Australia are currently world champions. Last year, Australia defeated India in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 final to become world champions. A year after winning the title, Australia will play the first ODI series against Pakistan. In this three-match series, the hosts Australia won the first match by 2 wickets. Australia snatched victory from Pakistan thanks to an innings of 32 runs from captain Pat Cummins. In the first game, Pakistan had a great chance to win, but the result failed to go in Pakistan’s favour.
Learning from the lessons of the first-match defeat, Pakistan bowlers put in a stellar performance in the second ODI at the Adelaide Oval, beating Australia by 163 runs in just 35 overs. Australia’s highest score came with the bat of Steve Smith. Facing 48 balls, Smith scored an innings of 35 runs with the help of 5 fours and 1 six. Apart from him, no other batsman has reached the 20-run mark. In this way, a very shameful record was registered in Australia’s name.
Australia had to live through a shameful day
In fact, not a single Australian batsman has been able to reach the half-century mark, which is 50 runs, in this ODI match. This is the sixth time in the history of Australian ODI cricket that no Australian batsman has scored a half-century in an ODI match. Australia saw this in two consecutive ODI World Cup matches last year. That was how things went for Australia in their first match of this World Cup against India. The Wallabies then had a bad day in their next game against South Africa.
When an Australian player fails to score a half-century in an ODI match
- 1981 vs. New Zealand
- vs England in 2013
- vs Pakistan in 2022
- 2023 World Cup vs India and South Africa (back-to-back matches)
- vs Pakistan in 2024
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