Pakistani cricket team in Australia in 2009–10

The Pakistan cricket team toured Australia for a 3-match Test series, a 5-match ODI series, and 1 Twenty20 International from 19 December 2009 to 5 February 2010.[1]

Pakistan cricket team in Australia in 2009–10
 
  Pakistan Australia
Dates 19 December 2009 – 5 February 2010
Captains Mohammad Yousuf
Shahid Afridi (5th ODI)
Shoaib Malik (T20Is)		 Ricky Ponting
Michael Clarke (T20Is)
Test series
Result Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs Salman Butt (280) Ricky Ponting (378)
Most wickets Mohammad Asif (13) Nathan Hauritz (18)
Player of the series Shane Watson (Aus)
One Day International series
Results Australia won the 5-match series 5–0
Most runs Umar Akmal (187) Cameron White (245)
Most wickets Mohammad Asif (6)
Shahid Afridi (6)
Naved-ul-Hasan (6)		 Clint McKay (14)
Player of the series Ryan Harris (Aus)
Twenty20 International series
Results Australia won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs Kamran Akmal (64) David Hussey (40)
Most wickets Umar Gul (3) Shaun Tait (3)
Player of the series Shaun Tait (Aus)

During the final ODI match, the stand-in captain, Shahid Afridi, was involved in an alleged ball tampering incident, when he was seen biting the cricket ball.[2][3][4] He was immediately called by the match referee after the match was over. There Afridi pleaded guilty to ball tampering and he was banned from two Twenty20 Internationals.[5]

During the Twenty20 International, Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait bowled the fastest delivery ever recorded in Australia (160.7 km/h).[6] Tait achieved the feat on the second ball of his first over. It is also the third fastest delivery ever recorded behind Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar.[6]

Australia registered a clean sweep by winning the Test series 3–0, the ODI series 5-0 and the only T20.

During the tour, speculation was rife that captain Mohammad Yousuf was involved in a power struggle with former skippers Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik and that team morale was low.

Following the tour, the Pakistan Cricket Board conducted an inquiry and announced that Yousuf and Younis would not be selected for the country in future, implying a life exclusion, and banned Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan for a year each. Afridi and the brothers Umar and Kamran Akmal were all fined and put on probation for six months.[7] Kamran had been dropped after the second Test because of a string of dropped catches, but spoke out against the decision and insisted that he was not dropped, while Umar was accused of disruption by feigning injury in an attempt to go on strike in solidarity.

Squads
Tests ODIs T20Is
 Australia  Pakistan[8]  Australia  Pakistan[9]  Australia  Pakistan

Tour matches

3-day tour match: Tasmania v Pakistanis - 19–21 December
19 – 21 December
Scorecard
v
437 (127.4 overs)
Salman Butt 153 (266)
JJ Krejza 3/162 (28.4 overs)
193 (67.6 overs)
GJ Bailey 50 (91)
Saeed Ajmal 4/84 (26 overs)
141/4 (33.0 overs)
Umar Akmal 55 (50)
JJ Krejza 1/27 (5 overs)
Match drawn
Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia
Umpires: Steven John (Aus) and Paul Reiffel (Aus)
  • Tasmania won the toss and elected to field.

Test series

1st Test
26 – 30 December
Scorecard
v
454/5d (128 overs)
SM Katich 98 (226)
Mohammad Asif 2/86 (27 overs)
258 (99 overs)
Misbah-ul-Haq 65* (120)
MG Johnson 3/36 (22 overs)
225/8d (73.1 overs)
SR Watson 120* (220)
Mohammad Amir 5/79 (24 overs)
251 (72 overs)
Mohammad Yousuf 61 (140)
NM Hauritz 5/101 (24 overs)
Australia won by 170 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Attendance: 60,000 (Day1), 40,000 (Day2), 37,000 (Day3)
Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Rudi Koertzen (SA)
Player of the match: SR Watson (Aus)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat

2nd Test
3 – 7 January
Scorecard
v
127 (44.2 overs)
MG Johnson 38 (57)
Mohammad Asif 6/41 (20 overs)
333 (96.5 overs)
Salman Butt 71 (164)
DE Bollinger 4/72 (21.5 overs)
381 (125.4 overs)
MEK Hussey 134* (284)
Danish Kaneria 5/151 (47.5 overs)
139 (38 overs)
Umar Akmal 49 (81)
NM Hauritz 5/53 (12 overs)
Australia won by 36 runs
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) & Billy Doctrove (WI)
Player of the match: MEK Hussey (Aus)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat
  • Rain delayed start of play on day 1
  • Bad light ended play early on day 1
  • Play resumed half-an-hour early to make up the overs lost on day 1

At an inquiry after the series was completed, the management of the Pakistan team testified that they suspected that some of the Pakistan team conspired with bookmakers in match-fixing events during this match. Pakistani wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal missed four catches and a run-out in the Australian second innings as Australia turned around a substantial first innings deficit to win the Test. However, the Australian captain Michael Clarke stated that he "certainly had no suspicions".[12] Several months later, Mazhar Majeed a man who had accepted a bribe to provide information about spot-fixing during Pakistan's summer tour of England, stated that the match had been fixed and that the fixers had made more than a million pounds as a result of Pakistan's loss from a commanding position. There has been no other corroboration of Majeed's statements.[13]

