Summary

  • Group A, Dubai

  • Australia win by nine wickets after chasing down 83 with nine overs to spare

  • Captain Healy and fast bowler Vlaeminck sustain injuries

  • Pakistan bowled out for 82 off 19.5 overs - Gardner 4-21, including three in one over

  • Australia all but through to semis; Pakistan's hopes all but over

  • Scroll back through live text to watch highlights

Live Reporting

by Joe Rindl & Tom Mallows

  1. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    You would not expect Tahlia McGrath to drop that. I think she expected it to come at her much faster.

  2. dropped catch

    Iram dropped on 2

    Yes, no, yes...no!

    Iram Javed plays a loose cross-batted swipe that goes straight to bowler Tahlia McGrath, who mis-judges the speed, juggles the ball a few times before it eventually falls to the floor.

    Iram dropped on two by McGrath

  3. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Pakistan have got to be able to build a partnership. If they lose another wicket they'll be in even more bother.

  4. Pak 40-5

    Australia are by far the best team in the tournament, but we have also seen some pretty rotten shots from Pakistan.

    40-5 is the lowest score at the halfway stage at this World Cup so far. Lasting the full 20 will be an achievement.

  5. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It is poor batting, but well bowled from Georgia Wareham.

    Wareham sees Nina Dar coming early and she's able to flight it up, tossing it outside off-stump.

    Dar makes no attempt to come down the line of the ball.

    It is easy pickings for Alyssa Healy behind the stumps.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Dar st Healy b Wareham 10 (Pak 39-5)

    Resistance over.

    Nida Dar goes on a walkabout but misses the ball and is caught halfway down the track, with Alyssa Healy whipping off the bails.

    'Poor batting' - Dar stumped for 10 by Healy

  7. Pak 37-4

    Nida Dar of Pakistan batsGetty Images

    A bit of resistance from Nida Dar, who blasts Annabel Sutherland over mid-on for Pakistan's first boundary of the day.

    Pakistan have scores of 116 all out and 105-8 so far at this World Cup. If they can get close to that they will have done well.

  8. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Another wicket falls.

    Pakistan in all sorts of bother, that wasn't really the option.

    Whether Pakistan were using Omaima Sohail to come in and be a pinch hitter and that was her role, it's a poor option.

    It would have been a better option to keep it on the ground and go for four rather than going aerial.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Omaima c Gardner b Wareham 3 (Pak 29-4)

    Easy as you like.

    Omaima Sohail goes for a slog-sweep but perfectly picks out Ashleigh Gardner, who makes up for her drop the previous over with a simple catch on the mid-wicket boundary.

    Georgia Wareham strikes in her first over.

    Wareham removes Omaima for three

  10. dropped catch

    Omaima dropped on 0

    This is a very, very difficult chance but for a team like Australia it will go down as a drop.

    New batter Omaima Sohail clips the ball towards midwicket and Ashleigh Gardner, diving one-handed, spills the catch low down at full stretch.

    It would have been a worldie had she held on.

  11. Here is the first wicket to fall this evening, but it has got a lot worse for Pakistan since.

    Muneeba falls for seven to a 'great catch' from Litchfield

  12. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Probably the last thing that Pakistan need is an umpire's call not going their way.

    Annabel Sutherland with an instant impact.

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Sidra Amin lbw b Sutherland 12 (Pak 23-3)

    Out - just!

    Ultraedge is working again and shows no spike as the ball went past - and Hawkeye shows the ball was going on to just clip leg stump for umpire's call.

    Sutherland traps Sidra Ameen lbw for 12

  14. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    I think Sidra Ameen is reviewing because she knows Pakistan are in trouble.

    Sophie Molineux of Australia after taking the wicket of Nida DarGetty Images

  15. Pakistan review

    A full delivery from Annabel Sutherland crashes into pads of Sidra Amin and the umpire's finger goes up.

    Sidra Amin immediately reviews, so the third umpire's busy evening is about to get busier.

    Is there another slight edge?

  16. Pak 23-2

    That successful review is a bit of good news for Pakistan, but that was not the best powerplay. They have yet to hit a boundary and that will become even harder now the field can spread.

  17. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    I've not seen anything like that before where Ultraedge has become useless as it was spiking the whole time.

  18. Not out

    Alyssa Healey of Australia appeals for the wicket of Nida DarGetty Images

    That was a very tricky one for the third umpire as Ultraedge showed a spike all the way through, suggesting it was picking up a random noise from somewhere.

    But there was enough evidence on the video replay to show the ball brushed the glove, so the decision is overturned.

  19. Pakistan review

    Another review, this time for Pakistan as Nida Dar is trapped in front attempting a sweep off her first ball from Sophie Molineux.

    The umpire puts his finger up but Nida Dar reviews - does that mean she hit it?

  20. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    There was no appeal, it was a straight celebration from Alyssa Healy.

    It isn't Pakistan's powerplay so far. The task that already felt like a mountain has already become even bigger.