Live Cricket Score, Pakistan (Pak) vs Australia (Aus), ICC World T20: Pakistan take on Australia in Mohali
Pakistan take on Australia in a must-win ICC World Twenty20 clash in Mohali on Friday. With only one win under their belt, the Shahid Afridi-led unit would like to collect crucial two points and then hope Australia beat India, but not with a heavy margin. Catch live cricket scores and live cricket updates from the match in Mohali here. (STATS || POINTS TABLE || FIXTURES)
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The build-up
Strugglers slugfest on the cards in Mohali
Live Cricket Score, Pakistan vs Australia, World T20: Steve Smith poses before the team poses for an official photograph at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on Thursday. (Source: Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
Even at the best of times, Pakistan are a divided camp. If you needed a proof of that, Shoaib Malik gave it on Thursday. “In the 2009 (Pakistani) team (that won the WorldT20 in England), six of us were not talking during the World Cup, but still we won. When you lose, a lot of people start talking this should have happened or that should not have not happened. But, in 2009 it was so obvious, six of us were not talking,” Malik revealed at the press conference at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium.
We have to play better: Steve Smith
Live Cricket Score, Pakistan vs Australia, World T20: Australia have been the most successful team in the 50-over World Cup but are yet to win the T20 showpiece event. (Source: Reuters)
Australia will have to play better cricket than what they have managed to do so far in the World T20 to have a shot at reaching the semifinals, captain Steve Smith said on Thursday.
There is bad mood rising in the Pakistan camp
Live Cricket Score, Pakistan vs Australia, World T20: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis during a training session in Mohali on Wednesday. (Source: Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
It’s a mood story: A bad mood story.
Waqar Younis’s tone at the press conference after the 22-run loss to New Zealand at the PCA Stadium late on Monday, wasn’t as much sarcastic as it was bilious. To a more detached mind, it might have felt a bit of an over-reaction given that the loss, Pakistan’s second in the tournament, hasn’t completely shut the door on them.
There is no groupism in the team: Shehzad
Live Cricket Score, Pakistan vs Australia, World T20: Ahmed Shehzad said that after reciting the Kalma he swears he tried his best to secure victory.(Source: AP)
Pakistan’s experienced opener, Ahmed Shehzad has squashed speculations of groupism in the team, saying he didn’t under-performed deliberately during the World Twenty20 match against New Zealand to undermine skipper Shahid Afridi.
