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The highest individual score in the three-match ODI series by an Australian batter was 49, which Josh Inglis scored in the first match played at MCG.
No Australian batter was able to score a half-century in the three-match ODI series against Pakistan. (Picture Credit: AFP)
Australian men’s cricket team players produced a forgetful show with the bat in the three-match ODI series against Pakistan, which the Men in Green won with a scoreline of 2-1 on Sunday (November 10) after getting the better of the hosts by 8 wickets in the third and final ODI match played at Perth Stadium.
The Australian batters, after being invited to bat first by Mohammad Rizwan in the series decider, could only manage to score 140 runs for the loss of 10 wickets in 31.5 overs.
Fast bowling all-rounder Sean Abbott, who came out to bat at No. 8, top-scored for the hosts by making 30 runs from 41 balls, and opener Matthew Short contributed 22 runs from 30 deliveries.
In the second ODI as well, Australian batters had no answer to questions posed by the Haris Rauf-led Pakistan pace attack. The Aussies were dismissed for 163 runs at Adelaide Oval during the second ODI played on Friday (November 8), with Steve Smith topping the batter’s chart by scoring 35 runs from 48 balls.
Whereas in the first ODI, which Australia won by two wickets in Melbourne on November 4, Inglis top-scored by making 49 runs from 42 balls in the 204-run chase. None of the Australian batters in the three matches was able to score a half-century, which has led them to create an unwanted record.
Highest score by Australian batters in ODI series
- Josh Inglis – 49 (1st ODI)
- Steve Smith – 44 (1st ODI)
- Steve Smith – 35 (2nd ODI)
- Pat Cummins – 32 (1st ODI)
- Sean Abbott – 30 (3rd ODI)
It is the first time in history that Australian batters have failed to score a half-century in a bilateral ODI series.
Former captain Smith, who played in the first two ODIs, finished as the top scorer for the six-time ODI World Cup winners by amassing a total of 79 runs, whereas wicketkeeper-batter Inglis scored 74 runs in three matches. Cummins and Abbott are third and fourth on the list of leading run scorers for Australia with 45 and 43 runs in two matches each, followed by Matthew Short (42) and Jake Fraser-McGurk (36).
All-rounder Glenn Maxwell, who holds the record for scoring most runs in an ODI match for the Australian team, played all three matches but could only score 0, 16, and 0 runs.
