{"id":2051,"date":"2022-03-26T02:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T02:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/australia-dismiss-pakistan-in-final-session-to-win-series-the-indian-express\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T02:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T02:01:56","slug":"australia-dismiss-pakistan-in-final-session-to-win-series-the-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/australia-dismiss-pakistan-in-final-session-to-win-series-the-indian-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia dismiss Pakistan in final session to win series &#8211; The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan failed Friday to hold out in the last session of the third and final cricket Test which Australia won by 115 runs to clinch the series 1-0. The hosts were dismissed for 235 in their second innings on a worn-out wicket as Australia enjoyed a successful end to its first test series in Pakistan since 1998.<br \/>Resuming on 73-0, and entering the final session at 190-5, Pakistan collapsed against veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon, who got plenty of turn and bounce from a fifth-day wicket and finished with 5-83 from 37 overs.<br \/>Australia win the Benaud-Qadir Trophy after winning the third Test by 115 runs! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PAKvAUS?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#PAKvAUS<\/a><br \/>\u2014 cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketcomau\/status\/1507317604838371340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 25, 2022<\/a><br \/>Australia was rewarded for setting Pakistan a challenging target of 351 after boldly declaring its second innings at 227-3. Pakistan had conceded a decisive 123-run lead after scoring 268 in its first innings in reply to Australia&#8217;s 391.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IExpressCricket\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7803526 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg?resize=96,96 96w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg?resize=150,150 150w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7803526 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg?resize=96,96 96w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg?resize=150,150 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><br \/>Lyon bowled an unchanged marathon spell of 28 overs on the last day. Pacer Pat Cummins clean bowled No. 11 Naseem Shah to finish off Pakistan. Opener Imam-ul-Haq (70) and captain Babar Azam (55) scored fighting half centuries but the rest of Pakistan&#8217;s batters crumbled against the menacing reverse swing of Cummins, who took 3-23, and the sharp spin of Lyon.<br \/>The first test ended in a tame draw at Rawalpindi where the pitch was rated as below average by the ICC. Babar\u2019s brilliant 196 in more than 10 hours denied Australia a win at Karachi where Pakistan played out 171.4 overs in more than five sessions and forced an epic draw.<br \/><strong> \ud83d\uddde <em>Subscribe Now:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/subscribe\/?startDate=20-10-2021&#038;productName=2021_001_digital&#038;groupName=subscriptionPremium&#038;utm_source=story&#038;utm_medium=popup&#038;utm_campaign=aarontest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get Express Premium to access our in-depth reporting, explainers and opinions<\/a> \ud83d\uddde\ufe0f <\/strong><br \/>For all the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/section\/sports\/\">Sports News<\/a>, download <a class=\"click-event\" id=\"IE_app_download\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.page.link\/aeiu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Express App.<\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/meta-stories-of-strength-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"padding: 0 0 15px 5px\" src=\"\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2021\/08\/300_100.gif\" width=\"295\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/events\/migration-in-india\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"padding: 0 0 15px 5px\" src=\"\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2021\/08\/300x100-4.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/cricket\/australia-dismisses-pakistan-in-final-session-to-win-series-7836376\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan failed Friday to hold out in the last session of the third and final cricket Test which Australia won by 115 runs to clinch the series 1-0. The hosts were dismissed for 235 in their second innings on a worn-out wicket as Australia enjoyed a successful end to its first test series in Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}