| Australia 318 (96.5 overs) & 262 (84.1 overs): Marsh 96; Hamza 4-32 |
| Pakistan 264 (73.5 overs) & 237 (67.2 overs): Masood 60; Cummins 5-49 |
| Australia received by 79 runs |
| Scorecard |
Pat Cummins completed with 10 wickets within the match as Australia beat Pakistan by 79 runs inside 4 days in Melbourne to seal a Take a look at sequence victory.
Captain Cummins took 5-49 as Pakistan had been bowled out for 237 of their second innings, chasing 317 for victory.
The match was delicately poised with Pakistan 219-5 earlier than they misplaced their final 5 wickets for simply 18 runs.
The final 4 batters all fell for geese, with Mitchell Starc supporting Cummins with 4-55.
Victory offers Australia an unassailable 2-0 lead within the three-match sequence, with the ultimate Take a look at beginning on 2 January in Sydney.
Australia resumed day 4 on 187-6 and Alex Carey’s half-century boosted them to a commanding lead, ending 262 all out with Pakistan seamers Shaheen Afridi and Mir Hamza taking 4 wickets every.
However the vacationers’ chase began poorly with Abdullah Shafique falling for simply 4 within the fifth over, the day after he had dropped Mitchell Marsh – scorer of a match-winning 96 – on 20.
The expertise of captain Shan Masood, with 60, and Babar Azam, who scored 41, appeared to have steered Pakistan out of hassle, earlier than Mohammad Rizwan’s 35 and Salman Agha’s half-century put them ready to chase victory.
However Rizwan’s dismissal by Cummins, who additionally eliminated the well-set Masood, sparked a dramatic collapse and Agha discovered no help from the decrease order.
Cummins was named participant of the match for his bowling show, which included 5-48 in Pakistan’s first innings, as he completed with match figures of 10-97. It’s the second 10-wicket haul of his profession.
The sequence victory caps a outstanding yr for the 30-year-old, who led Australia as they retained the Ashes in England in the summertime after which received the World Cup in November.