Australia beat Pakistan by 7 wickets in the third T20 on the basis of their bowling. With this, the Kangaroos made a clean slate 3-0 in the series. Stoinis was named Player of the Match for scoring an unbeaten 61 runs and Spencer Johnson was named Player of the Series for taking 8 wickets in the series.
In the match played in Hobart on Monday, the Pakistani team was led by Agha Salman in place of Mohammad Rizwan. In this match, the Pakistani team, batting first, totaled 117 runs in 18.1 overs. Australia set a target of 118 runs to win and the team won the match losing 3 wickets in 11.2 overs.
Pakistani captain Agha Salman won the toss and elected to bat.
Marcus Stoinis’ half-century of invincibility
Australia reached the target of 118 runs to win. Opener Matthew Short was dismissed by Shaheen Afridi for 2 runs. After that, Jack Fraser was out after scoring 18 points and captain Josh Inglis was out after scoring 27 points.
Marcus Stoinis led the team to victory by playing an unbeaten innings of 61 runs with the help of 5 sixes and 5 fours in 27 balls. Tim David also remained undefeated after scoring 7 points. Shaheen Afridi, Abbas Afridi and Jahandad Khan took a wicket each for Pakistan.
Babar Azam, Pakistan’s top scorer
Australian bowlers performed brilliantly against Pakistan. Babar Azam played the highest innings of 41 runs for the Pakistani team. Apart from this, Hasibullah Khan scored 24 points, Shaheen Afridi 16 and Irfan Khan 10 points. 7 batsmen could not reach double figures.
For Australia, Aaron Hardy took 3 wickets while Spencer Johnson and Adam Zampa took 2-2 wickets. While Xavier Bartlett and Nathan Ellis achieved one success each.