Dave Warner, Marcus Labuschagne and Steve Smith led the Australian bowling attack - with little success - in Australia’s final World Cup warm-up.
Australia have concluded their World Cup preparations by firing with the bat, experimenting with the ball and seeing off Pakistan by 14 runs in their final warm-up match at Hyderabad.
Babar Azam, the world’s No 1-ranked one-day batter, stroked a classy 90 after Pakistan’s top three - Fakhar Zaman , Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique - failed to fire. Marnus Labuschagne struck three times but struggled to find his length, Steve Smith was no threat with his experimental offspinners and David Warner mixed half-trackers with head-high full tosses.
With 87 required from the last 13 overs, Australia’s frontline bowlers returned to test themselves in the match scenario and succeeded.Mohammad Nawaz kept Pakistan in the hunt before Labuschagne returned to the attack in the 48th over and ended the match.Earlier, Glenn Maxwell rocketed back to form with his most substantial innings in several months while Cameron Green and Josh Inglis pressed their claims for World Cup middle-order berths.
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