australia vs pakistan
Australia is currently the world champion. Last year, Australia became world champion by defeating India in the final of ICC ODI World Cup 2023. A year after winning this title, the Australian team is playing its first ODI series against Pakistan. In this 3-match series, the first match was won by host Australia by 2 wickets. Thanks to captain Pat Cummins’ inning of 32 runs, Australia snatched victory from the jaws of Pakistan. In the first match, Pakistan had a great chance to register victory but the team failed to make the result of the match in its favor.
Taking a lesson from the defeat of the first match, Pakistan’s bowlers bowled brilliantly during the second ODI at Adelaide Oval and bowled out Australia for 163 runs in just 35 overs. The maximum runs for Australia came from the bat of Steve Smith. Facing 48 balls, Smith played an inning of 35 runs with the help of 5 fours and 1 six. Apart from him, no other batsman could even touch the 20 run mark. In this way, a very shameful record was registered in the name of Australia.
Australia had to see a shameful day
In fact, in this ODI match, not a single batsman from Australia could reach the half-century mark i.e. 50 runs. This is the sixth time in the history of Australia’s ODI cricket that not a single batsman from Australia could score a half-century in an ODI match. Last year, this was seen from Australia in two consecutive matches in the ODI World Cup. Australia had such a bad situation against India in its very first match of this tournament. After this, the Kangaroo team had to see a bad day in the very next match against South Africa.
When Australian players could not score a single half-century in an ODI match
- against New Zealand in 1981
- against England in 2013
- against pakistan in 2022
- Against India and South Africa in the World Cup in 2023 (back to back matches)
- against pakistan in 2024
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