Australia rode on punishing centuries from openers David Warner and Mitchell Marsh to beat Pakistan by 62 runs of their World Cup recreation in Bengaluru on Friday. Australia’s complete of 367-9 was constructed on Warner’s 163 with Marsh, on his 32nd birthday, hitting 121. Pakistan had been undone by poor bowling and fielding which noticed Warner dropped when he had made simply 10. Leg-spinner Adam Zampa then ripped via the middle-order with figures of 4-53 as Pakistan had been bowled out for 305 in 45.three overs, leaving each groups on two wins and as many losses.
The win on Friday helped Australia exchange Pakistan on the fourth spot within the factors desk. In the meantime, the Babar Azam-led aspect slipped to the fifth spot.
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Mohammad Rizwan (46) and Saud Shakeel (30) added 57 for the fourth wicket as Pakistan wanted 168 from the final 20 overs however Pat Cummins dismissed Saud Shakeel whereas Zampa accounted for Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed (26) and Mohammad Nawaz (14) to finish their resistance.
Pakistan got a stable begin of 134 — solely their second hundred opening stand this yr — by Imam-ul-Haq (70) and Abdullah Shafique (64).
Australia dropped Shafique with substitute Sean Abbott spilling a easy likelihood over the boundary off Cummins when the opener had made 27 whereas the skipper then dropped Imam off Zampa when the batsman was on 48.
However Marcus Stoinis’s short-pitched deliveries claimed each the openers inside the house of 20 runs whereas Cummins pulled off a splendid catch at mid-wicket off Adam Zampa to dismiss opposing captain Babar Azam for 18.
Earlier, Warner and Marsh arrange Australia’s imposing complete.
Warner survived a leg-before enchantment off the very first ball of the match and was then dropped on 10 within the fifth over, earlier than cracking a punishing 124-ball 163 after Australia had been despatched in to bat on a flat Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch.
Marsh clobbered a 108-ball 121 because the pair raced to an Australian World Cup opening stand document of 259 by the 34th over, a lot to the delight of a 30,000 crowd.
Warner’s innings had 14 boundaries and 9 towering sixes as he and Marsh spared not one of the Pakistan bowlers. Marsh’s knock was spiced with ten boundaries and 9 sixes.
Their stand — simply 23 in need of the World Cup opening document of 282 by Sri Lanka’s Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan towards Zimbabwe at Pallekele in 2011 — was helped by a weak efficiency by Pakistan within the area.
(With AFP Inputs)
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