Pakistani cricket team in Australia in 2009–10

Pakistan cricket team in Australia in 2009–10

	Pakistan	Australia
Dates	19 December 2009 – 5 February 2010
Captains	Mohammad Yousuf Shahid Afridi (5th ODI) Shoaib Malik (Twenty20)	Ricky Ponting Michael Clarke (Twenty20)
Test series
Result	Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Salman Butt (280) Umar Akmal (199) Mohammad Yousuf (178)	Ricky Ponting (378) Shane Watson (346) Michael Hussey (267)
Most wickets	Mohammad Asif (13) Danish Kaneria (9) Mohammad Aamer (8)	Nathan Hauritz (18) Doug Bollinger (12) Mitchell Johnson (12)
Player of the series	Shane Watson (Australia)
One Day International series
Result	Australia won the 5-match series 5–0
Most runs	Umar Akmal (187) Shahid Afridi (127) Fawad Alam (117)	Cameron White (245) Michael Hussey (220) Shaun Marsh (176)
Most wickets	Mohammad Asif (6) Shahid Afridi (6) Naved-ul-Hasan (6)	Clint McKay (14) Ryan Harris (13) Shane Watson (6)
Player of the series	Ryan Harris (Australia)
Twenty20 International series
Result	Australia won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Kamran Akmal (64) Umar Akmal(21)	David Hussey (40) Michael Clarke (32)
Most wickets	Umar Gul (3) Shoaib Malik (2)	Shaun Tait (3) Shane Watson (2)
Player of the series	Shaun Tait (Australia)

The Pakistan cricket team toured Australia for a 3-match Test series, a 5-match ODI series, and 1 Twenty20 International from 19 December 2009 to 5 February 2010.^[1]

During the final ODI match, the stand-in captain, Shahid Afridi, was involved in an alleged ball tampering incident, when he was seen biting the cricket ball.^[2]^[3]^[4] He was immediately called by the match referee after the match was over. There Afridi pleaded guilty to ball tampering and he was banned from two Twenty20 Internationals.^[5]

During the Twenty20 International, Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait bowled the fastest delivery ever recorded in Australia (160.7 km/h).^[6] Tait achieved the feat on the second ball of his first over. It is also the third fastest delivery ever recorded behind Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar.^[6]

Australia registered a clean sweep by winning the Test series 3-0, the ODI series 5-0 and the only T20.

During the tour, speculation was rife that captain Mohammad Yousuf was involved in a power struggle with former skippers Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik and that team morale was low.

Following the tour, the Pakistan Cricket Board conducted an inquiry and announced that Yousuf and Younis would not be selected for the country in future, implying a life exclusion, and banned Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan for a year each. Afridi and the brothers Umar and Kamran Akmal were all fined and put on probation for six months.^[7] Kamran had been dropped after the second Test because of a string of dropped catches, but spoke out against the decision and insisted that he was not dropped, while Umar was accused of disruption by feigning injury in an attempt to go on strike in solidarity.

Squads

Test squads		ODI squads		Twenty20 squads
Australia	Pakistan^[8]	Australia	Pakistan^[9]	Australia	Pakistan
Ricky Ponting (c)	Mohammad Yousuf (c)	Ricky Ponting (c)	Mohammad Yousuf (c)	Michael Clarke (c)	Shoaib Malik (c)
Michael Clarke	Salman Butt	Michael Clarke	Shahid Afridi	Cameron White	Fawad Alam
Doug Bollinger	Khurram Manzoor	Doug Bollinger	Umar Akmal	Travis Birt	Iftikhar Anjum
Nathan Hauritz	Imran Farhat	Nathan Hauritz	Imran Farhat	Dirk Nannes	Mohammad Aamer
Mike Hussey	Misbah-ul-Haq	Mike Hussey	Fawad Alam	Ryan Harris	Imran Nazir
Mitchell Johnson	Shoaib Malik	Mitchell Johnson	Younis Khan	David Hussey	Khalid Latif
Simon Katich	Fawad Alam	Cameron White	Saeed Ajmal	Mitchell Johnson	Mohammad Asif
Clint McKay	Faisal Iqbal	Clint McKay	Umar Gul	Shaun Marsh	Naved-ul-Hasan
Brad Haddin (wk)	Kamran Akmal (wk)	Brad Haddin (wk)	Kamran Akmal (wk)	Brad Haddin (wk)	Kamran Akmal (wk)
Marcus North	Danish Kaneria	James Hopes	Shoaib Malik	Steve Smith	Saeed Ajmal
Peter Siddle	Saeed Ajmal	Peter Siddle	Khalid Latif	Shaun Tait	Salman Butt
Shane Watson	Umar Gul	Shane Watson	Mohammad Aamer	David Warner	Sarfraz Ahmed (wk)
Phillip Hughes	Mohammad Asif	Shaun Marsh	Naved-ul-Hasan	Shane Watson	Umar Akmal
	Mohammad Aamer	Adam Voges	Sarfraz Ahmed (wk)		Umar Gul
	Abdur Rauf	Ryan Harris	Salman Butt
	Umar Akmal	Shaun Tait	Rao Iftikhar
	Mohammad Sami^[10]		Mohammad Asif
	Sarfraz Ahmed (wk)^[11]

