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Australia played fire with fire to get into the finals of the T20 World Cup, said Shane Watson, who was very nervous for the first time as a commentator. He felt Australia were not good with ball barring Adam Zampa, and Pat Cummins would have liked Mitchell Starc to have another over in the Power play when the ball was swinging but gave credit to Glenn Maxwell and Marsh for bowling the 4 overs between them for just 31 runs which was like gold on the belter of a track.
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Watson added had previously said in the pre-match show that the wicket would be good, and it turned out to be one, and Pakistan put a good score of 176/4, and with no dew, it was like 200 score and in a knock out it was a match-winning score. And when Shaheen Shah Afridi had Finch, Watson said both Warner and Marsh made sure to kept up with the net run rate and did not allow to go up and kept playing their shots. He was very impressed with the way Warner batted, which put pressure back on the Pakistan bowlers.
But Watson said Shadab Khan bowled beautiful and made the batsman to commit a mistake and got big wickets and had Australia at 96/5 and felt it would be difficult for Australia to chase down the target as he was not sure about the finishing skills of Mathew Wade, especially.
Watson felt sorry for Hassan Ali, who felt had a bad game, but he added such things happen, and bowler can't be blamed for the loss. It was the skills of Mathew Wade and Stoinis, along with the beautiful batting wicket which saw Australia hold their nerve and seal the win.
He was proud of the way this Pakistan team played and felt they deserved to win but had to loose one game which sadly had to be the knockout game.
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