Pakistan clinch last-ball win over Afghanistan in their first ever T20I match

Pakistan played its first ever T20I with the emerging cricket team of Afghanistan at Sharjah Sunday evening and won the match in a sensational ending.

Afghan team gave a target of 138 runs to Pakistan at Sharjah - but then restricted Pakistan to the last over with six runs remaining to reach the target.

Afghanistan, who won the toss and batted, had a poor start as they lost both their openers Mohammad Shahzad (two) and Nawroz Mangal (one) by the fifth over.

But Najibullah Zadran (38) and Nabi (15 off ten) gave solidity to the innings, adding 35 for the fourth wicket in quick time.

But once left-arm paceman Junaid Khan came on to bowl he put the brakes on the Afghanistan batting, cleaning Najibullah and Samiullah Sinwari (16) in quick succession to finish with 3-24 in his four overs.

It was finally Pakistan's skipper Mohammad Hafeez who kept his cool to finish with a 37-ball 42 not out as Pakistan needed six off the final over bowled by Dawlat Zadran and one off the last delivery.

Hafeez hit two boundaries and a six during his knock and avoided any major hiccup against a fighting Afghan team. While openers Ahmed Shehzad (35) and debutant Sharjeel Khan (18) by the eighth over. Shehzad, who hit six boundaries during his 37-ball knock, holed out while Sharjeel miscued a drive off Mohammad Nabi in the tenth over.

Pakistan now play Sri Lanka in the two Twenty20 games in Dubai on Wednesday and Friday while Afghanistan take on Ireland in the final of the ICC Inter-Continental Cup in Dubai from Tuesday.

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Pakistan v South Africa: First ODI - Sharjah | Watch Free Live Streaming - 30 October

After a 1-1 test series, the visiting South African and Pakistani cricket teams embark upon the 5-ODI series at the neutral venue in the UAE at Sharjah Cricket Stadium Wednesday morning today.

Ahead of the match, the South African captain De Villiers has vowed to take a winning start against Pakistan despite absence of Amla and Dale Steyn, while the inclusion of Hafeez and Shahid Afridi is being seen as an advantage by the home camp.

Squads:
Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq*, Abdur Rehman, Ahmed Shehzad, Asad Shafiq, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Jamshed, Saeed Ajmal, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Shahid Afridi, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal†, Umar Amin, Wahab Riaz

South Africa: AB de Villiers*†, HM Amla, Q de Kock†, JP Duminy, F du Plessis, Imran Tahir, R McLaren, DA Miller, M Morkel, WD Parnell, RJ Peterson, VD Philander, GC Smith, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe

Umpires RK Illingworth and Shozab Raza

The match is scheduled for October 30 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium at 08:31 local, 11:00 (GMT 0).

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Maxwell fifty help Aussies win series

Australia endured a difficult time in the heat of Sharjah but came out on top by three wickets in the third ODI against Pakistan, winning the series 2-1 in the process thanks to a Glenn Maxwell cameo.

The all-rounder hit 56 not out off 38 balls to see his side home, after he and Michael Hussey (65) had steadied the ship after Saeed Ajmal threatened to blow their chase of 245 off course.

Pakistan had made 244 after being sent in to bat by Michael Clarke, and though they started with a century stand between Mohammad Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed, they lost seven wickets, four to Mitchell Starc, and could not capitalise on that base.

Australia's chase started well, but regular wickets and Ajmal's dominance looked like they would prevent a successful match for the exhausted visitors, but the Hussey brothers and Maxwell made sure to get over the line with 18 balls remaining.

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Australia vs Pakistan: 3rd ODI - Watch Live Free Streaming from Sharjah | 3 September

Pakistan and Australian cricket teams come back to Sharjah to play their third ODI at Sharjah cricket stadium Monday today.

After winning the first ODI, thanks to firey Starc bowling, the Aussies lost the second ODI to Pakistan due to btilliant bowling of Saeed Ajmal and 97 by Janshed of Pakistan.

It remains to be seen how the two bowlers fare in today;s ODI as it is their performance more than batsmen that will decide who packs up the ace batsmen to curtail each other.

