Australia vs Pakistan T20 match against Australia Live Streaming on Friday :- Pakistan will enter into the one off T20 match against Australia on Friday under stand-in captain Shoaib Malik after its regular captain Shahid Afridi was banned for two match for his ball-tempering in the last ODI of the five-match series.
This would be the only chance for Pakistan to have some consolation after their humiliation at the hands of the Aussies. It would also be providing Shoaib Malik an opportunity to come among the runs and strike claim to regain captaincy of the team which he lost to Younus Khan last year.
However, it would all depend how the team would fare under him after a bundle of on and off the field controversies with Afridi’s ball biting saga of the late.
It would be a real test for struggling Malik, who has his place in doubt to show some extra effort in the night match at the MCG on Friday. The national side is the T20 champion and would be favourite to win the match while the Australia are yet to come up to terms of this version of the game. However, the Pakistan team has this type of game a regular feature in its domestic cricket.
Apart from this, Malik has won his Sialkot Stallions the National T20 Championship title twice and for the national team the return of Imran Nazir, who is also considered the games specialist would bolster the line up.
With Umer Akmal and his elder Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Asif in the line-up the chances are the team would come up to the expectations.
On the other side, the injury worries to the home side might provide fast bowlers Shaun Tait and Dirk Nannes an opportunity to settle in the team. Who would get the chance of Friday in the Australian side would be seen on the day but Mitchell Johnson and their sensation Ryan Harris make their side a fighting unit that would entertain the Melbourne Cricket Ground attendants a rightful time to entertain.
was first posted on February 4, 2010 at 2:17 pm.
