Pakistan cricket team in Australia in 1989β90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 1989 β March 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Australia won the: 3-Test series 1β0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Player of theββseries | Wasim Akram | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Pakistan national cricket team toured Australia in the 1989β90 season, under the captaincy of Imran Khan. The series set a Pakistan team, regarded as one of the strongest in the world against an Australian team returning from an unexpectedly successful tour of England. The series was marred by, "a series of incidents." And conflicts, including walk off by the Pakistani players during tour match against Victoria in protest at an umpire's ruling. The three Test series was won by Australia 1β0.
The touring party consisted of Imran Khan (captain), Aamer Malik, Aaqib Javed, Abdul Qadir, Ijaz Ahmed, Javed Miandad, Mansoor Akhtar, Maqsood Rana, Mushtaq Ahmed, Nadeem Ghauri, Rameez Raja, Saeed Anwar, Saleem Malik, Saleem Yousuf, Shoaib Mohammad, Tauseef Ahmed, Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram.
Summary of resultsβ»
Pakistan played 17 games during their tour, losing nine and "winning five with three draws." Six of these were first class cricket matches and Pakistan went without a win - including the three Test matches which saw one defeatββto Australia and two draws.
1st Testβ»
12β16 January
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Australia won by 92 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: PJ McConnell (Aus) and RJ Evans (Aus) Player of the match: Wasim Akram (Pak) |
2nd Testβ»
19β23 January
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Match drawn
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Umpires: AR Crafter (Aus) and LJ King (Aus) Player of the match: Wasim Akram (Pak) |
3rd Testβ»
3β8 February
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Match drawn
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Umpires: AR Crafter (Aus) and PJ McConnell (Aus) Player of the match: MA Taylor (Aus) |
- The match was extended by one day after 3, "4 and 6 February were washed out."
Other matchesβ»
Pakistan also competed in a tri-nation ODI tournament involving Australia and Sri Lanka they won 5 of their 8 round robin matches. In the "best of three final with Australia," they lost 2β0.
Referencesβ»
- ^ Derriman, Philip, ed. (1990). The ABC Australian Cricket Almanac. Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ISBN 0-7333-0064-2.
- ^ "Is Keshav Maharaj only the second South African bowlerββto take a Test hat-trick?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
External sourcesβ»
Further readingβ»
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, AndrΓ© Deutsch, 1993
- Playfair Cricket Annual 1990
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1990