Australia defeated Pakistan by two wickets in the first ODI match played at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne. Pakistan players failed to show good performance in this match. Talking about Australia, the team won due to the excellent performance of captain Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc.

In this match, Irfan Khan from Pakistan fielded very well in his international ODI debut and won the hearts of all the fans. Let us tell you that Irfan Khan also took a brilliant catch in this match. He caught this catch of Australian wicketkeeper batsman Josh English.

All this was seen in the 20th over of Australia’s innings. Josh English hit an excellent full shot on a short ball from Shaheen Shah Afridi. He played this shot towards where Irfan Khan was fielding. Irfan Pathan covered a lot of ground and caught the ball. However, as soon as the young player saw that he was going outside the boundary line, he immediately threw the ball. However, when seen in the replays, his foot was touching the boundary line.

However, on the very next ball, Irfan Khan took an excellent catch of Josh English, the video of which is going viral on social media.

Here’s the video:

Some brilliance on the rope from Mohammad Irfan Khan! #AUSvPAK pic.twitter.com/FAWI9ZUGD2

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) November 4, 2024

Talking about the match, Pakistan was all out for 203 runs while batting first. On behalf of the team, captain Mohammad Rizwan scored 44 runs while Naseem Shah played an inning of 40 runs. Shaheen Afridi contributed 24 runs while Irfan Khan scored 22 runs. Babar Azam contributed 37 runs. For Australia, Mitchell Starc took three wickets while captain Pat Cummins took 2 wickets.

In reply, Australia won the match by two wickets. For the hosts, Josh English scored 49 runs while Steve Smith contributed 44 runs. Captain Pat Cummins played the match winning inning of 32* runs. Australia is leading 1-0 in the three-match ODI series.