The

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toured

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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 Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi ( ur, شاہد افریدی‎, ps, شاهد افریدی; born 1 March 1977), known as Shahid Afridi, is a Pakistani former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. He is current ...

, was involved in an alleged

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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

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Internationals. During the Twenty20 International, Australian fast bowler

Shaun Tait Shaun Tait (born 22 February 1983) is a former Australian professional cricketer who was appointed as the bowling coach of the Pakistan national cricket team in February 2022. He played as a right arm fast bowler

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

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and

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. Australia registered a clean sweep by winning the Test series 3–0, the ODI series 5–0 and the only T20. During the tour, speculation was rife that captain

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was involved in a power struggle with former skippers

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and

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and that team morale was low. Following the tour, the

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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

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for a year each. Afridi and the brothers

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and

Kamran Akmal Kamran Akmal (Urdu, pa, ; born 13 January 1982) is a Pakistani former cricketer, who played for Pakistan as a right-handed batsman & wicketkeeper. He started his international career in November 2002 with a Test match at Harare Sports Club. ...

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

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

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events during this match. Pakistani

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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 Michael Clarke stated that he "certainly had no suspicions". Several months later,

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a man who had accepted a bribe to provide information about spot-fixing during Pakistan's summer tour of

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, 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

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(live) ( HD) – United Kingdom and Ireland *

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(live) – India *

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(live) – India (3rd Test & few ODI's) *

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(live) ( HD) – Australia * SKY Sport (live) ( HD) – New Zealand *

Geo Super Geo Super is the first 24-hour Karachi-based Pakistani Television channel dedicated to the world of Sports. It is owned by the Jang Group of Newspapers. Geo Super was launched in September 2006. It has broadcasting rights for many sporting event ...

(live) – Pakistan *

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(live) – Pakistan * Supersport (live) – South Africa *

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(live) – Australia *

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(live) – Europe *

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(live) – USA *

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(live) – Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and Antigua *

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(pay per view) – Malaysia and Singapore *

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(live) – Middle East

Radio

* ABC Radio (live) – Australia
Humara FM 94.6
(live) – Pakistan

References

External links

from Cricketarchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Pakistani Cricket Team in Australia in 2009-10 2009 in cricket 2010 in cricket 2009 in Australian cricket 2010 in Australian cricket Aus Aus 2009–10 Australian cricket season 2009-10 International cricket competitions in 2009–10