Australia vs Pakistan LIVE: World Cup result and reason as David Warner and Adam Zampa star in 62-run win
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Australia beat Pakistan by 62 runs in a high-scoring World Cup group game on Friday to get their campaign back on track with a second straight win thanks to centuries from their opening pair of David Warner and Mitchell Marsh.
Pakistan won the toss and put Australia in to bat but skipper Babar Azam’s hopes of taking early wickets quickly evaporated when Warner (163) and Marsh (121) went all guns blazing to put on a 259-run stand.
But the rest of Australia’s batting order collapsed with the last six wickets falling for 38 runs while Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi finished with 5-54.
In response, Pakistan’s Abdullah Shafique (64) and Imam-ul-Haq (70) laid the platform for the chase with a 134-run opening partnership but the rest of the top order failed to build on promising starts as they were bundled out for 305.
Spinner Adam Zampa was the pick of the Australia bowlers as he cleaned up the middle order to finish with figures of 4-53 to move Australia up to fourth -- level with fifth-placed Pakistan on four points but with a better net run rate.
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OUT! Caught. Pat Cummins to Shaheen Afridi. Off cutter back of a length, down leg side down the track Slog, mis-timed in the air uncontrolled to deep mid wicket, caught by Labuschagne.
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FOUR! Pat Cummins to Shaheen Afridi. Short, down leg side on the back foot pulling, well timed in the air under control past deep mid wicket for 4 runs.
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Pat Cummins to Shaheen Afridi. Off cutter length ball, down leg side on the front foot Slog, missed for no runs, fielded by Inglis.
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Mitchell Starc to Haris Rauf. Length ball, outside off stump on the back foot working, to short mid wicket for no runs, fielded by Stoinis.
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OUT! Caught. Mitchell Starc to Hasan Ali. Back of a length, outside off stump moves in front pulling, mis-timed, caught by Inglis. Nine down for Pakistan.
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FOUR! Mitchell Starc to Hasan Ali. Full toss, outside off stump backing away driving, thick edge past third man for 4 runs.
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Mitchell Starc to Hasan Ali. Short, outside off stump ducked Leave, Left for no runs, fielded by Inglis.
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Mitchell Starc to Shaheen Afridi. Short, outside off stump on the back foot pulling, mis-timed in the air uncontrolled to deep mid wicket for 1 run.
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