They were indebted to Umar Akmal’s career-best 64 that helped
Australia, chasing 168 to win, were bowled out for 144 with off-spinner Saeed Ajmal (three wickets for 26 runs off his maximum four overs) and teenage left-arm quick Mohammad Aamer doing the bulk of the damage.
Victory put
They’d been 62 for four, chasing 192 when the left-hander’s unbeaten 60 off 24 balls saw
But Umar Gul, who missed the World Twenty20 through injury, captured the prize wicket of Michael Hussey by bowling him for 18 with a superb reverse-swinging delivery.
Gul then bowled Tim Paine, going across his stumps, to leave
Ajmal finished the match with eight balls to spare by having Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Tait stumped.
But the second over, from fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, went for 20 runs as left-hander David Warner struck fours off all the first five balls from the ‘Rawalpindi Express,’ for four.
However,
But runs kept coming before David Hussey eventually skied leg-spinner Afridi to Shoaib Malik for 34.
And 81 for three became 85 for four when Warner, who made 41 off just 30 balls, was bowled by off-spinner’s Saeed Ajmal’s second delivery as he tried run the ball down to third man.
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