The Pakistan cricket team toured Australia for a 3-match Test series, a 5-match ODI series, and 1 Twenty20 International from 19 December 2009 to 5 February 2010.
During the final ODI match, the stand-in captain, Shahid Afridi, was involved in an alleged ball tampering incident, when he was seen biting the cricket ball. He was immediately called by the match referee after the match was over. There Afridi pleaded guilty to ball tampering and he was banned from two Twenty20 Internationals.
During the Twenty20 International, Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait bowled the fastest delivery ever recorded in Australia (160.7 km/h). Tait achieved the feat on the second ball of his first over. It is also the third fastest delivery ever recorded behind Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar.
Australia registered a clean sweep by winning the Test series 3–0, the ODI series 5–0 and the only T20I.
During the tour, speculation was rife that captain Mohammad Yousuf was involved in a power struggle with former skippers Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik and that team morale was low.
Following the tour, the Pakistan Cricket Board conducted an inquiry and announced that Yousuf and Younis would not be selected for the country in future, implying a life exclusion, and banned Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan for a year each. Afridi and the brothers Umar and Kamran Akmal were all fined and put on probation for six months. Kamran had been dropped after the second Test because of a string of dropped catches, but spoke out against the decision and insisted that he was not dropped, while Umar was accused of disruption by feigning injury in an attempt to go on strike in solidarity.
Squads TestsODIsT20Is Ricky Ponting (c) Michael Clarke Brad Haddin (wk) Simon Katich Michael Hussey Shane Watson Nathan Hauritz Mitchell Johnson Peter Siddle Phillip Hughes Marcus North Doug Bollinger Clint McKay Mohammad Yousuf (c) Salman Butt Khurram Manzoor Imran Farhat Misbah-ul-Haq Shoaib Malik Fawad Alam Faisal Iqbal Kamran Akmal (wk) Danish Kaneria Saeed Ajmal Umar Gul Mohammad Asif Mohammad Amir Abdur Rauf Umar Akmal Mohammad Sami Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Ricky Ponting (c) Michael Clarke Doug Bollinger Nathan Hauritz Mike Hussey Mitchell Johnson Cameron White Clint McKay Brad Haddin (wk) James Hopes Peter Siddle Shane Watson Shaun Marsh Adam Voges Ryan Harris Shaun Tait Mohammad Yousuf (c) Shahid Afridi Umar Akmal Imran Farhat Fawad Alam Younis Khan Saeed Ajmal Umar Gul Kamran Akmal (wk) Shoaib Malik Khalid Latif Mohammad Amir Naved-ul-Hasan Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Salman Butt Rao Iftikhar Mohammad Asif Michael Clarke (c) Cameron White Travis Birt Dirk Nannes Ryan Harris David Hussey Mitchell Johnson Shaun Marsh Brad Haddin (wk) Steve Smith Shaun Tait David Warner Shane Watson Shoaib Malik (c) Fawad Alam Iftikhar Anjum Mohammad Amir Imran Nazir Khalid Latif Mohammad Asif Naved-ul-Hasan Kamran Akmal (wk) Saeed Ajmal Salman Butt Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Umar Akmal Umar Gul
Tour matches
3-day tour match: Tasmania v Pakistanis - 19–21 December
Test series
1st Test
2nd Test
At an inquiry after the series was completed, the management of the Pakistan team testified that they suspected that some of the Pakistan team conspired with bookmakers in match-fixing events during this match. Pakistani wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal missed four catches and a run-out in the Australian second innings as Australia turned around a substantial first innings deficit to win the Test. However, the Australian captain Ricky Ponting stated that he "certainly had no suspicions". Several months later, Mazhar Majeed a man who had accepted a bribe to provide information about spot-fixing during Pakistan's summer tour of England, stated that the match had been fixed and that the fixers had made more than a million pounds as a result of Pakistan's loss from a commanding position. There has been no other corroboration of Majeed's statements.
3rd Test
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
Twenty20 International series
Media coverage
Television Nine Network (live) – Australia Geo Super (live) – Pakistan PTV Home (live) – Pakistan Sky Sports (live) (HD) – United Kingdom and Ireland Star Cricket (live) –India and Bangladesh ESPN (live) – India (3rd Test & few ODI's) SKY Sport (live) (HD) – New Zealand Supersport (live) – South Africa Eurosport (live) – Europe DirecTV (live) – USA Caribbean Media Corporation (live) – Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and Antigua StarHub (pay per view) – Malaysia and Singapore ShowSports (live) – Middle East
Radio ABC Radio (live) – Australia Humara FM 94.6 (live) – Pakistan
References
External links Pakistan in Australia 2009/10 from Cricketarchive