Pakistan last won an ODI series in Australia back in 2002.
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Get the exciting match between AUS vs PAK Fantasy 11 Prediction, Cricket Tips, Playing XI, Pitch & Injury Updates For 1st ODI, Pakistan tour of Australia. Australia will take on Pakistan in the first ODI of the three-match series on Monday, November 4, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne. The second and the third match will be played in Adelaide and Perth, respectively. A three-match T20I series is scheduled to be played just after the completion of the T20I series. Pakistan will travel to Zimbabwe after the completion of this tour and will play a three-match ODI and T20I series each. Australia will take on India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after this series.
Pat Cummins will lead the Australian side in the ODI series and will be playing his first ODI game since leading the side to win the ODI World Cup last year. The pace trio of Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Mitchell Starc will be in action for the first time since the final. Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh have not been named in the squad. Jake Fraser-McGurk and Matthew Short are the two openers in the team. Most of the players who were a part of the team that toured England in September have retained their places in the squad. Australia won the five-match series 3-2 against England.
Mohammad Rizwan has been appointed the permanent captain white-ball captain of the Pakistan side. He will replace Babar Azam who announced his relinquishment recently. It will also be the first tour for Jason Gillespie as the head coach of the team. Gillespie has replaced Gary Kirsten as the head coach of the team. A total of six uncapped players have been named in the squad for the ODI and T20I series. Agha Salman has been named as the vice-captain of the side.
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Match Information- AUS vs PAK Fantasy 11 Prediction
Probable PlayingXI
Australia
J Fraser-McGurk, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, MW Short, GJ Maxwell, AM Hardie, Sean Abbott, JP Inglis, Pat Cummins(C), Mitchell Starc, A Zampa
Bench: Cooper Connolly, MP Stoinis, Xavier Bartlett, W Sutherland, Josh Hazlewood, LR Morris
Pakistan
Abdullah Shafique, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Agha Salman, Irfan Khan, Mohammad Rizwan(C), S Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, M Hasnain
Bench:Haseebullah Khan, Arafat Minhas, Faisal Akram, Aamer Jamal
Injury News- (Will be added when there is an update)
Weather Report- Scattered Clouds
Win Prediction- Australia
Pitch Condition- Batting
Avg 1st Inning Score- 250
Pitch Report
Captains- 9
Mohammad Rizwan PAK | wk
The newly appointed skipper has played 14 ODI matches against Australia and has made 361 runs, including two centuries. He was one of the most prolific run-scorers last year for Pakistan in ODIs and finished with 1023 runs to his name at an average of 63.93.
Glenn Maxwell AUS | all
Maxwell is 56 runs away from scoring 4000 runs in ODIs. He has picked 75 wickets as well at an average of 5.44. In the ODI series against England, he took five wickets in four games at an average of 21 and made 39 runs.
Matthew Short AUS | all
Short recently played a knock of 80 runs off 58 deliveries in the Domestic One-Day Cup for Victoria against New South Wales. In the ODI series against England, Short made 101 runs at a strike rate of 129.48 in four games.
Avoid Player Message- 7.5
Mohammad Hasnain- PAK | BOWL- 7.5