Australia national cricket team against Pakistan in the 2009 season

The game series of the Australian national cricket team against Pakistan in the season 2009 took place from April 22 to May 7, 2009 in the United Arab Emirates . The international cricket tour was part of the 2009 international cricket season and included five ODIs and one Twenty20 . Australia won the ODI series 3-2 while Pakistan won the Twenty20.

prehistory

Australia was initially scheduled to tour Pakistan in March 2008, but this was canceled due to security concerns. After the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on their tour in Pakistan , this was the first tour that Pakistan did. Australia previously did a tour in South Africa .

Stages

Abu Dhabi Dubai

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on February 27, 2009.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium	Abu Dhabi	20,000	3rd - 5th ODI
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	Dubai	25,000	1st & 2nd ODI; 1. T20

Squad lists

Pakistan named its roster on April 6, Australia on April 8, 2009.

ODI
Pakistan	Australia
Younis Khan ( K ) Shahid Afridi Saeed Ajmal Shoaib Akhtar Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Fawad Alam Iftikhar Anjum Yasir Arafat Salman Butt Umar Gul Misbah ul-Haq Nasir Jamshed Shoaib Malik Ahmed Shehzad Sohail Tanvir	Michael Clarke ( K ) Doug Bollinger Nathan Bracken Stuart Clark Callum Ferguson Brett Geeves Brad Haddin ( wk ) Nathan Hauritz Ben Hilfenhaus James Hopes David Hussey Ben Laughlin Brett Lee Shaun Marsh Andrew Symonds Shane Watson

One-day internationals

First ODI in Dubai

April 22nd scorecard	Dubai	Australia 168 (38.5)	-	Pakistan 171-6 (44.4)
		Pakistan wins with 4 wickets

Second ODI in Dubai

April 24th scorecard	Dubai	Pakistan 207 (46.2)	-	Australia 208-4 (45.1)
		Australia wins with 6 wickets

Pakistan was fined for playing too slowly. After the Pakistani bowler Saeed Ajmal was absent as a result of technical warnings, the Pakistani federation fined him within the team.

Third ODI in Abu Dhabi

April 27 scorecard	Abu Dhabi	Australia 198-7 (50)	-	Pakistan 171 (47.1)
		Australia wins with 27 runs

Fourth ODI in Abu Dhabi

May 1st scorecard	Abu Dhabi	Pakistan 197 (48.4)	-	Australia 200-2 (44.2)
		Australia wins with 8 wickets

Fifth ODI in Abu Dhabi

May 3rd scorecard	Abu Dhabi	Australia 250-4 (50)	-	Pakistan 254-3 (47)
		Pakistan wins with 7 wickets

Twenty20 International in Dubai

May 7th scorecard	Dubai	Australia 108 (19.5)	-	Pakistan 109-3 (16.2)
		Pakistan wins with 7 wickets

Australians Brad Haddin and Shane Watson were fined after making it clear during the game that they disagreed with the referee's decisions.

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Shane Watson	Australia	5	5	271	90.33	116 *	1	1
Michael Clarke	Australia	5	5	235	78.33	100 *	1	1
Kamran Akmal	Pakistan	5	5	192	48.00	116 *	1	0
Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	5	5	161	53.66	76 *	0	1
Salman Butt	Pakistan	5	5	112	22.40	57	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	5	47	10	17.40	6/38	1	0
Nathan Hauritz	Australia	5	46	8th	21.37	3/41	0	0
Umar Gul	Pakistan	4th	35.5	6th	30.16	3/38	0	0
Doug Bollinger	Australia	3	25.4	5	20.20	5/35	1	0
Michael Clarke	Australia	5	14th	4th	15.75	3/15	0	0
Andrew Symonds	Australia	5	18th	4th	23.50	2/12	0	0
James Hopes	Australia	5	28	4th	28.75	2/22	0	0
Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	5	46	4th	39.50	2/19	0	0

Twenty20
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Kamran Akmal	Pakistan	1	1	59		59 *	0	1
Shane Watson	Australia	1	1	33	33.00	33	0	0
Brad Haddin	Australia	1	1	24	24.00	24	0	0
Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	1	1	24	24.00	24	0	0
Marcus North	Australia	1	1	20th	20.00	20th	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Umar Gul	Pakistan	1	4th	4th	2.00	4/8	0	0
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	1	4th	3	4.66	3/14	0	0
Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	1	3	2	7.00	2/14	0	0
Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	1	3.5	1	19.00	1/19	0	0
Ben Hilfenhaus	Australia	1	4th	1	20.00	1/20	0	0
Nathan Hauritz	Australia	1	3.2	1	20.00	1/20	0	0
Brett Lee	Australia	1	4th	1	22.00	1/22	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
ODI	Michael Clarke

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. ODI	Shahid Afridi
2. ODI	Andrew Symonds
3. ODI	Michael Clarke
4. ODI	Doug Bollinger
5. ODI	Kamran Akmal
1. T20	Shahid Afridi Umar Gul

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Australia and Pakistan to play five ODIs in UAE . Cricinfo. February 17, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
2. ^ Shoaib included in squad to face Australia . Cricinfo. April 6, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
3. ↑ Lee speeds back into Australia's one-day squad . Cricinfo. April 8, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
4. ↑ Pakistan penalized for slow over-rate . Cricinfo. April 26, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
5. ↑ PCB fines Ajmal for outburst . Cricinfo. April 29, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
6. ^ Haddin and Watson fined for dissent . Cricinfo. May 8, 2009. Accessed December 31, 2015.
7. ↑ Australia v Pakistan ODI Series, 2009 / Records / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
8. ↑ Australia v Pakistan ODI Series, 2009 / Records / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
9. ↑ Only T20I: Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), May 7, 2009 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
10. ↑ Australia in United Arab Emirates 2008/09 (Only Twenty20) ( English ) Cricket Archives. Retrieved April 27, 2016.