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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Haris Rauf to Marnus Labuschagne. Off cutter length ball, outside off stump on the front foot Slog, missed to short third man for 1 run, mis-fielded by Rizwan, run save by Ahmed.
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Shaheen Afridi to Pat Cummins. Length ball, off stump on the front foot Slog, to deep mid wicket for 2 runs, fielded by Ali.
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Shaheen Afridi to Marnus Labuschagne. Off cutter length ball, to leg down the track working, hit pad to cover for 1 run, fielded by Ahmed.
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Shaheen Afridi to Marnus Labuschagne. Length ball, outside off stump on the front foot Slog, missed for no runs, fielded by Rizwan.
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Shaheen Afridi to Pat Cummins. Length ball, off stump on the back foot defending, hit pad to cover for 1 run, fielded by Ahmed.
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Shaheen Afridi to Pat Cummins. Half volley, outside off stump on the front foot driving, to short extra cover for no runs, fielded by Ahmed.
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OUT! L.B.W. Shaheen Afridi to Marcus Stoinis. Off cutter length ball, outside off stump moves in front Scoop, hit pad.
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Haris Rauf to Marcus Stoinis. Full toss, outside off stump on the front foot driving, in the air under control to long off for 1 run, fielded by Azam.
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Haris Rauf to Marcus Stoinis. Off cutter back of a length, outside off stump on the back foot pulling, missed for no runs, fielded by Rizwan.
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