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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Shaheen Afridi to David Warner. Out-swinging length ball, outside off stump on the back foot Steer, to third man for 1 run, fielded by Ali.
Pakistan use early review
Pakistan waste a review first ball of the innings with DRS showing Warner hit the ball before it crashed into the pad, and it might also have been high and missing leg.
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Shaheen Afridi to David Warner. Out-swinging length ball, outside off stump on the front foot defending, missed for no runs, fielded by Rizwan.
Team news as Pakistan win toss and choose to field
Josh Inglis and Marcus Stoinis have kept their place in the Australia XI, while Cameron Green is the 12th man and Alex Carey has been left out.
Australia have stuck with the changes they made ahead of the Sri Lanka match, which remains their only win of the tournament so far.
While for Pakistan there is no place for Fakhar Zaman, who was ruled out with injury.
Australia XI: Marsh, Warner, Smith, Labuschagne, Inglis, Maxwell, Stoinis, Starc, Cummins, Zampa, Hazlewood
Pakistan XI: Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar, Rizwan, Shakeel, Iftikhar, Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Rauf, Mir
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The ICC Test Championship sees nine teams compete across a two-year cycle of matches before a two-team final decides the winner. The inaugural competition was won by New Zealand after a thrilling victory over India in June 2021.
The 50-over World Cup is far older and has been competed for since back in 1975. Australia are the record winners having run out victorious on five occasions (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015). England took the 2019 crown after a dramatic Ben Stokes-inspired super-over win over New Zealand at Lord's.
The shortest form of the game sees teams compete in Twenty20. The newest format has been an instant global hit with a number of hugely-lucrative competitions massively popular all over the world. Australia are reigning world champions having taken victory in the 2021 tournament.
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