West Australian leg-spinner Alana King may hardly consider her luck after pulling off a surprising one-hand catch off her personal bowling in opposition to Pakistan.
Australia had been properly on high of their sub-continent rivals within the first T20 International after they had been requested to ball first.
King was introduced into the assault for her second over after veteran quicks Megan Schutt, and Ellyse Perry orchestrated a collapse of 4-5 in a matter of overs to go away the vacationers reeling.
And it solely bought worse as Nida Dar tried to slap the ball down the bottom.
She bought far too near the West Aussie star’s gravity as she threw herself throughout the wicket, plucking the ball out of the air with one hand.
King unfold a little bit mayo on the end earlier than equalling the standard of the catch along with her celebration.
The leggie completed with figures of 2-16 from 4 overs.
The guests had been left on the point of capitulation at 5-57.
Earlier, Perry produced a text-book yorker to get the primary breakthrough earlier than opposition skipper Bismah Maroof was strangled down the leg facet second ball by Schutt.
It continues a horror tour for Pakistan, who’ve been smashed in each encounter, completely outclassed by Australia as they heat up for subsequent month’s T20 World Cup in South Africa.
Australia’s first conflict is with New Zealand on February 11 in Paarl.