Tour matches

3-day tour match: Tasmania v Pakistanis - 19–21 December

19 December – 21 December
Scorecard

Pakistan	v	Tasmania
437 (127.4 overs) Salman Butt 153 (266) JJ Krejza 3/162 [28.4]		193 (67.6 overs) GJ Bailey 50 (91) Saeed Ajmal 4/84 [26]
141/4 (33.0 overs) Umar Akmal 55 (50) JJ Krejza 1/27 [5]

Match drawn
Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia
Umpires: Steven John (Aus) and Paul Reiffel (Aus)

Tasmania won the toss and elected to field.

Test series

1st Test

26 December – 30 December
Scorecard

Australia	v	Pakistan
454/5d (128 overs) SM Katich 98 (226) Mohammad Asif 2/86 [27]		258 (99 overs) Misbah-ul-Haq 65* (120) MG Johnson 3/36 [22]
225/8d (73.1 overs) SR Watson 120* (220) Mohammad Aamer 5/79 [24]		251 (72 overs) Mohammad Yousuf 61 (140) NM Hauritz 5/101 [24]

Australia won by 170 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
Attendance: 60,000 (Day1), 40,000 (Day2), 37,000 (Day3)
Umpires: BR Doctrove (WI) and RE Koertzen (SA)
Player of the match: SR Watson (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat

2nd Test

3 January – 7 January
Scorecard

Australia	v	Pakistan
127 (44.2 overs) MG Johnson 38 (57) Mohammad Asif 6/41 [20]		333 (96.5 overs) Salman Butt 71 (164) DE Bollinger 4/72 [21.5]
381 (125.4 overs) MEK Hussey 134* (284) Danish Kaneria 5/151 [47.5]		139 (38 overs) Umar Akmal 49 (81) NM Hauritz 5/53 [12]

Australia won by 36 runs
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) & BR Doctrove (WI)
Player of the match: MEK Hussey (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat
Rain delayed start of play on day 1
Bad light ended play early on day 1
Play resumed half-an-hour early to make up the overs lost on day 1

At an inquiry after the series was completed, the management of the Pakistan team testified that they suspected that some of the Pakistan team conspired with bookmakers in match-fixing events during this match. Pakistani wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal missed four catches and a run-out in the Australian second innings as Australia turned around a substantial first innings deficit to win the Test. However, the Australian captain Michael Clarke stated that he "certainly had no suspicions".^[12] Several months later, Mazhar Majeed a man who had accepted a bribe to provide information about spot-fixing during Pakistan's summer tour of England, stated that the match had been fixed and that the fixers had made more than a million pounds off of Pakistan's loss from a commanding position. There has been no other corroboration of Majeed's statements.^[13]

3rd Test

14 January – 18 January
Scorecard

Australia	v	Pakistan
519/8d (142.5 overs) RT Ponting 209 (354) Danish Kaneria 3/189 [42.5]		301 (105.4 overs) Salman Butt 102 (234) SM Katich 3/34 [10]
219/5d (48.4 overs) SM Katich 100 (138) Shoaib Malik 2/16 [3.4]		206 (86.2 overs) Khurram Manzoor 77 (239) PM Siddle 3/25 [15.2]

Australia won by 231 runs
Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RE Koertzen (SA)
Player of the match: RT Ponting (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat
Sarfraz Ahmed made his test debut for Pakistan.
Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting scored the highest partnership vs Pakistan. (352 runs)
Ricky Ponting scored the first double hundred in a test match at Bellerive Oval.
Rain ended play early on Day 4.

