BENGALURU – Australia rode on punishing centuries from openers David Warner and Mitchell Marsh to beat Pakistan by 62 runs of their World Cup sport in Bengaluru on Friday.
Australia’s whole of 367-9 was constructed on Warner’s 163 with Marsh, on his 32nd birthday, hitting 121. Pakistan have been unfinished by poor bowling and subjecting which noticed Warner dropped when he had made simply 10. Leg-spinner Adam Zampa then ripped by the middle-order with figures of 4-53 as Pakistan have been bowled out for 305 in 45.Three overs, leaving each groups on two wins and as many losses.
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 12 months — by Imam-ul-Haq (70) and Abdullah Shafique (64).
Australia dropped Shafique with substitute Sean Abbott spilling a easy probability 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 withwithin the area 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 whole. Warner survived a leg-before attraction 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 have 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 file 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 retwine 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 subject.
Australia smashed 82 within the first power-play and accomplished 200 runs within the 30th over.
Warner accomplished his second World Cup century — and 21st total — with a single off spinner Mohammad Nawaz off 85 balls whereas Marsh reached his second ODI hundred with a six in the identical over, taking 100 balls. Sarcastically, it was Mir who caught Marsh off Shaheen to interrupt the stand within the 34th over.
Glenn Maxwell, despatched in at three to maintain up the momentum, fell first ball, caught by Babar Azam off Shaheen whereas Steve Smith was caught and bowled by Mir for seven. Conflictner continued the carnage with three extra sixes earlier than falling to Rauf, holing out at long-on. Shaheen, who completed with 5-54, helped Pakistan come again within the final ten overs with six wickets falling for 70 runs. Rauf took 3-83. Pakistan subsequent face Afghanistan in Chennai on Monday whereas Australia’s subsequent opponents are the Netherlands in New Delhi two days later.