Andrew Symonds back in the squad for this Australian tour to UAE to play against Pakistan, picked two wickets and scored useful 58 in which he built 90 run parternship with skipper Clarke.
Pakistan batting first after winning the toss, played average cricket under the Friday crowd. Salman Butt scored 57 and Shahid Afridi scored 41. Hauritz picked 3 wickets for Australia.
Chasing 208, Hadding got out for 8 but Hopes and Watson added 76 for the 2nd wicket. Skipper Clarke played his role with an unbeaten 39.
Match # 2
Date: Friday April 24, 2009
Teams: Australia v. Pakistan
Captains: Michael Clarke and Younis Khan
Toss: Pakistan, elected to bat
Venue: Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium
Result: Australia won by 6 wickets with 29 balls remaining
Series Result: 5 match series level at 1-1
Man of the Match: A Symonds off Australia
Pakistan Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| S Butt | c Symonds b Hauritz | 57 | 112 | 6 | 0 |
| A Shehzad | Run Out (Laughlin/Haddin) | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Younis Khan | c Haddin b Laughlin | 28 | 34 | 5 | 0 |
| S Malik | c Haddin b Hauritz | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| Misbah | c Hussey b Hauritz | 12 | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| S Afridi | c Haddin b Hopes | 41 | 40 | 5 | 1 |
| Kamran Akmal | c Hussey b Hopes | 19 | 22 | 2 | 0 |
| Umar Gul | c Hauritz b Symonds | 10 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| S Akhtar | c M Clarke b Symonds | 25 | 14 | 4 | 1 |
| Iftikhar Anjum | Not Out | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Saeed Ajmal | Run Out (M Clarke/Bracken) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 2, nb 1) | 3 | - | - | - |
| Total | all out in 46.2 overs | 207 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-5 (Ahmed Shehzad, 2.5 ov), 2-58 (Younis Khan, 16.1 ov), 3-71 (Shoaib Malik, 19.5 ov), 4-103 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 27.3 ov), 5-122 (Salman Butt, 33.3 ov), 6-161 (Kamran Akmal, 40.1 ov), 7-176 (Shahid Afridi, 42.3 ov), 8-206 (Umar Gul, 45.4 ov), 9-206 (Shoaib Akhtar, 45.5 ov), 10-207 (Saeed Ajmal, 46.2 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Bracken | 8.2 | 1 | 24 | 0 |
| Bollingers | 10 | 1 | 26 | 0 |
| Hopes | 7 | 0 | 45 | 2 |
| Hauritz | 10 | 1 | 41 | 3 |
| Laughlin | 9 | 0 | 57 | 1 |
| Symonds | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 |
Australia Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| Haddin | c Ryder b Kallis | 8 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| Hopes | Run Out | 48 | 64 | 3 | 1 |
| Watson | c Pankaj b Kumble | 30 | 52 | 2 | 0 |
| M Clarke | Not Out | 39 | 72 | 3 | 0 |
| A Symonds | Not Out | 58 | 62 | 4 | 1 |
| Ferguson | Not Out | 10 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 8, nb 3) | 15 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 4 wkts in 45.1 overs | 208 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-16 (Haddin, 3.5 ov), 2-93 (Watson, 20.6 ov), 3-93 (Hopes, 21.2 ov), 4-183 (Symonds, 39.6 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| S Akhtar | 7 | 1 | 32 | 0 |
| Umar Gul | 10 | 0 | 51 | 1 |
| I Anjum | 9 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| S Afridi | 10 | 0 | 38 | 2 |
| S Ajmal | 7 | 0 | 37 | 1 |
| S Malik | 2.1 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
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