ODI series

1st ODI

22 January 2010
D/N
Scorecard

Pakistan 274 (49.4 overs)	v	Australia 275/5 (48.3 overs)
Salman Butt 72 (81) SR Watson 4/36 [10]		CL White 105 (88) Mohammad Aamer 1/29 [9]

Australia won by 5 wickets
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus)
Player of the match: CL White (Aus)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd ODI

24 January 2010
D/N
Scorecard

Australia 267/6 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 127 (37.3 overs)
SR Watson 69 (71) Mohammad Aamer 3/53 [9]		Mohammad Yousuf 58 (94) CJ McKay 3/15 [7.3]

Australia won by 140 runs
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus)
Player of the match: SR Watson (Aus)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

3rd ODI

26 January 2010
D/N
Scorecard

Australia 286/6 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 246 (47.4 overs)
SE Marsh 83 (113) Naved-ul-Hasan 2/57 [10]		Umar Akmal 59 (76) RJ Harris 5/43 [10]

Australia won by 40 runs.
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and SJA Taufel (Aus)
Player of the match: RJ Harris (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

4th ODI

29 January 2010
D/N
Scorecard

Australia 277/8 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 142 (37.5 overs)
MEK Hussey 67 (75) Mohammad Asif 3/42 [10]		Umar Akmal 38 (60) RJ Harris 5/19 [9.5]

Australia won by 135 runs
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus)
Player of the match: RJ Harris (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

5th ODI

31 January 2010
D/N
Scorecard

Pakistan 212 (49.3 overs)	v	Australia 213/8 (49.2 overs)
Umar Akmal 67 (102) CJ McKay 4/35 [9.3]		RT Ponting 55 (78) Shahid Afridi 2/31 [10]

Australia won by 2 wickets
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) & PR Reiffel (Aus)
Player of the match: CJ McKay (Aus)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
Shahid Afridi filled in as captain after Mohammad Yousuf suffered a knee injury.
Afridi banned for two T20Is after ball-tampering incident.
A pitch invader crash tackled Khalid Latif

Twenty20 International series

5 February 2010
D/N
Scorecard

Australia 127 (18.4 overs)	v	Pakistan 125/9 (20 overs)
DJ Hussey 40 (31) Umar Gul 3/20 [3.4]		Kamran Akmal 64 (33) SW Tait 3/13 [4]

Australia won by 2 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia Attendance: 60,100
Umpires: PR Reiffel (Aus) & RJ Tucker (Aus)
Player of the match: SW Tait (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Travis Birt and Steve Smith made T20 debut for Australia and Imran Farhat made T20 debut for Pakistan.
Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait bowled the quickest ball ever recorded in Australia (160.7 km/h).

Media coverage

Television

Sky Sports (live) (HD) – United Kingdom and Ireland
Star Cricket (live) – India
ESPN (live) – India (3rd Test & few ODI's)
Fox Sports (live) (HD) – Australia
SKY Sport (live) (HD) – New Zealand
Geo Super (live) – Pakistan
PTV Home (live) – Pakistan
Supersport (live) – South Africa
Nine Network (live) – Australia
Eurosport (live) – Europe
DirecTV (live) – USA
Caribbean Media Corporation (live) – Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and Antigua
StarHub (pay per view) – Malaysia and Singapore
ShowSports (live) – Middle East

Radio

ABC Radio (live) – Australia
Humara FM 94.6 (live) – Pakistan

References

↑ "Fixtures, Schedule: Pakistan tour of Australia 2009–10". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
↑ "Australia complete one-day series sweep over Pakistan". bbc.co.uk. 31 January 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
↑ "Controversy mars Australia win". metro.co.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
↑ "Shahid Afridi in ball-tampering scandal during wild night at the WACA". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
↑ "Afridi banned for two T20s for ball-tampering". Cricinfo. 31 January 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
1 2 "Australia beat Pakistan in thrilling Twenty20 match". bbc.co.uk. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
↑ "Rana, Malik get one-year bans, Younis and Yousuf axed from teams". Cricinfo. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
↑ Osman Samiuddin (8 December 2009). "Mohammad Yousuf retained captain for Australia". Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
↑ "Younis Khan returns for Australia ODIs". Cricinfo. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
↑ Cricinfo staff (15 December 2009). "Mohammad Sami recalled for tour of Australia". Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
↑ Cricinfo staff (6 January 2010). "Pakistan rush Sarfraz Ahmed to Australia". Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
↑ Lalor, Peter (20 May 2010). "SCG Test between Pakistan and Australia may have been fixed". Herald Sun.
↑ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/29/2996544.htm

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Pakistan in Australia 2009/10 from Cricketarchive

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