3rd Test
14 – 18 January
Scorecard
v
519/8d (142.5 overs)
RT Ponting 209 (354)
Danish Kaneria 3/189 (42.5 overs)
301 (105.4 overs)
Salman Butt 102 (234)
SM Katich 3/34 (10 overs)
219/5d (48.4 overs)
SM Katich 100 (138)
Shoaib Malik 2/16 (3.4 overs)
206 (86.2 overs)
Khurram Manzoor 77 (239)
PM Siddle 3/25 (15.2 overs)
Australia won by 231 runs
Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia
Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Rudi Koertzen (SA)
Player of the match: RT Ponting (Aus)

ODI series

1st ODI
22 January 2010
13:25 (D/N)
Scorecard
Pakistan 
274 (49.4 overs)
v
 Australia
275/5 (48.3 overs)
Salman Butt 72 (81)
SR Watson 4/36 (10 overs)
CL White 105 (88)
Mohammad Amir 1/29 (9 overs)
Australia won by 5 wickets
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus)
Player of the match: CL White (Aus)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd ODI
24 January 2010
14:25 (D/N)
Scorecard
Australia 
267/6 (50 overs)
v
 Pakistan
127 (37.3 overs)
SR Watson 69 (71)
Mohammad Amir 3/53 (9 overs)
Mohammad Yousuf 58 (94)
CJ McKay 3/15 (7.3 overs)
Australia won by 140 runs
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus)
Player of the match: SR Watson (Aus)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

3rd ODI
26 January 2010
13:55 (D/N)
Scorecard
Australia 
286/6 (50 overs)
v
 Pakistan
246 (47.4 overs)
SE Marsh 83 (113)
Naved-ul-Hasan 2/57 (10 overs)
Umar Akmal 59 (76)
RJ Harris 5/43 (10 overs)
Australia won by 40 runs.
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and SJA Taufel (Aus)
Player of the match: RJ Harris (Aus)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

4th ODI
29 January 2010
12:20 (D/N)
Scorecard
Australia 
277/8 (50 overs)
v
 Pakistan
142 (37.5 overs)
MEK Hussey 67 (75)
Mohammad Asif 3/42 (10 overs)
Umar Akmal 38 (60)
RJ Harris 5/19 (9.5 overs)
Australia won by 135 runs
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus)
Player of the match: RJ Harris (Aus)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

5th ODI
31 January 2010
12:20 (D/N)
Scorecard
Pakistan 
212 (49.3 overs)
v
 Australia
213/8 (49.2 overs)
Umar Akmal 67 (102)
CJ McKay 4/35 (9.3 overs)
RT Ponting 55 (78)
Shahid Afridi 2/31 (10 overs)
Australia won by 2 wickets
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, Australia
Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) & PR Reiffel (Aus)
Player of the match: CJ McKay (Aus)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Shahid Afridi filled in as captain after Mohammad Yousuf suffered a knee injury.
  • Afridi banned for two T20Is after ball-tampering incident.
  • A pitch invader crash tackled Khalid Latif

Twenty20 International series
5 February 2010
19:35 (D/N)
Scorecard
Australia 
127 (18.4 overs)
v
 Pakistan
125/9 (20 overs)
DJ Hussey 40 (31)
Umar Gul 3/20 (3.4 overs)
Kamran Akmal 64 (33)
SW Tait 3/13 (4 overs)
Australia won by 2 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia Attendance: 60,100
Umpires: PR Reiffel (Aus) & RJ Tucker (Aus)
Player of the match: SW Tait (Aus)

Media coverage

Television

Radio

References
  1. "Fixtures, Schedule: Pakistan tour of Australia 2009–10". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  2. "Australia complete one-day series sweep over Pakistan". bbc.co.uk. 31 January 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  3. "Controversy mars Australia win". metro.co.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  4. "Shahid Afridi in ball-tampering scandal during wild night at the WACA". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  5. "Afridi banned for two T20s for ball-tampering". Cricinfo. 31 January 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  6. "Australia beat Pakistan in thrilling Twenty20 match". bbc.co.uk. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
  7. "Rana, Malik get one-year bans, Younis and Yousuf axed from teams". Cricinfo. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
  8. Osman Samiuddin (8 December 2009). "Mohammad Yousuf retained captain for Australia". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  9. "Younis Khan returns for Australia ODIs". ESPNcricinfo. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
  10. Cricinfo staff (15 December 2009). "Mohammad Sami recalled for tour of Australia". Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
  11. Cricinfo staff (6 January 2010). "Pakistan rush Sarfraz Ahmed to Australia". Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
  12. Lalor, Peter (20 May 2010). "SCG Test between Pakistan and Australia may have been fixed". Herald Sun.
  13. "Scandal casts doubt on Sydney Test win". www.abc.net.au. 29 August 2010.
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