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Thursday 28 March 2019

Zampa, Finch Star as Australia Clinch Series in Style


Captain Aaron Finch missed only one record century while Adam Zampa took 4 wickets, and Pat Cummins claimed that Australia demolished Pakistan by 80 runs in the third one-dayer international at Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

Finch jumped 266-6 off 136 balls to 266-6 in 50 overs on the pitch of the Zaheed stadium, which was slow before Zampa (4-43) and Cummins (3-24) before they Turned at 186 in 18.4, Pakistan's batting jerked. Over

This victory gives Australia an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series with the last two matches in Dubai on Friday and Sunday.

Australia won the first two matches with an equal difference of eight wickets - both in Sharjah - and continued to dominate a poor Pakistan side who surprised their six major players two months ago from the World Cup.

Cummins, after resting in the first two matches, in the beginning of the month, after his 14 wickets in the series win in India, out Shan Masood (2) in his third over and then Haris Sohail (one) and Mohammad Rizwan ( Were in zero). Its fourth

Opener Imam-ul-Haq (46) and Shoaib Malik (32) left Pakistan behind by 16-3 before winning the fourth wicket for 59 runs.

Umar Akmal (36) and Imad Wasim (43) also struggled in their innings of 53 runs for the sixth wicket, but Zampa emptied the tail with the best person's career.

It was Finch who anchored Australia after light rain and initially delayed by 15 minutes.

Finch, who scored 116 and 153 not out in the first two matches, could have been the first Australian to score three hundreds in one-dayers.

Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara has recorded the record of the highest number of four centuries, while nine other batsmen have consistently scored three hundreds in one-day cricket.

Maxwell scored 71 runs with eight fours and a six.

In the 42nd over, Finch dismissed leg spinner Yasir Shah, but he once again created the innings.

Australia started off a brilliant start, and Usman Khawaja's fifth ball bowled Usman Shinawar on zero.

Junaid Khan dismissed Shaun Marsh for 14-2, to leave Australia struggling 20-2 but Finch added 84 runs for the third wicket with Peter Handscomb (47 with 47 boundaries).

Finch added 36 runs for the fifth wicket with Marcus Stonis (10) and 36 for Maxwell.

Maxwell and Alex Carry (25 not out) scored 61 runs for the sixth wicket as Australia scored 90 runs in the last 10 overs.

Australia replaced Richardson and Nathan Coulter-Nile, who injured the fast bowlers Cummins and Jason Behrendorf.

Shaheedi and Junaid were included in Pakistan in place of Faheem Ashraf and Mohammed Abbas.

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