Ka taƙaita labarin:  Ostiraliya ta kai wasan kusa da na karshe na gasar cin kofin duniya yayin da ta doke Pakistan da kwallaye shida a ranar Juma'a. A karkashin hasken Adelaide Oval, Rahat Ali ya fadi ya zama juyin juya hali yayin da Ostiraliya ta bi sahun kasa da 213 da Pakistan ta kafa. Josh Hazlewood ya dauki 4-35 don ƙuntata gasar cin kofin duniya ta 1992 zuwa irin wannan ƙarancin jimillar kafin Shane Watson ya buga 64 wanda ba a doke shi ba don ba wa masu karɓar bakuncin nasara a cikin ƙarancin ƙalubalen da aka yi. Mitchell Starc ya yi murna da nasarar da ya samu tare da 'yan wasansa yayin da Australia ta yi nasara a kan 'yan wasan Pakistan. Sohail Khan ya yi nasarar neman nasarar Aaron Finch, yayin da Pakistan ta yi yaƙi da kwallon. Sohail Khan ya kama kwallon a filin waje, yayin da Pakistan ta kasa amfani da damarta da kuma yin amfani da matsin lamba. Zaɓuɓɓukan kyaftin mai ƙarfi, mai ƙarfin zuciya, mai kai hari sun kasance ginshiƙan gini don mafi kyawun ɓangarorin a gasar cin kofin duniya har zuwa yanzu. Brendon McCullum, AB de Villiers da kuma yau Michael Clarke suna tabbatar da cewa duk da wickets ta hanyar da manyan kasancewa aljanna ga batsmen, su basira iya da kuma ba kai ga nasara. Duk da haka Misbah ya kawo salon kyaftin dinsa na musamman zuwa teburin tare da halin kwantar da hankali, har ma a fuskar rushewa da gwagwarmaya, wanda ke haifar da imani a cikin bangarensa kuma kusan ya basu nasara mai ban mamaki. Pakistan ta shiga wasan cikin nutsuwa, a bayan nasarori hudu a jere, bayan shan kashi mai yawa a wasanni biyu na farko na rukunin gasar cin kofin duniya. Yin bugun farko, bayan cin nasarar jefawa, ya zama kamar mafi kyawun damar da ƙungiyar ta ke da ita don kayar da Ostiraliya. Sarfraz Ahmed, jarumin Pakistan a wasansu na baya da Ireland, ba zai iya maimaita jaruntakarsa ba yayin da ya doke Mitchell Starc zuwa Watson mai nutsewa a kan 10. Kuma Hazlewood, wanda aka dawo da shi a kan Pat Cummins, ya tabbatar da zaɓinsa yayin da ya saukar da ƙwallon ƙafa wanda ya motsa daga Ahmed Shehzad kuma ya kasance a kan Clarke a karo na biyu. Wahab Riaz ba zai iya ɓoye abin takaici ba kamar yadda, duk da karfi mai karfi, Pakistan ta zo a takaice. Shane Watson (hagu) da kuma Steve...
Pakistan ta buga kwallo 213 a wasan karshe da suka buga. Australia ta yi tuntuɓe zuwa 59-3 lokacin da aka kama Michael Clarke a takaice. Amma Steve Smith (65) da Shane Watson sun kwantar da hankulan yayin da masu karɓar bakuncin ke ci gaba. Ostiraliya za ta kara da Indiya a wasan karshe na hudu.