AUS VS PAK - 3rd T20I, Pakistan tour of Australia, 2019

If ever there was an antidote to the madness at Napier, it was this. It swung, it bounced, it troubled. And when you come in with this kind of inexperience against these home bullies, all you do is pray. Nope, nothing divine intervened. That's all we have for you from here, and from a scoreline as unjust as 2-0, this is Vineet Anantharaman signing off on behalf of Raju Peethala, Sriram AS and our scorer Sreenivas. Until more of a contest in the whites, ta ta!!

Aaron Finch | Winning skipper: Really proud of the boys with the way we applied ourselves in the last couple of weeks. Each time we turn up at training we are improving ourselves and that is very important. The way that Agar bowled through this series and in the SL series was agruably our Man of the Series. He was just brilliant. We also kept getting wickets in the powerplays, Richardson and the rest were unbelievable. We always talk about one of the top three batting deep and batting a majority of the overs. It's nice to do it against a top team. We are growing as a team and hopefully some big things to come. The next thing for me is the Shield game and then the ODIs for Australia in India.

Babar Azam | Losing skipper: Kaafi (Quite) disappointed that we lost to a team like this. But we have learnt a lot from this series and we'll take the positives and come back hard in the next series. I have learnt a lot, there is a lot to learn as well. Hopefully I'll apply it in the future. Musa and Hasnain were bowling quick. But Finch and Warner played really well. We played them so that they can use this experience in the future. We have a three day gap before the practice match; looking forward to the Test series. [Loose Urdu translation]

Steven Smith | MoS: It was nice to contribute in this series. I batted only once in three games, so slightly surprised to be getting this. The bowling has been superb, right through the Sri Lankan series. You always want to get better and do well for the team. It is all about being consistent. Hopefully the top two can keep smacking them and I have to back them when they don't.

Sean Abbott | MoM: Obviously it is a privilege to be named in an eleven that has been playing so well lately. Lot of hard work has gone into it. There is a lot of talent in the country so I only had to keep up the hard work. The guys have been playing really well and have welcomed me into the group really well, so I wasn't as nervous as I thought I'd be.

David Warner: Fantastic start to the summer. He (Kane Richardson) bowled fantastically. Our bowlers have done the job throughout the series. Credit to them, we'll look to set the bar high before the World Cup. We will look to keep performing. It's a long way to go (the World Cup), hopefully we can continue the momentum. He (Sean Abbott) just proved why he got that opportunity here and I am happy for him. I got to keep putting runs on the board and keep practising hard in the nets, that's my job. It's about making sure I am doing the right things for the team.

19:21 Local Time, 11:21 GMT, 16:51 IST: Here's a cruel fact -- the Aussies in this entire series have lost only three wickets, and in the whole of 2019 are still to lose a T20, sitting pretty on an eight-match winning streak. Oh and surprise, surprise, they won't lose one. This wasn't even a contest. Perth's reputation is often a challenge too hard for Asians to overcome, but Pakistan, today, didn't even show up. There are defeats, there are thrashings and then there is whatever this was. The fact that only two out of their eleven got into double digits should tell you a story. And the fact that one of them ended up with over 40% of the team's eventual total should add more clarity. And when you have only 106 and bowlers who've never bowled here defending it against Finch and Warner on this kind of a rampage, you'd rather surrender. Pakistan did just that. Hang around, the presentations are here ..

Muhammad Musa to Finch, FOUR, and the fifty is Finch's, the series is Australia's and the embarrasement is Pakistan's. Musa feeds length at this stage for Finch to get under, swing through the line and then loft it over mid-off. Babar's over there, and he's not even bothering to chase this. Yea, that's how bad the mental thumping has been ..

Okay this is the most fun we'll be having tonight -- Australia need two runs and both batsmen need two respectively for their personal fifties ..

Muhammad Musa to Warner, 1 run, 121kph, cutter, but on the hips. Nurdled, down to fine leg

The equation: A run every 17 balls.

Muhammad Musa to Finch, 1 run, 141.6kph, lofted uppishly, high elbows, high batface, long-on

Muhammad Musa to Finch, no run, neat square punch, and backward point does a good diving job

Syed: Both of them should be able to score half centuries unless Pakistan ruin it with extras!

Muhammad Musa to Finch, 2 runs, 143.1kph, drives, squirting the inside edge through square leg

Muhammad Musa to Finch, wide, 119kph, slower sucker, but it's almost cutting the pitch outside off

Mohammad Hasnain to Finch, 1 run, chops an attempted pull onto his thigh, and then to gully

Mohammad Hasnain to Warner, 1 run, full on middle, whipped down the ground

Mohammad Hasnain to Finch, 1 run, pitched up outside off. Finch moves away to drill it wide of mid-off

Mohammad Hasnain to Warner, 1 run, 137.5kph, ungainly hoick this .. and he's in no control as he squirts this off a toe-end. Again, it's an Aussie night, with there being nobody where this ball falls, at deep point

Mohammad Hasnain to Warner, wide, short, Warner's happy claiming these overhead extras