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[LittleBitFunny]

Superb comeback of Australia team in today match. Both batters David Warner and Mitchell Marsh are playing very admirable performance and both makes a tremendous dual batting partnership against Pakistan. Both batters of Australia David Warner and Mitchell Marsh achieve their brilliant century. At this time, Australia make 237 scores by playing 32 overs without lost any wicket at this moment. Now Pakistan is in bad situation not single bowler could take their wicket today. Pakistan chance in this match for winning has been reduced. Let's see how many scores target Australian team will give to Pakistan team at the end of their batting inning.

I had posted this multiple times. Australia always perform well during ICC tournaments. If they can get a big win today, then it will really boost their NRR. And trust me, the last 1-2 slots for semi-finals this time are going to get decided solely on the basis of run-rate. The next match should be relatively easy for Australia, as they are scheduled to play against Netherlands. But after that they need to win against New Zealand, as the latter is in exceptional form. BTW, Australia has lost their 5th wicket now. 400 may not be possible. 

Australia's 400 seems unlikely. If Warner was at the crease, the team could have collected more than 400. But the new batsmen are not doing well against Pakistan's bowlers. Australia collected only 2 runs in 45th over and 7 runs in 46th over. At least 10 runs per over should be collected at this moment.

It is still very difficult for Australia to secure a semi-final. Even if they win today's match. Pakistan, South Africa and England teams are trying their best to secure the semi-finals. Australia will have to play well in every match to ensure a semi-final. Because they have already dropped points in two matches.

[BitcoinsGreat]

Superb comeback of Australia team in today match. Both batters David Warner and Mitchell Marsh are playing very admirable performance and both makes a tremendous dual batting partnership against Pakistan. Both batters of Australia David Warner and Mitchell Marsh achieve their brilliant century. At this time, Australia make 237 scores by playing 32 overs without lost any wicket at this moment. Now Pakistan is in bad situation not single bowler could take their wicket today. Pakistan chance in this match for winning has been reduced. Let's see how many scores target Australian team will give to Pakistan team at the end of their batting inning.

I had posted this multiple times. Australia always perform well during ICC tournaments. If they can get a big win today, then it will really boost their NRR. And trust me, the last 1-2 slots for semi-finals this time are going to get decided solely on the basis of run-rate. The next match should be relatively easy for Australia, as they are scheduled to play against Netherlands. But after that they need to win against New Zealand, as the latter is in exceptional form. BTW, Australia has lost their 5th wicket now. 400 may not be possible. 

Australia's 400 seems unlikely. If Warner was at the crease, the team could have collected more than 400. But the new batsmen are not doing well against Pakistan's bowlers. Australia collected only 2 runs in 45th over and 7 runs in 46th over. At least 10 runs per over should be collected at this moment.

It is still very difficult for Australia to secure a semi-final. Even if they win today's match. Pakistan, South Africa and England teams are trying their best to secure the semi-finals. Australia will have to play well in every match to ensure a semi-final. Because they have already dropped points in two matches.

The first innings had just finished and the Australian team played as well, they did 367 scores. David Warner did 163 scores, which is a very high score, and Mitchell Marsh also played very well, he also did a century, and half of the runs done by Mitchell Marsh and David Warner.

Mitchell Marsh could have been out early if Usama Mir hadn’t dropped their catch but Usama Mir got him out in spin and Shaheen Shah Afridi took the catch, in early Shaheen did bowling, and Marsh's catch went to Usama Mir but they couldn’t catch.
This is the first match of Usama Mir in this World Cup so he should have tried to play well.

[Popkon6]

Australia team performed very well against Pakistan today which is surprising. Australia team has collected 367 runs which will be a big target for Pakistan. Of course Pakistan team has to give a very good batting performance to win this match today. I noticed something during the match Pakistan team has many misses regarding fielding due to which Australia team got chance and two opening batsman warner and Mitchell Marsh scored huge runs. And the opening two batsmen have scored maximum runs which is the performance of both of them which gives Australia team a lot of chances to win this match. But if Pakistan can perform well in terms of batting then surely we can enjoy a competitive match.

