Pakistan beat Australia by 16 runs in T20 world cup 2014

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)

Did not batBilawal Bhatti, Umar Gul, Zulfiqar Babar, Saeed Ajmal

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Fall of wickets 1-7 (Ahmed Shehzad, 1.4 ov), 2-25 (Mohammad Hafeez, 4.2 ov), 3-121 (Kamran Akmal, 12.5 ov), 4-147 (Sohaib Maqsood, 15.5 ov), 5-180 (Umar Akmal, 19.1 ov)

	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)

Fall of wickets 1-4 (Warner, 0.2 ov), 2-8 (Watson, 0.6 ov), 3-126 (Maxwell, 11.4 ov), 4-146 (Bailey, 15.1 ov), 5-155 (Hodge, 16.3 ov), 6-162 (Finch, 17.4 ov), 7-163 (Coulter-Nile, 18.2 ov), 8-172 (Starc, 19.2 ov), 9-173 (Haddin, 19.4 ov), 10-175 (Hogg, 19.6 ov)

	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)

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