Australia vs Pakistan – 2nd T20 Semi Final
In the 2nd Semi Final T20 match, Australian Team defeats Pakistan by 3 wickets in ICC Twenty20 Tournament of World Cup 2010. Mike Hussey of Australia became the key-player for the match. He scored 60 runs in only 24 balls (including 3 fours & 6 sixes). First, Pakistan gave a huge target of 191 runs for 6 wickets to the rival but Australia made 197 runs for the loss of 7 wickets with 1 bowl remaining. So, now Australia would play the final match against England tomorrow.
Toss: Australian captain won the toss and offered Pakistan team to bat first. Australia took right decision as they won superbly and achieved a huge target of 191 runs easily.
Australian Counterpart: To score the big target, Australian Warner & Watson came on the pitch for batting. Warner scored nil while Watson scored 16 runs. Haddin made 25 runs, Clarke 17, DJ Hussey 13, White scored 2nd highest 43 runs, Smith & Johnson scored 5 runs each. MEK Hussey scored the highest 60 runs in only 24 runs & he too was the man of the match. With 13 extras runs, Australia scored more than the given target. Thus, they won the 2nd Semi-final of ICC T20 World Cup 2010 by 3 wickets. Pakistani Aamer took 3 wickets, Rehman 2 while Ajmal & Afridi took single wicket each.
Pakistan Counterpart: After winning the toss, Pakistani Kamran & Butt gave a terrific start to his team. Kamran scored half-century whereas Butt made 32 runs, Umar made highest total of 56 runs, Afridi, the most senior player could make only 8 runs, Latif made 13 runs, Abdul made 12 runs & Misbah-ul-Haq was out at nil. With 20 extra runs, Pakistan whole team gave a huge target of 191 runs to the rival team. Australian Nannes, Johnson, Smith & DJ Hussey took single wicket each.
Final Words: Australia as usual became the winner of the 2nd Semi-final live cricket and easily accessed a way for the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2010. Pakistan team too performed very well in batting as they terrifically scored a huge target but their batting order did not show some miraculous performance. Bad luck for the Pakistan team as they lost the chance to enter in the final of ICC Tournament.