After winning the Fourth ODI at SCG on Sunday, Australia secured the five-match ODI series against Pakistan. After winning the toss, Australia decided to bat first and made a mammoth total of 353/6 (50 overs).

In reply, Pakistan were bowled out for 267 runs (43.5 overs). Australia won this ODI by 86 runs and they are leading the ODI series by 3-1.

Brief Scores: Australia – 353/6 in 50 overs (David Warner 130, Glenn Maxwell 78, Hasan Ali 5/52)

Pakistan – 267 in 43.5 overs (Sharjeel Khan 74, Shoaib Malik 47, Josh Hazlewood 3/54)

Result – Australia won by 86 runs

Some of the statistical highlights of the match are given below:

Australian batsman David Warner scored a brilliant century in this match as he made 130 runs before getting out. With this hundred Warner now has 12 ODI centuries and he is the third fastest, in terms of innings, only behind Amla and Kohli. Warner overtook stars like Sourav Ganguly and AB de Villiers who had achieved this feat in 130 and 120 innings respectively. Warner took just 90 innings. Here are some important stats for this innings:

i) It is the 3^rd highest ODI score by an Australian batsman against Pakistan (also 2^nd highest ODI score as an Australian opener against Pakistan). The top two in this list are 146 by Matthew Hayden (at Nairobi, Gym on 30^th August 2002) and 143* by Andrew Symonds (at Johannesburg on 11^th February 2003).

ii) It was Warner’s 5^th ODI century in the ongoing international cricket season which is joint highest no. of ODI centuries scored by an Australian batsman in a season. Former Australian opening batsman Matthew Hayden had also once hit 5 ODI centuries in 2006/07 season.

iii) It was Warner’s 3^rd ODI century at SCG which is the joint highest no. of ODI centuries by a batsman at SCG. Former Sri Lankan batsman Sanath Jayasuriya had also hit 3 ODI centuries at this ground.

iv) Also, this century was Warner’s 6^th international cricket century at SCG (3 in Tests and 3 in ODIs). It is the 2^nd highest no. of centuries in international cricket at SCG. Ricky Ponting leads the chart with 8 international cricket centuries at SCG (6 in Tests and 2 in ODIs).

At the end of 50 overs, Australia scored 353/6. It is the highest ODI score for Australia against Pakistan. Australia’s previous highest ODI total against Pakistan was 337/7 at SCG on 4^th February 2000.

Also, it is the 4^th highest ODI total for Australia at SCG. Australia’s top 3 ODI total at SCG are 376/9 (against Sri Lanka on 8^th March 2015), 368/5 (against Sri Lanka on 12^th February 2006) and 359/5 (against India at 8^th February 2004).

Pakistan pacer Hasan Ali bowled well in this ODI as his bowling figure was 10-0-52-5. It is the best bowling figures by a Pakistan bowler in the first innings of an ODI match against Australia in Australia.

Overall, it is the 4^th best ODI bowling figure by Pakistan bowler against Australia in Australia.

In terms of completing full 10-over quota in an ODI match, it is the best bowling figure by a Pakistan bowler against Australia in Australia.

Another Pakistan pacer Junaid Khan was very expensive in this game as he conceded 82 runs (10-0-82-0) during Australia’s innings. Junaid Khan became the bowler to concede most runs for Pakistan against Australia in an ODI match. The previous record holder was Umar Gul who had conceded 80-runs (10-1-80-2) against Australia at Adelaide on 26^th January 2010.

Australian spinners took total 5 wickets (Travis Head 2/66 and Adam Zampa 3/55) in this ODI. It is the 7^th time when Australian spinners took total 5 or more wickets in an ODI match at SCG. Before this ODI, last time Australian spinners did the same at SCG more than 20 years ago (on 8^th December 1996 against West Indies).