10/10Result
2nd ODI (D/N), Australia tour of United Arab Emirates at Dubai, Oct 10 2014
Australia won by 5 wkts (40b rem)
Player of the Match
Glenn Maxwell
Glenn MaxwellAustralia
10/10Result
2nd ODI (D/N), Australia tour of United Arab Emirates at Dubai, Oct 10 2014
Australia won by 5 wkts (40b rem)
Player of the Match
Glenn Maxwell
Glenn MaxwellAustralia

Series has been wrapped but there is plenty more to come from the UAE. Another ODI, then the Test matches. We will be back with all the reports and analysis. Thanks for your comments and feedback. This is Dev Fuloria signing off.. ciao ciao.

"Bowlers did a wonderful job to drag it back after Pakistan's start," Bailey says. "220-230 was a good total on that but a couple of nice partnerships nicely finished it. (Turn) It's something that we are working on and teams are preparing challenging conditions for us, but we are getting better."

"Poor display in the last 25 overs,"Misbah says. "If we had batted normally, we should have put 250, we could have defended it. We can only ask for better display from our side. Scoring 160, 200 against a top quality side, it's difficult to defend. You could say it was an improved performance today.. especially the opening batsmen and Asad Shafiq. The spinners bowled really well. These were the positives for us."

Sarfraz Ahmed gets an award for being the Master Blaster. Mitchell Johnson gets an award for being the best bowler of the match and another award for being the fastest bowler of the match. Ahmed Shehzad gets some dough for the most colourful innings. Glenn Maxwell gets an award for his reverse sweep.. (this is unending).. Davie Warner gets an award for something.. Finally.. the Man of the Match.. it's Glenn Maxwell.

"It's always a nice time to come back here," Maxwell says. "Hopefully we can make a clean sweep. I was just playing my role. Today I came in a different situation with the ball spinning.. Just tried to play to the situation and get close to the total. I hope i put in enough performances here and hope to get noticed when Test selection comes in."

Another series win for Australia against Pakistan.. the last one for Pakistan was in 2002. Glenn Maxwell played an anchoring hand to lead the chase and in the end, they hunt it down with ease. In the end, you have to look at the Pakistan batting collapse.. A century opening stand, followed by 89 for 10.. Easily, they were short by 40-50 runs. Pakistan fought hard with the ball, but there was just not enough to defend. Misbah said on the eve of the match that the confidence of the batsmen was "shaky" and today's performance is not going to boost it anyway. Stick around for the presentation.

43.2
4
Mohammad Irfan to Faulkner, FOUR, game over! Faulkner moves to the leg side and slaps the length delivery over mid-off to complete the series win
43.1
4
Mohammad Irfan to Faulkner, FOUR, they want to finish this fast! He takes this attempted yorker on the full, clears his front leg and hammers it through extra cover

END OF OVER:
43 | 4 Runs | AUS: 209/5 (7 runs required from 42 balls, RR: 4.86, RRR: 1.00)

  • Brad Haddin17 (20b)
  • James Faulkner18 (35b)
  • Raza Hasan10-0-68-1
  • Mohammad Irfan9-0-34-1
42.6
0
Raza Hasan to Haddin, no run, full and flighted, driven straight to cover
42.5
1
Raza Hasan to Faulkner, 1 run, tossed up on off, the batsman dabs it to the gap at cover and picks up another single
42.4
2
Raza Hasan to Faulkner, 2 runs, stands tall and punches it to deep extra cover.. the fielder is a touch slow so they come back for the second
42.3
0
Raza Hasan to Faulkner, no run, allows the ball to turn, then pushes it to backward point
42.2
0
Raza Hasan to Faulkner, no run, he waits on the back foot and punches it down the pitch, back to the bowler
42.1
1
Raza Hasan to Haddin, 1 run, tossed up delivery on the stump, the batsman takes it on the full and eases it to long on

END OF OVER:
42 | 1 Run | AUS: 205/5 (11 runs required from 48 balls, RR: 4.88, RRR: 1.37)

  • James Faulkner15 (31b)
  • Brad Haddin16 (18b)
  • Mohammad Irfan9-0-34-1
  • Shahid Afridi10-0-36-0
41.6
0
Mohammad Irfan to Faulkner, no run, this shoots up from a short of length, Faulkner sees it early and drops his wrists to let it go through
41.5
1
Mohammad Irfan to Haddin, 1 run, he looks to pull the back of length delivery but gets hurried by the pace, gets a bit of bottom edge to fine leg
41.4
0
Mohammad Irfan to Haddin, no run, looks for the yorker but it's a low full toss, all Haddin can do is punch it back to the bowler, who grabs it with his left hand and fires a throw back at the batsman
41.3
0
Mohammad Irfan to Haddin, no run, punches it firmly on the up and that travels to mid-off in quick time.. some timing there.. but straight to the fielder
41.2
0
Mohammad Irfan to Haddin, no run, bowls the fuller length this time but Haddin stays rooted to the crease, gets an outside edge as he pokes at it, however, it lands short of slip yet again
41.1
0
Mohammad Irfan to Haddin, no run, back of length on off stump, Haddin shuffles across and defends that solidly to the off side

Back to Irfan..

END OF OVER:
41 | 2 Runs | AUS: 204/5 (12 runs required from 54 balls, RR: 4.97, RRR: 1.33)

  • Brad Haddin15 (13b)
  • James Faulkner15 (30b)
  • Shahid Afridi10-0-36-0
  • Raza Hasan9-0-64-1
40.6
1
Shahid Afridi to Haddin, 1 run, he dabs it to cover with soft hands and calls over for a quick single
40.5
0
Shahid Afridi to Haddin, no run, full and flighted, it's pushed back to the bowler
40.4
0
Shahid Afridi to Haddin, no run, it stays a touch low on off, but easily defended to the off
40.3
0
Shahid Afridi to Haddin, no run, superb delivery, but it's all too late! This one drifts in, then breaks away past the outside edge

Australia tour of United Arab Emirates 2014-15 News

The Only Show

1

Number of players who have a 30+ average and 120+ strike-rate after playing at least 25 ODIs - Glenn Maxwell is the only one

Getting It Done

78

Australia's win percentage when chasing targets of 220 or less - only South Africa are marginally ahead (78.4%)

Top Defenders

61

Number of ODIs Pakistan have won after scoring 220 or less batting first - more than any other team

Implosion

215

Pakistan's lowest score batting first in 50-over game when both openers have made 50-plus scores

Afridi's low five

5

Afridi has made single figure scores in 5 of his 10 ODI innings in 2014

Sweet Sixty

1

Number of times before today that both Pakistan openers have been dismissed in the 60s - also in the UAE (at Sharjah)

Non-Akmal Landmark

1

Number of times in the last 10 years that a Pakistan keeper without the Akmal surname has scored an ODI fifty - Sarfraz became the first today

Long Wait

43

Number of ODI innings Pakistan went without a century opening stand till today

Dominating at 'Home'

0

Number of times post 2000 that Pakistan have not lost a wicket in the first 20 overs of an ODI against Australia outside the UAE - thrice in the UAE

Opening Salvo

11

Number of 50+ opening partnerships for Pakistan in the last two years. Only England, India and Sri Lanka have more

Starting Well

8

Number of times since 2001 that Pakistan have not lost a wicket in the first 10 overs of an ODI innings against Australia