Likely teams for the 3rd ODI:

Australia: MJ Clarke*, GJ Bailey, DT Christian, XJ Doherty, CJ Ferguson, DJ Hussey, MEK Hussey, MG Johnson, AC McDermott, GJ Maxwell, JL Pattinson, SPD Smith, MA Starc, MS Wade†, DA Warner

Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq*, Abdur Rehman, Aizaz Cheema, Anwar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Imran Farhat, Junaid Khan, Kamran Akmal†, Mohammad Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal

Umpires: Ahsan Raza and BF Bowden

The match is scheduled for Monday, 3 September 2012 at at 14:00 GMT at Sharjah cricket stadium

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Starc rips through Pakistan batting line - claims 5 for 42

In the first Pakistan - Australia ODI at Sharjah cricket stadium Tuesday evening, Pakistan were all out for 198 in just about 45.1 overs owing to tremendous bowling by Starc.

In fact Starc took wickets of all those batsmen who mattered today. He struck Nasir Jamshed at 23. Then he demolished Asad Shafiq at 56. He then took Kamran Akmal for four and despite the fanfare arrival of Boom Boom Afridi in the ground, he was sent back immediately for duck by Starc. The last standing batsman who mattered was Umer Akmal, who also succumbed to Star when he was at 52.

Thus ended the day for Pakistan, as bowlers coming one after the other were easy prey for the Aussies. At 198/9, Saeed Ajmal was given LBW. But when he asked for replay, he was found not to be out. However, after another two added to the total, he was finally bowled by Pattinson for 8.

Pakistan now set a target of 199 for the Aussies. Let us see how the yellow shirts play in a rather less hot mercury of Sharjah night.

Pakistan vs Australia: Watch Live first ODI free Streaming | Sharjah - 28 August 2012

Finally it is here - the much awaited Pakistan - Australia cricket at a neutral venue, that is Sharjah cricket stadium, UAE on 28th August - that is today. Pakistan and Australia will play two more ODIs on 31 August (Abu Dhabi) and 3 September (Sharjah).

The ODIs at UAE are going to be hot, I mean really hot as UAE sizzles at this time of the year with mercury going up to around mid thrties degrees celcius. The high mercury level coupled with high humididty level will pose problems for both teams when they come face to face in their first ODI day/night cricket matcj at Sharjah.

As for the stats, Australia has an upper edge over Pakistan in the 35 matches played since 2000 with a 28-8 win ratio. n the last series played between the two teams in the UAE, Australia beat Pakistan 3-2. Pakistan.

On the other hand, Pakistan has had rather good cricket recently, as they beat Sri Lanka and BD in the last 12 months, but lost to England 4-0 after a spectacular 3-0 win in the test matcges over the hosts. Later Pakistan won the Asia Cup, but lost the following ODI series in Sri Lanka 3-1.

Both captains have shown determiniation to outscore the other and it is going to be fun watching the two teams playing against each other presiptaing in the Sharjah high temperatures.

The likely opposing squads are as under:
Australia: MJ Clarke*, GJ Bailey, DT Christian, XJ Doherty, CJ Ferguson, DJ Hussey, MEK Hussey, MG Johnson, AC McDermott, GJ Maxwell, JL Pattinson, SPD Smith, MA Starc, MS Wade†, DA Warner

Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq*, Abdur Rehman, Aizaz Cheema, Anwar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Imran Farhat, Junaid Khan, Kamran Akmal†, Mohammad Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal

Lets us watch the match to find out, which is scheduled for Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at 14:00 GMT at Sharjah cricket stadium, UAE.

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Pak release dates for Aus series in UAE

Pakistan will play three one-day internationals and three Twenty20 matches against Australia between Aug. 28 and Sept. 10 in the United Arab Emirates.

The Pakistan Cricket Board released the schedule on Thursday, with Sharjah hosting the first and third ODIs on Aug. 28 and Sept. 3 and Abu Dhabi staging the second match on Aug. 31

All three Twenty20 matches will be played in Dubai, on Sept. 5, 7 and 10.

The ODIs will start at 6:00 p.m. local time to counter the extreme daytime heat in the UAE. The T20 games will begin at 8:00 p.m.


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