Pakistan vs Australia Highlights: Super Eight T20 World Cup Match

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The Pakistani spinners proved to be a handful on this pitch. Raza Hasan and Saeed Ajmal were too good for the Australian top order. Watson failed for the first time and it took a brilliant fifty from Michael Hussey to guide Australia past the target of 112 which was needed for them to qualify for the semi-finals.

ICC World T20 2012: Australia vs Pakistan, 23rd Match, Super Eights, Colombo - October 2, 2012
Australia won the toss, and elected to field
Pakistan: 149/6 (20.0 Ovs)
Australia: 117/7 (20.0 Ovs)
Pakistan won by 32 runs
Man of the Match Raza Hasan

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Pakistan won the second Twenty20 international against in a dramatic super over on Friday at Dubai.
After Australia set a target of 12 runs for the Pakistani, skipper Mohammad Hafeez put Umar Akmal and Abdul Razzaq, for the run chase.

Australian skipper George Bailey chose young Pat Cummins, who was left dejected at the end of the super over.

"I'm not sure there are any No. 9 batsman to tie the game and he was really keen to bowl that over and that is something that is exciting from my point of view," Bailey said. "He will learn out of that ... I think his first four overs in terms of actual game were outstanding. On another day, he could have 3-20. I really like his last two games. I'm really excited about them."

Australia began the series with one of their worst Twenty20 losses but they finished it with their second-best win in the format, crushing Pakistan by 94 runs in the dead rubber in Dubai. David Warner and Shane Watson set up the victory with an Australian-record opening partnership before Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc ran through Pakistan, who suffered their worst defeat in a T20 international and were all out for 74, their lowest total in the format.

Pakistan still won the series 2-1 but if the old sporting cliché that you're only as good as your last performance can be trusted, the Australians will be reasonably happy when they arrive in Sri Lanka in the next few days for the ICC World Twenty20. The fact that Warner and Watson both fired and found their six-hitting rhythm would be especially pleasing for the captain George Bailey, although some more runs from the middle order would have been preferable.

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