World Cup 2010 T20 Semi-Final Australia Vs Pakistan

Australia v Pakistan, played at Beausejour Stadium Gros Islet, St.Lucia, on May 14 2010 - Australia won by 3 wickets and 1 ball remaining.

• Pakistan 191 for 6 wickets in 20 overs
• Australia 197 for 7 wickets in 19.5 overs
• Scoreboard

Analytics Behind Australia's Chase

Target of 192 runs to be scored in 20 overs

Score at end of 7 overs ... 58 for the loss of 2 wickets
Batting Resources still available was ... 70 %

Remaining Chase Target % was ... 70 %
Excess Capacity At hand ... + 0 %

Hence at end of 7 overs ... Resource Clock ... fairly even wrt Australia

Score at end of 13 overs ... 107 for the loss of 5 wickets
Batting Resources still available was ... 36 %

Remaining Chase Target % was ... 44 %

Shortage of Capacity At hand .... - 08 %

Hence at end of 13 overs ... Resource Clock ... very much against Australia

The Opening Overs that Australia was keeping pace with target at hand based on the Resource Clock Index. However the loss of three more wickets during the Middle overs put Australia well behind the chase in terms of the Resource Clock. They had an uphill task even at the end of the 15th over at 122 for 5 wickets.

During the End-Overs the Australia were able to accelerate their earlier pace of scoring runs and thus won 3 wickets with just one ball to spare. Michael Hussey scoring 60 runs from 24 balls made the monumental task achievable.

Australia were behind the Resource Clock Index for 16 out of the twenty overs and looked completely out of the race at one stage, but they were able to catch up during the last 5 overs.

In the "Big Overs Comparison" Australia and Pakistan were quite even, Pakistan had 8 big scoring overs whereas Australia had 7 of them, and in the "Tight Overs Comparison" Australia had the edge 6 to 5.

In the "Pivot Points Index" both teams had 8 points each. Thus both the teams were very evenly matched and it came down to the big hitting in the twentieth over which tileted the scales in favor of Australia.