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PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

PAK vs AUS LIVE – AUS beat PAK Highlights – Babar Azam & Co suffered a humiliating collapse once again as Australia cruised to a 88-run victory in the first ODI to take 1-0 lead in the ODI series. Travis Head and Adam Zampa were the architects with a century and a four-wicket haul as they […]

PAK vs AUS LIVE – AUS beat PAK Highlights – Babar Azam & Co suffered a humiliating collapse once again as Australia cruised to a 88-run victory in the first ODI to take 1-0 lead in the ODI series. Travis Head and Adam Zampa were the architects with a century and a four-wicket haul as they made short work of Imam Ul-Haq’s fine century and Azam’s half-century. Follow PAK vs AUS Live Updates on InsideSport.IN

Head’s 72-ball 101 guided Australia to a challenging 313-7 before the 28-year-old turned his arm over for 2-35 to bowl Pakistan out for 225 in 45.2 overs. Leg-spinner Adam Zampa also starred with the ball, taking 4-38 in ten probing overs. The victory gives Australia a 1-0 lead in the three-match series, their tenth successive ODI win over Pakistan since January 2017.

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

Opener Imam-ul-Haq hit a fighting 96-ball 103 while skipper Babar Azam made a 72-ball 57 but with the asking rate hovering around 9.5 Australia were never in doubt of victory. Haq hit six boundaries and three sixes in his eighth one-day international century but was bowled by paceman Nathan Ellis in the 39th over with 110 needed off 66 balls.

Haq added 96 with Azam for the second wicket after opener Fakhar Zaman fell for 18 and another 38 with Khushdil Shah (19) for the sixth wicket.

Azam, who hit six boundaries in his knock, became the second-fastest batter to complete 4,000 ODI runs in 82 innings, one more than South African Hashim Amla’s record.

Azam was trapped leg-before wicket by Mitchell Swepson in the 25th over before Head dismissed Saud Shakil (three) and Iftikhar Ahmed (three) to further jolt Pakistan.

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq's ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead - Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

Zampa finished with the wickets of Mohammad Rizwan (ten), Hasan Ali (two), Mohammad Wasim (nought) and Khushdil.

Earlier, Head knocked his second one-day international hundred and Ben McDermott hit a career-best 55 from 70 balls after Australia were sent in to bat by Pakistan at the Gaddafi Stadium.

Head, playing his first ODI since November 2018, cracked 12 boundaries and three sixes and put on 110 for the opening wicket with skipper Aaron Finch who made 23.

Head took a single off spinner Iftikhar to reach three figures off 70 balls, the fastest ODI century by an Australian against Pakistan. He beat David Warner’s record from 78 balls in Adelaide in 2017.

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq's ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead - Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

With the score at 209-2 in the 33rd over, Pakistan pulled back with three wickets for just 21 runs in the space of 39 balls, dismissing McDermott, Marnus Labuschagne (25) and Alex Carey (four).

Cameron Green (40 not out), Marcus Stoinis (26) and Sean Abbott (14) helped Australia score 50 in the last five overs and get past the 300-mark. Green hit three boundaries and a six in his 30-ball knock.

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

For Pakistan, pacer Haris Rauf took 2-44 and debutant leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood finished with 2-59.

Australia, already missing key players such as Warner, Steve Smith, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc for multiple reasons, were further depleted after spinner Ashton Agar tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday.

The remaining two matches are on Thursday and Saturday, also in Lahore.

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

Pakistan 225 all out, lost by 88 runs

Batsmen R B 4S 6S SR
Fakhar Zaman c TM Head b Sean Abbott 18 18 3 0 100.00
Imam ul Haq b Nathan Ellis 103 96 6 3 107.29
Babar Azam (C) lbw b Mitchell Swepson 57 72 6 0 79.17
Saud Shakeel c Marnus Labuschagne b TM Head 3 8 0 0 37.50
Mohammad Rizwan (WK) c AT Carey b A Zampa 10 18 0 0 55.56
Iftikhar Ahmed c Sean Abbott b TM Head 2 9 0 0 22.22
Khushdil Shah c AT Carey b A Zampa 19 22 1 0 86.36
Hasan Ali b A Zampa 2 9 0 0 22.22
Mohammad Wasim b A Zampa 0 1 0 0 0.00
Haris Rauf c C Green b Mitchell Swepson 7 17 1 0 41.18
Zahid Mahmood Not out 0 3 0 0 0.00
Extra 4 (b 0, w 3, nb 1, lb 0)
Total 225/10 (45.2)
BOWLING O M R W ECON
Sean Abbott 7 0 36 1 5.14
Cameron Green 3 0 18 0 6.00
Adam Zampa 10 0 38 4 3.80
Nathan Ellis 8 0 36 1 4.50
Mitchell Swepson 8.2 0 53 2 6.36
Marcus Stoinis 3 0 9 0 3.00
Travis Head 6 0 35 2 5.83
Fall Of Wickets FOW Over
FK Zaman 1-24 4.3
Babar Azam 2-120 24.1
Saud Shakeel 3-132 26.4
Mohammad Rizwan 4-151 30.6
Iftikhar Ahmed 5-166 33.3
IU Haq 6-204 38.6
Hasan Ali 7-213 41.2
Mohammad Wasim 8-213 41.3
Khushdil Shah 9-217 43.2
Haris Rauf 10-225 45.2

 

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights

Australia Innings: 313/7

BOWLING O M R W ECON
Sean Abbott 6 0 30 1 5.00
Cameron Green 3 0 18 0 6.00
Adam Zampa 8 0 35 1 4.38
Nathan Ellis 4 0 20 0 5.00
Mitchell Swepson 8 0 53 1 6.63
Marcus Stoinis 3 0 9 0 3.00
Travis Head 6 0 35 2 5.83
Batsmen R B 4S 6S SR
Travis Head c Khushdil Shah b Iftikhar Ahmed 101 72 12 3 140.28
Aaron Finch (C) c Mohammad Rizwan b Zahid Mahmood 23 36 0 1 63.89
Ben McDermott runout (Mohammad Rizwan / Mohammad Wasim) 55 70 4 0 78.57
Marnus Labuschagne c Saud Shakeel b Khushdil Shah 25 35 1 0 71.43
Marcus Stoinis b Haris Rauf 26 42 0 1 61.90
Alex Carey (WK) b Zahid Mahmood 4 4 0 0 100.00
Cameron Green Not out 40 30 3 1 133.33
Sean Abbott b Haris Rauf 14 9 2 0 155.56
Nathan Ellis Not out 3 2 0 0 150.00
Extra 22 (b 0, w 13, nb 0, lb 9)
Total 313/7 (50)
Yet To Bat A ZampaMitchell Swepson
BOWLING O M R W ECON
Hasan Ali 8 0 56 0 7.00
Mohammad Wasim 8 0 59 0 7.38
Haris Rauf 8 0 44 2 5.50
Zahid Mahmood 10 0 59 2 5.90
Iftikhar Ahmed 6 0 36 1 6.00
Khushdil Shah 10 0 50 1 5.00
Fall Of Wickets FOW Over
AJ Finch 1-110 14.4
TM Head 2-171 24.6
BR McDermott 3-209 32.6
Marnus Labuschagne 4-224 38.1
AT Carey 5-230 39.2
MP Stoinis 6-277 46.4
Sean Abbott 7-296 48.5

 

PAK vs AUS LIVE: Imam ul-Haq’s ton goes in vain as Travis Head & Adam Zampa power Australia to 88-run victory for 1-0 lead – Check AUS beat PAK Highlights
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