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Intikhab Alam talked about a spin trap for the Australians before the series, I was skeptical about the existence of any such plan as Intikhab’s plan of a pace trap failed miserably against SriLanka, but this time my skepticism proved to be wrong.

Afridi and Ajmal bowled magnificiently, the Australians had no clue about their variations. Ajmal was literally unplayable he mixed his doosra’s and off spin intelligently, the inexperienced Australians failed miserably to read him.

Australia were 51/1 at the end of 11 overs, this is when I stepped out of the house for 30 mins, In the 12th over Afridi was being introduced into the attack, I knew he will provide Pakistan with a breakthrough but never realized that I am going to miss probably one of his best bowling performance by the time I came back Australia were 109/6, Afridi took three wickets and Ajmal took 1 the match was already wrapped up for Pakistan the rest was just a formality. The Australian wickets kept on falling like dried up leaves and Afridi finished up with his career best figures of 6/38 from 10 overs, Ajmal finished up with 2/19 from 10 overs.

Australians were thoroughly punished for their arrogance and the disrespect they showed to the Pakistan team by resting their major players. They also showed their vulnerability against quality spin bowling their Young players are too inexperienced and lack in skill.

Pakistan started their run chase over cautiously except for Afridi and Akmal nobody else tried to play any extravagant strokes, Pakistan kept on losing wickets but Australia never had any chance to win this match.

Afridi’s innings of 24 from 16 balls took the match away from Australia, Pakistan’s overall run chase was a bit nervous and less exciting as they were over cautious and in no mood of taking any undue risk.

Afridi was declared the man of the match.