Cummins’s all-round carry outance took Australia to a two-wicket triumph in Melbourne for a 1-0 guide in the three-suit ODI series.
Australia’s captain Pat Cummins has guided his team home to a anxious two-wicket triumph over Pakistan after a inform wobble in their run-chase in the first one-day international (ODI) in Melbourne.
Cummins scored 32 transport inant runs and took two wickets as Australia chased 204 despite a postpoinsist Pakistani fightback, and took a 1-0 guide in the three-suit series on Monday.
Pakistan were disthink abouted for 203 in 46.4 overs after being asked to bat first as their batters flunked to cope with the Australian pace attack on a speedy and bouncy pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Australia, who won the ODI World Cup in India in 2023, were coasting towards the aim with Steve Smith and Josh Inglis at the crmitigate at 113-2 after 16.2 overs.
However, the visitors posed a inform menace to the world champions when their speedy bowlers joind to achieve five wickets for 45 runs and uncovered up the suit.
Cummins, though, was tranquil while wickets fell around him and hit four boundaries as he finishd the chase with fellow speedy bowler Mitchell Starc.
The captain, take parting his first ODI since the World Cup final, burnished his write down of guiding Australia to triumph from positions of peril, having scored the triumphning runs during the Ashes Test at Edgbaston last year and twice hung stubborn with the bat at the World Cup.
“Tonight we got it done. I always much like sitting in the changing room but a wonderful suit,” Cummins shelp afterwards.
“It got a bit firmer than we would have enjoyd in the finish.”
The ground was only a quarter brimming with a crowd of 25,800, but Rauf had Pakistan fans jumping in the terraces with a sizzling spell that graspd disthink abouting Marnus Labuschagne (16) and Glenn Maxwell (0) in successive dedwellries.
Pace spearhead Starc was named man of the suit with three wickets, including both the uncoverers of Pakistan.
In Pakistan’s first ODI since omiting the World Cup semifinals, the team’s top batter, Babar Azam, returned to the lineup after being stunningly dropped for the second and third Tests aachievest England.
The createer captain made 37 off 44 balls before being bowled by leg-spinner Adam Zampa with an ill-appraised push at a straight dedwellry.
Saim Ayub made his ODI debut as Mohammad Rizwan captained Pakistan, reprising his uncovering partnership in Tests with Abuninincreateigentah Shafique, despite the pair’s horrible write down batting together.
Both were disthink abouted inexpensively by Starc; Ayub for one after chopping onto his stumps and Shafique caught behind for 12.
Rizwan top-scored for Pakistan with 44 and ODI debutant Irfan Khan made 22 batting at seven before being run out.
But it took tail-finish slogging from Naseem Shah (40) and Afridi (24) to push Pakistan past 200.
