Date-stamped : 31 Oct94 - 10:43 3 Nation One-day Tournament FINALS Australia v Pakistan, Lahore, 30 October 1994 Medium pacer Glenn McGrath ripped through Pakistan`s innings as Australia won the Triangular Series match by 64 runs on Sunday. McGrath, in his career best in a one-day game, captured five for 52 and won the 1,000 dollars man of the match award. Captain Mark Taylor bagged 16,000 dollars for Australia while Salim Malik of runners-up Pakistan took home 8,000 dollars. The third parti- cipant South Africa ended their tour losing all their league matches. Malik sent the Australians into bat first on an easy and dry wicket, and they dominated Pakistan from the start. They piled up a massive 269 for 5 as the opening pair of Taylor and Michael Slater cracked 121. Taylor made 59 and Slater hit 66, punishing anything overpitched or short of length with contempt. Their third half century of the day came from Michael Bevan who scored an unbeaten 53. He added 43 runs for the sixth wicket with debu- tant Phil Emery who remained not out on 11. Chasing a formidable target of 270 to win at 5.38 runs an over, the World Champions Pakistan were bowled out for 205 runs in 46.4 overs. The destroyer of the Pakistan innings was medium-fast bowler McGrath while Damien Fleming bagged three wickets. For Pakistan Basit Ali put on a brave 63 in 64 balls, hitting 5 fours and two sixes off McGrath and Mark Waugh. Malik made 35 and Akram 26. Rashid Latif, who earlier in the day injured his left thumb while keeping wicket, made 27 for the last wicket with Aaqib Javed but it was all in a lost cause. Malik also completed his 5,000 runs in one dayers to become the second Pakistani to reach the figure after Javed Miandad. Contributed by vasa (Vasanthan.Dasan@Central.Sun.COM) ====> more Australian openers Michael Slater, and Mark Taylor got the Aus- tralians of to a good start with a 121 opening partnership. Pak- istani Salim Malik broke the partnership with his leg-spins, stumping Slater than holding a return catch to remove Taylor. Michael Bevan gave the Australians a competitive total with a dashing, unbeaten half-century. The Australians continued their good work in the Pakistani in- nings when swing bowler Damien Fleming removed openers Aamir Sohail, and Saeed Anwar cheaply. Glenn McGrath then tore through the middle overs, with five scalps, including dashing batsman Inzamam-Ul-Haq. Fleming chipped in again with the scalp of cap- tain Salim Malik. Mark Waugh got the last two wickets. The Australians were hit seriously with injury, with veteran batsman David Boon plagued by a gastric complaint, and all- rounder Steve Waugh suffering from a torn shoulder muscle, res- tricting him to bowling only two overs. He is not expected to bowl again for at least another fortnight. When victory for the Australians was apparent at the 35th over, in the Pakistani innings, the 35,000 strong crowd became deathly silent. Contributed by Kai.Koon.Ng (kk_ng@*.utas.edu.au) ====> more Michael Bevan and Damien Fleming, the discoveries of the tour, today steered Australia to a resounding 64-run victory in the one-day final against Pakistan in a packed but progressively more restive Gaddafi Stadium. Australia, having scored 5-269, dismissed the home side for 205 in 46.5 overs. After Bevan had made a blistering, unbeaten half-century to revi- talise Australia`s sagging innings, Fleming, the scourge of the left-handers, then dismissed Pakistan`s openers Saeed Anwar and Aamir Sohail. Glenn McGrath added two more top-order wickets, courtesy of wicketkeeper Phil Emery`s first two catches for Aus- tralia, to put Australia in early control. Even the almost mandatory Pakistani fightback, courtesy of a 61- run middle-order partnership between Basit Ali (63) and Wasim Akram (23) was not enough this time, with McGrath the terminator of both innings. Nothing can be presumed in cricket matches in this country, but the crowd had given up on the home team and instead started to rain fruit and litter down on Shane Warne on the fine-leg boun- dary. In a bizarre sidelight to the match, the Pakistan players were asked to make a pledge to manager Intikhab Alam that they had not been involved in betting on today`s match, according to a report in this morning`s Urdu newspaper, the Daily Jang. The radical request follows a spate of reports Pakistan had been involved in betting scandals on recent overseas tours. The Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan promised an investigation, then dropped it, saying the allegations were spurious and mischievous. Victory for Australia ensured that they did not come home empty- handed, and catapulted them on an emotional high into Tuesday`s third Test here, which they must win to tie the series. Australia`s 5-269 promised to be much more - and much less - at different times during the innings. Nonetheless, it was the highest team score of the tournament. Michael Slater and Mark Taylor launched the innings with an open- ing stand of 121 in just 90 minutes that stilled the drums, muf- fled the trumpets and silenced the chorus of shrill cries from the ladies` stand. They took Akram`s first over, the only maiden of the innings, to gauge the speed of the pitch, then played him and Aaqib Javed with ease, and greeted Waqar Younis with absolute contempt, taking 21 from his first two overs. Slater, missed at slip at five, gave full expression to his na- tural flair, most spectacularly when sweeping Aamir Sohail for four to reach 50, hitting the shot so hard that he fell, rolled over and in one continuous action regained his feet and jogged off down the pitch. Taylor was less extravagant, but just as ef- fective, and when he reached 50 in the 22nd over, Australia had the makings of a score of more than 300. The unlikely agent of change was the Pakistan captain, Salim Malik, who took the first three wickets, stranding Slater metres down the pitch, fooling Taylor with a ball that dipped in flight and causing Mark Waugh to slog all around an off-stump ball. In- convenienced by the fall of these wickets, Australia`s run-rate slipped to four an over, and when Steve Waugh missed Sohail`s straight ball and David Boon pulled at Waqar for Malik to take a finely judged catch over his shoulder at mid-wicket, the game seemed up for Australia. But that was reckoning without the special talent of Bevan, who is with Fleming already the find of this tour, and now played his most important one-day innings yet. His gift for batting has long been obvious, but it is now governed by a presence of mind that allows him to remain cool in the hottest moments. The talented New South Welshman was master enough today to cream two boundaries through the off field in the last over of the innings to reach 50, from Akram, no less. He remained 53 not out from merely 42 balls. Thanks Greg Baum, Sydney Morning Herald. Contributed by David.Mar (mar@physics.su.oz.au)