Cricket-Australia collapse helps Pakistan to ODI series triumph in Lahore


June 5 (Reuters) - Pakistan ⁠tore through Australia's middle and lower orders on ⁠their way to a four-wicket victory in the ‌third and final one-day international in Lahore on Thursday, taking the series 2-1.

* The tourists, who won the toss and elected ​to bat, made 157 in 42 ⁠overs with Pakistan reaching ⁠their modest victory target with 49 balls to spare.

* ⁠Australia ‌had looked good while Josh Inglis was at the crease. The skipper hit 65 ⁠off 71 balls to take the tourists to ​119-3 but ‌they added just 38 runs for their last ⁠seven wickets ​after his departure.

* Quick Shaheen Afridi (3-30) removed both openers and all-rounder Cameron Green before Pakistan's spinners took over to ⁠mop up the Australian tail on ​a turning pitch.

* Babar Azam fired Pakistan's response with 40 from 84 deliveries before becoming one of left-arm ⁠spinner Matt Kuhnemann's three victims.

* Pakistan won the first match in the series by five wickets in Rawalpindi before the tourists levelled it up with a ​41-run win in the first of ⁠two matches in Lahore.

* Australia, who are missing many ​of their top players, now move ‌on to Bangladesh for three ​ODIs followed by a three-match Twenty20 series starting.

(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Stephen Coates)

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