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Josh Inglis (captain, Australia): Really nice, the boys conducted themselves really and they did a great job for this win. There has been a lot of noise in the last week, a good win to go one up and head into Sydney. The bowlers were great tonight. Xavier and Spencer have played a lot of cricket and they nailed the execution of whatever they planned to do
Mohammad Rizwan (captain, Pakistan): You can't say anything about the game, it was very fast paced. You want to keep things normal but you can't. The bowlers did very well, the batters gave their best. We can sit together and discuss about the game in SCG
Glenn Maxwell (Player of the Match, 43 runs off 19 balls): It was great fun out there! There was a little bit of tack in the wicket, but I love batting at the Gabba in international cricket. It was a pretty mad rush to get the game going, but it felt good to be out there and playing.
Nathan Ellis: It feels like I played a 40-over game there, I'm so cooked! I'm so happy though to be out here and happy to get a game. I had that UK series pinned in my calendar, so missing it was disappointing, therefore, getting to play again is tremendous! My watch is somewhat like a superstition, but not quite something I seat upon really!
9:50 pm local time, 5:20 pm IST: Australia beat Pakistan by 29 runs, take a 1-0 lead in the three-match T20I series
The chase looked out of control for Pakistan throughout and now they have been pegged back in the series. Rizwan and co. will want to move on as soon as possible, with hopes that the weather and cricket gods favour them in the next couple of T20Is
Rizwan and Sahibzada Farhan walked out to the middle to open the batting but the pair were broken soon after Farhan was dismissed after playing a few eye-catching strokes. Rizwan was the next one to fall and following him in a procession were Usman Khan, Babar Azam, Agha Salman and Irfan Khan, slipping down to 24/6.
Haseebullah Khan and Abbas Afridi added some firepower with the bat in hand but it was a case a little too late by the time their hits came cleanly. In the end, it was too much for the visitors to chase as they lost nine wickets in total and fell short by quite a margin.
It was a fine effort from the hosts to contain the opposition batters. Nathan Ellis and Xavier Bartlett starred with the ball in hand, picking up three wickets each. Adam Zampa bowled a solitary over, the last one of the match, and managed to send back two of the lower-order batters. Spencer Johnson, although expensive, managed to pick up a wicket as well.
7
overs
64/9score
1
2
6
2
W
W
runs
Naseem Shah*
0(1)
Abbas Afridi
20(10)
Adam Zampa
2/11
6.6 Adam Zampa to Naseem Shah, ZAMPA TAKES TWO! AUSTRALIA WIN AT A CANTER! Good length flatter wrong 'un on off-and-middle. Naseem went for the whack over wide mid-on off the back foot and missed it. The ball then cannoned into the stumps to clean them up!
Naseem Shah b Adam Zampa 0 (1b, 0x4, 0x6)
Naseem Shah, RHB, walks out to the middle and will face the last ball of the match
6.5 Adam Zampa to Shaheen Afridi, STUMPED! Flatter and straighter. Shaheen stepped out and slogged again. But he missed this totally. Josh Inglis collected and whipped the bails off in a flash to find the batter well short!
6.4 Adam Zampa to Shaheen Afridi, back of a length flatter ball round off-stump. Bunted around to deep mid-wicket from the back foot for a brace again.
6.3 Adam Zampa to Shaheen Afridi, SIX RUNS! Flighted delivery on middle-and-off. Shaheen went down on one knee and slogged it over deep mid-wicket for a maximum!
6.2 Adam Zampa to Shaheen Afridi, good length ball sliding outside off. Sliced away off the back foot over point for a couple of runs.
6.1 Adam Zampa to Abbas Afridi, over the wicket, full on off-stump. Drilled down to long-on off the front foot for a single.
One over to go and both Afridi's in the middle will be having a free hit for the next six deliveries. Adam Zampa, right arm leg break, comes into the attack and will be bowling the last over
6
overs
53/7score
0
W
0
1
4
1lb
runs
Abbas Afridi*
19(9)
Shaheen Afridi
1(2)
Nathan Ellis
3/9
5.6 Nathan Ellis to Abbas Afridi, full and slow on the pads. A miss of the clip to the square-leg area but the batters collect a leg-bye.
5.5 Nathan Ellis to Abbas Afridi, FOUR MORE! Length ball on off-stump. Pumped away from deep in the crease over the in-field to the right of long-off!
5.4 Nathan Ellis to Shaheen Afridi, full toss on off-and-middle. Bunted down to long-on from deep in the crease for just the single!
5.3 Nathan Ellis to Shaheen Afridi, short over middle-and-leg now. Shaheen tried to swat it away over the square-leg area off the back foot but it was just too high to connect!