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3rd ODI Lahore Jun 4:
T_Aus
🇦🇺 157/10 (42)
J Inglis 65(71)

Shaheen 3-30 potm
Abrar 2-19
Shadab 2-28
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🇵🇰 161/6 (41.5)
Babar Azam 40(84)
Shadab 29(42)*

Kuhnemann 3-38
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PAK won by 4 wickets, series 2-1/3

Arafat (pots)
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Pakistan beat Australia in the ODI series for the 3rd consecutive time.

✅️ In PAK (2022) - Pakistan won 2-1
✅️ In AUS (2024) - Pakistan won 2-1
✅ In PAK (2026) - Pakistan won 2-1

Wasn't as easy of a series as fans think. On extremely spin-friendly pitches, Australia had a quality spin attack.

A good win Alhumdulilah. But the type of pitches used & not giving 5 players a single opportunity was really disappointing.

Shadab & Samad did really well to finish the game off.

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- Babar scored at an average of 42 this series.
"Haha yes, against Australia C team."

Will get hated for this but people need to understand something:

The pitch conditions make more of a difference than the quality of the opposition. We saw every other batsman in IPL hit sixes for fun even against the best bowlers in the world. But do you expect them to do the same against Bangladesh's B team on Mirpur pitches where scoring 120 in 20 overs is often a challenge?

Scoring against this bowling line-up on such a surface was tougher than scoring against Australia's best XI on highways. But in that case, most fans would've been more impressed.

These pitches were a nightmare to bat on. You needed to do really well to be averaging 40+ regardless of the bowling line-up.

Can't discredit it by saying it was just their C team.

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37 runs in 3 innings in this series. Hasn't been able to replicate his T20I form in ODIs yet.

He'll probably be dropped once Fakhar & Saim are available and rightly so.

But I still wouldn't be too quick to judge him. These aren't easy pitches to bat on & he's only played 6 ODIs in his career.

Has scored 3000 runs at 40+ average in List-A cricket. So he deserved the chance that he got. Just couldn't capitalise on it.



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10 overs. 19 runs. 2 wickets. 0 boundaries conceded in his entire spell.

hasn't been appreciated enough this series due to how brilliantly the newcomer, Arafat Minhas has started off.

But what a series he's had. 6 wickets at an average of 16.2 at an economy of 3.2.

The highest ranked Pakistani bowler in ODIs & T20Is. Another player that somehow gets benched when it's time for an ICC event.

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- Drew the Test series vs South Africa.
- Won the ODI series vs South Africa.
- Won the T20I series vs South Africa.
- Won the ODI series vs Sri Lanka.
- Won the Tri-Nation Series vs SL & Zim.
- Won the T20I series vs Australia.
- Won the ODI series vs Australia.

PAKISTAN'S SUCCESSFUL & UNBEATEN HOME SEASON COMES TO AN END. 🇵🇰👏