Australia won the toss and send Pakistan into bat. Pakistan had a terrible start of the innings as Pakistan lost both their openers on just 24 runs, Arfan Majeed was bowled on 7 runs and Muhammad Jameel the in-form batsman was bowled by Raymond Moxly after scoring 3 runs.
Pakistan lost its wickets in regular intervals, the wicket of Anees Javed left Pakistan in deep trouble, he scored just 8 runs and was bowled by Peter Robinson, says a press release issued here.
Pakistan at one stage was hovering around 130 runs and 5 of the top order batsmen were returned to pavilion and Australia were anticipating restricting the World Champions Pakistan to a meagre total.
But Muhammad Zafar came at No.7 position and turned the table around, he scored 98 runs on just 53 balls and Abdul Razzaq played a captain's knock of 67 runs. They both added 140 runs for the 6th wicket partnership.
Pakistan was bowled out on 325 runs on the board in 35th over. Raymond Moxly took 3 wickets, while Peter Robinson and Bailie took 2 wickets each.
Australia in reply did well but fell short of the target of 326.
The Ausies scored 264 for the loss of 9 wickets in 40 overs. Heberley was the top scorer with 65 runs; Mathew Horseyand Lindsay Heaven scored 58 and 44 runs respectively.
Abdul Razzaq took 2 wickets while Yasir Andleeb and Waqas shared wicket a piece.
The Man of the Match was Muhammad Zafar. With this win, Pakistan has taken a 1-0 lead in the 3 ODI series and this is also the 22 one-day Internationals consecutive victory for Pakistan is the longest winning streak in International Blind Cricket.
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