After thumping India : Oz toast Pakistan B squad

4th ODI

Usman Khawaja's sensational form continued, his 62 taking him to the top of the leader board

among ODI runscorers in 2019 !!

Chasing 277

Current Partnership : 132 runs, 23 overs, RR: 5.73 (Abid Ali 55, Mohammad Rizwan 77)

39.4
Zampa to Abid Ali, 2 runs And that takes Abid to the record for highest score on debut for Pakistan

beating Saleem Elahi's record

48.1
Richardson to Mohammad Rizwan, for Rizwan to raise his second hundred of the series.

And this is only the second time that two Pakistan batsmen have scored ODI hundreds in the same chase

5th and Final ODI :

Usman Khawaja 98

Fall of wickets: 1-134 (AJ Finch, 23.2 ov), 2-214 (UT Khawaja, 39.3 ov)

Pakistan got a massive THUMP losing 5 to zero in WC preparation !

OZ should now be the team to beat ~

Aaron Finch is the Player of the Series:
"I've just changed a couple of things technically over the last couple of weeks.
India had the better of me.
Khawaja, his last couple of months have been great and he lead from the front in India.
We'll go to the World Cup with a lot of confidence now, even after a lot of people wrote us off."

It might be sensible not to read too much into Pakistan's 5-0 loss to Australia in the UAE

as they rested seven of their key names as part of their pre-World Cup strategy

to allow them to recover from minor injuries.

The recent success of Usman Khawaja, Peter Handscomb and Ashton Turner

has provided some unexpected options and left some mighty tough selection calls.

It's been assumed Warner and Steve Smith will walk back in
and not too long ago it probably wouldn't have been a tough question
but now they'll be a couple of players harshly done by

ketchim post=370425 Wrote:Following Umar Akmal being sent home by coach Mickey Arhur from the Champions Trophy in 2017. SO the decision to recall him for the five-match series against Australia took many by surprise

https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/10...-night-out

Just over a week after his return to Pakistan colours, Umar Akmal has once again attracted trouble.
This time for attending a music concert, that of hip-hop artist Akon
which resulted in a late night out and a subsequent fine by the Pakistan Cricket Board.