The Pakistan Under-16 cricket team on Sunday night left here for Dubai to take on Australia Under-16 in a series of five 50-over-a-side matches and one Twenty20 fixture at the ICC Academy. The series will start with the first 50-over match on Wednesday, January 9 and culminate with the T20 game on Sunday, January 20. This is Australia's return visit after Pakistan had toured Melbourne in April 2018. Australia had clinched the five-match series 3-2, while Pakistan had won the one-off T20 game by seven wickets.
The Pakistan side will be led by Umer Eman, the Lahore-born left-handed batsman and leg-spinner, who, along with Aaliyan Mehmood, Rizwan Mehmood, Samir Saqib, had also toured Australia last year.
This series is part of the PCB's planning and strategy to provide maximum opportunities and exposure to the budding teenage cricketers in the build up to the next ICC U19 Cricket World Cup, which will be held in South Africa in 2020.
Pakistan Under-16 side: Umer Eman (captain), Aaliyan Mehmood, Ahmed Khan, Ali Asfand, Ali Hassan, Aseer Mughal, Ayaz Shah, Faisal Akram, Farhad Khan, Haseebullah Khan, Kashif Ali (vice-captain), Mohammad Shehzad, Rizwan Mahmood, Sameer Saqib and Zubair Shinwari (wicketkeeper).
Team management: Taimoor Azam Khan (Manager), Mohammad Ashraf (coach), Hussain Khosa (Assistant coach), Rehan Khalid (physiotherapist), Imranullah (trainer) and Usman Hashmi (analyst).
SCOREBOARD
India first innings 622-7 declared (C. Pujara 193, R. Pant 159 no, R Jadeja 81; N. Lyon 4-178)
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Australia 1st innings (overnight 236-6)
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M. Harris b Jadeja 79
U. Khawaja c Pujara b K. Yadav 27
M. Labuschagne c Rahane b Shami 38
S. Marsh c Rahane b Jadeja 8
T. Head c & b K. Yadav 20
P. Handscomb b Bumrah 37
T. Paine b Yadav 5
P. Cummins b Shami 25
M. Starc not out 29
N. Lyon lbw Yadav 0
J. Hazlewood b Yadav 21
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Extras: (b4, lb2, w5) 11
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Total (10 wickets, 104.5 overs) 300
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Fall of wickets: 1-72 (Khawaja), 2-128 (Harris), 3-144 (S.Marsh), 4-152 (Labuschagne), 5-192 (Head), 6-198 (Paine), 7-236 (Cummins), 8-257 (Handscomb), 9-258 (Lyon), 10-300 (Hazlewood)
Bowling: Shami 19-2-58-2, Bumrah 21-5-62-1, Jadeja 32-11-73-2, Yadav 31.5-6-99-5, Vihari 1-0-2-0
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Australia 2nd innings
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M. Harris not out 2
U. Khawaja not out 4
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Total: (0 wkts, 4 overs) 6
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