We have been successfully moved to the ultimate day of the warm-up matches of the ICC Men’s Cricket Worldcup 2023 without getting interrupted at Hyderabad. One of the 3 warm-up matches of ICC Men’s CWC23 have to be played Today. Luckily, No rain today at the Hyderabad in the 1st inning of the practice match and we witness some action inthe 3rd powerplay too.
Earlier in the match, Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first. Skipper Babar Azam is rested today and Shaheen in for opening the bowling for Pakistan.
David Warner and Mitchell March open the innings for Australia and they provided a solid platform without giving away any wickets to Pakistani quicks in the 1st powerplay. Australia were capable to score 64/0 in 1st powerplay of the ICC CWC23, India, smashing five 4s and three 6s. Only Hassan Ali proved economical in his 4-overs spell where he only conceded 12 with the economy of 3.
The onset of 2nd powerplay of ICC’s Cricket Worldcup 2023 India’s warm-up match was more threatening as the Kangroos continue their charge against the pace-attack. Usama provided the breakthrough. 1st Warner and then he removed Marsh in quick succession. Both openers went back to the dugout when team’s total was 92 in 14.1 overs.
Pakistan side continued leaking runs consistantly in bowling and fielding too. Maxwell missed the spark in the beginnging of his inning but played some brilliant shots once he got going. The pick of the batter for 2nd powerplay (11-40) was Maxwell who rebuilt the innings successfully. From Pakistan, it were Usama Mir with 2 quick wickets to set the tone for Pakistan.
To be precise, To be precise, Australia were 248/5 with the current runrate of 6.20 at the end of the powerplay. They grabbed 184 in the 2nd powerplay with the RR of 6.13 of the innings losing 5 wickets to Pakistani bowlers. Maxwell seemd to be shifting gears after his 50-mark and scored 76 off 68 with a strike rate of 112 including four 4s and six 6s at the end of the powerplay.
Pakistan continued with their spin attack and that time Shadab removed 83-run stand with the help of substitute Babar. Autralia were 255/6 in the 41 overs and Maxwell had gone for 77 off 71. Australia needed someone to stand and deliver in the last powerplay with 4 wickets in hand and 9 overs to go.
Josh Inglis and Cameron Green led Australia in the final phase of the inning. Inglis scored 48 off only 30 with striking at 160 and fallen prey to Wasim in the 49th over.
Cameron Green scored his fifty off 40 striking at 125.
The ultimate powerplay proved fatal for Pakistan as they leaked 103 in the last ten against 2 wickets with the runrate of 10.3. The quickest Rauf proved very lethal for Pakistan as he leaked 97 for his 9 at 10.77 getting only wicket of Steven Smith.
Australia score 351 in their entire inning which meant Pakistan to chase down 352 for winning this warm-up game against Australia.
