Belted by the Babar-Rizwan opening stand, bruised some more by the Fakhar madness and then absolutely pinned to the ground by Shaheen Akram in that first over. You survive this and you survive anything in life. Australia have. Wade has gotten them to. A proper breakneck speed game this — wickets, recovery, wickets, funkiness, wickets, dropped catches, and then those two scoops. They say big runs on the board do it for you on a big night. Alas, tonight wasn’t that night. Pakistan had 176, they didn’t have a lot of dew to battle either, and for the first time in this tournament, they ghosts of the old, unpredictable, lose-from-anywhere Pakistan showed up. Okay, Warner and Marsh started the recovery, making sure the run-rate didn’t dip after Finch fell. And then when Stoinis and Wade got together with over 80 to get in under eight overs, struck them clean, struck them big, and Pakistan just couldn’t recover.
Most runs scored in last 5 overs in a successful run chase (T20 WC)
75 Aus vs Pak Gros Islet 2010
62 Aus vs Pak Dubai 2021 *
60 SL vs Ind Gros Islet 2010
60 Pak vs SA Colombo 2012
60 NZ vs Eng Abu Dhabi 2021
