Pakistan vs Australia, Live Updates ICC World Twenty20 2016: Pakistan reach stadium for crucial match against Australia in Mohali
Pakistan vs Australia Live Score, Updates: Pakistan take on Australia in Mohali on Friday. (Source: PTI)
Pakistan take on Australia in a must-win ICC World Twenty20 clash in Mohali on Friday. The Shahid Afridi-led unit, if they win today, keep their semis hopes alive because of a good run-rate. Australia, with advantage of an extra game to play, wouldn’t want to slip at this stage in the group of death. Catch live cricket updates and live news from the ICC World Twenty20 match here. (STATS || POINTS TABLE || FIXTURES)
# MEANWHILE, the Watsons thank everyone for their messages after Shane announced that this World T20 will be his last outing for Australia
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# Australia had a good day in Mohali where ‘local lad’ Maxwell enjoyed Holi. Watson, however, announced his retirement
# Pakistan, amid reports of rift, are not in a happy place. As Daksh Panwar writes, there is a bad mood rising
# India would closely follow this game because Pakistan’s win would make the equation for India and Australia very very interesting
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The build-up
Pakistan vs Australia: Steve Smith poses before the team poses for an official photograph at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on Thursday. (Source: Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
Even at the best of times, Pakistan are a divided camp. If you needed a proof of that, Shoaib Malik gave it on Thursday. “In the 2009 (Pakistani) team (that won the WorldT20 in England), six of us were not talking during the World Cup, but still we won. When you lose, a lot of people start talking this should have happened or that should not have not happened. But, in 2009 it was so obvious, six of us were not talking,” Malik revealed at the press conference at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium.
Australia have been the most successful team in the 50-over World Cup but are yet to win the T20 showpiece event. (Source: Reuters)
Australia will have to play better cricket than what they have managed to do so far in the World T20 to have a shot at reaching the semifinals, captain Steve Smith said on Thursday.
Pakistan coach Waqar Younis during a training session in Mohali on Wednesday. (Source: Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
It’s a mood story: A bad mood story.
Waqar Younis’s tone at the press conference after the 22-run loss to New Zealand at the PCA Stadium late on Monday, wasn’t as much sarcastic as it was bilious. To a more detached mind, it might have felt a bit of an over-reaction given that the loss, Pakistan’s second in the tournament, hasn’t completely shut the door on them.
Ahmed Shehzad said that after reciting the Kalma he swears he tried his best to secure victory.(Source: AP)
Pakistan’s experienced opener, Ahmed Shehzad has squashed speculations of groupism in the team, saying he didn’t under-performed deliberately during the World Twenty20 match against New Zealand to undermine skipper Shahid Afridi.
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