AUS VS PAK: Pakistan’s pacers shine, Australia’s top order scattered, tsunami of speed in Adelaide

New DelhiPakistan’s fast bowlers wreaked havoc on the Adelaide grounds. As a result, the Australian team, which was ahead in the series, had to be on the backfoot from the very beginning in the second ODI. Today, Pakistan came on the field with 4 fast bowlers and every bowler decided to keep the noose on Australia tight from the beginning.

In the second ODI in Adelaide, Pakistan captain Rizwan won the toss and decided to bowl first. Josh Hazlewood got a chance in place of Sean Abbott in Australia’s playing 11. Talking about Pakistan, Naseem Shah had to leave the field in the first ODI due to cramps, he managed to save his place. Pakistan’s intentions were very clear, they wanted to challenge Australia on speed, in which they succeeded from the beginning.

feat of pak pacers

There was grass on the Adelaide pitch and bounce which would make any fast bowler’s mouth water, then how could Shaheen Shah, Harris Rauf, Naseem Shah and Hasnain stop themselves. Shaheen spoiled Australia’s start by dismissing McGurk in the third over and Short in the seventh over. Taking advantage of the bad start, Harris Rauf did not allow Australia to recover. Rauf bowled brilliantly and sent 4 batsmen to the pavilion and made sure that Australia could not score any big score. Rauf took a total of five wickets. Rauf’s balls had amazing bounce which no Kangaroo batsman could match.

Australian batting disintegrated

After Melbourne, now even in Adelaide the Kangaroo batsmen had no plan for the Pakistan pacers. Except the experienced Steve Smith, all the batsmen looked helpless in front of bounce and pace. The situation was such that most of the batsmen reached double figures but could not convert it into big innings. Smith scored the maximum 35 runs. World Cup hero Maxwell also could not do anything special, similar was the condition of all the batsmen. The result was that the Australian innings was reduced to only 163. The interesting thing is that Pakistan’s bowlers took only 35 overs to defeat the host team.

Tags: Babar Azam, Mohammed Rizwan, pakistan vs australia, Shaheen Shah Afridi