | 13 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 130.00 |
| Umar Akmal | c Maxwell b Starc | 94 | 70 | 54 | 9 | 4 | 174.07 |
| Sohaib Maqsood | b Coulter-Nile | 5 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 71.42 |
| Shahid Afridi | not out | 20 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 181.81 | |
| Shoaib Malik | not out | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 3, w 9, nb 1) | 17 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 20 overs) | 191 | (9.55 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Starc | 4 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 8.75 | (1w) |
| DE Bollinger | 4 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 7.00 | |
| SR Watson | 4 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 9.50 | (1nb) |
| NM Coulter-Nile | 4 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 9.00 | (1w) |
| GB Hogg | 3 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 9.66 | (1w) | |
| AJ Finch | 1 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 18.00 |
| AUSTRALIA innings (target: 192 runs from 20 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DA Warner | b Zulfiqar Babar | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 |
| AJ Finch | b Saeed Ajmal | 65 | 79 | 54 | 7 | 2 | 120.37 |
| SR Watson | c †Kamran Akmal b Zulfiqar Babar | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 |
| GJ Maxwell | c Ahmed Shehzad b Shahid Afridi | 74 | 48 | 33 | 7 | 6 | 224.24 |
| GJ Bailey* | b Shahid Afridi | 4 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 |
| BJ Hodge | c Saeed Ajmal b Umar Gul | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 |
| BJ Haddin† | c Shoaib Malik b Bilawal Bhatti | 8 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| NM Coulter-Nile | b Umar Gul | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| MA Starc | run out (†Kamran Akmal/Shahid Afridi) | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 150.00 |
| GB Hogg | b Bilawal Bhatti | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| DE Bollinger | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (lb 3, nb 5) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 20 overs) | 175 | (8.75 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zulfiqar Babar | 4 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 6.50 | |
| Mohammad Hafeez | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 9.00 | ||
| Umar Gul | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 7.25 | |
| Saeed Ajmal | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 8.25 | |
| Shahid Afridi | 4 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 7.50 | |
| Bilawal Bhatti | 2 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 18.00 | (1nb) |