Australia hammer Pakistan by 94 runs to win final T20

Australia registered a comprehensive 94 run win over Pakistan in the final Twenty20 match at Dubai Stadium on Monday, but lost the three-match series 2-1.

Batting first Australia put up a challenging 169-run target, with David Warner smashing 59 in 34-balls, which included six sixes and a four.

Shane Watson too hammered five sixes and a boundary during his 32-ball 47, and shared a record 111 run opening stand for Australia in the final T20 match of the series.

In reply Pakistan were bowled out 74, which is the joint lowest by a Test playing country in all Twenty20s, and this was also their biggest defeat in the history of the shortest form of the game, Sports24 reports.

Pakistan, who won the first match by seven wickets and the second in the Super over, never looked the same side as they lost wickets at regular intervals, the first five falling by the sixth over with the score on 19.

Only Nasir Jamshed (17), Yasir Arafat (15) and Abdul Razzaq (13) could reach double figures as Australian pacemen Mitchell Starc (3-11) and Pat Cummins (3-15) ran through the Pakistan batting line-up.

Razzaq and Arafat shared the highest partnership of the innings with 20, taking Pakistan past the lowest total in all Twenty20 i.e. 67 by Kenya against Canada in Belfast in 2008.

Saeed Ajmal finished with 2-19, taking his tally to 60 wickets, which is the most by any bowler in Twenty20 cricket.

The two teams now head to Sri Lanka where the fourth edition of the World Twenty20 begins from September 18.