[Ricardo11]

Australia has given a fairly good target to Pakistan. Australia set a huge target of 367 runs to Pakistan. Australia team's David Warner and Mitchell Marsh have shown very good performances. Both of them scored centuries, David Warner scoring 163 with 9 "sixes" and 14 "fours", and Mitchell Marsh scoring 121 with 9 "sixes" and 10 "fours". They managed very good score well. But Pakistan is no less, they have won the match against Sri Lanka with a target of 345 runs. Pakistan can perform much better. Let's see what happens in the end.

[HelliumZ]

Australia has given a fairly good target to Pakistan. Australia set a huge target of 367 runs to Pakistan. Australia team's David Warner and Mitchell Marsh have shown very good performances. Both of them scored centuries, David Warner scoring 163 with 9 "sixes" and 14 "fours", and Mitchell Marsh scoring 121 with 9 "sixes" and 10 "fours". They managed very good score well. But Pakistan is no less, they have won the match against Sri Lanka with a target of 345 runs. Pakistan can perform much better. Let's see what happens in the end.

Although Australia has given a target of 367 runs, but it is impossible for Pakistan, but if the two can make a good partnership, there may be a chance for Pakistan to win. Pakistan must perform well to win the target of 367 runs. Pakistan though had a poor performance till 40 overs but after 40 overs Pakistan made a comeback and lost five wickets for just 27 runs. If Pakistan could have done such a performance early on, Australia would have failed to set a target of more than 300 runs in today's match.

[noormcs5]

Australia has given a fairly good target to Pakistan. Australia set a huge target of 367 runs to Pakistan. Australia team's David Warner and Mitchell Marsh have shown very good performances. Both of them scored centuries, David Warner scoring 163 with 9 "sixes" and 14 "fours", and Mitchell Marsh scoring 121 with 9 "sixes" and 10 "fours". They managed very good score well. But Pakistan is no less, they have won the match against Sri Lanka with a target of 345 runs. Pakistan can perform much better. Let's see what happens in the end.

In the innings, we saw that the Australian team played very amazingly and wonderfully but when the innings went close to the end then Shaheen Shah Afridi played very well. He ended up hattrick ball in the last over but sadly he couldn’t do hattrick. The 5 wickets were taken by Shaheen Shah Afridi.

If we talk about other Pakistani pacers so Haris Rauf didn’t take wickets early but when the match ended then he started to take wickets for the Australian team, and he took very big batsman wickets like David Warner, Josh Inglis, and Marnus Labuschagne. Pakistan bowlers have fear with these batsman and Haris Rauf finished their play.

[Jateng]

My bet is on Pakistan to win against Australia though it won't be easy since both teams are under a lot of pressure after recent losses. Both teams are pretty weak in the batting and bowling departments.

Whoever bats first could have the advantage since this is a high scoring pitch and chasing increases the pressure basically.

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

[LittleBitFunny]

Superb comeback of Australia team in today match. Both batters David Warner and Mitchell Marsh are playing very admirable performance and both makes a tremendous dual batting partnership against Pakistan. Both batters of Australia David Warner and Mitchell Marsh achieve their brilliant century. At this time, Australia make 237 scores by playing 32 overs without lost any wicket at this moment. Now Pakistan is in bad situation not single bowler could take their wicket today. Pakistan chance in this match for winning has been reduced. Let's see how many scores target Australian team will give to Pakistan team at the end of their batting inning.

I had posted this multiple times. Australia always perform well during ICC tournaments. If they can get a big win today, then it will really boost their NRR. And trust me, the last 1-2 slots for semi-finals this time are going to get decided solely on the basis of run-rate. The next match should be relatively easy for Australia, as they are scheduled to play against Netherlands. But after that they need to win against New Zealand, as the latter is in exceptional form. BTW, Australia has lost their 5th wicket now. 400 may not be possible. 

Australia's 400 seems unlikely. If Warner was at the crease, the team could have collected more than 400. But the new batsmen are not doing well against Pakistan's bowlers. Australia collected only 2 runs in 45th over and 7 runs in 46th over. At least 10 runs per over should be collected at this moment.

It is still very difficult for Australia to secure a semi-final. Even if they win today's match. Pakistan, South Africa and England teams are trying their best to secure the semi-finals. Australia will have to play well in every match to ensure a semi-final. Because they have already dropped points in two matches.

The first innings had just finished and the Australian team played as well, they did 367 scores. David Warner did 163 scores, which is a very high score, and Mitchell Marsh also played very well, he also did a century, and half of the runs done by Mitchell Marsh and David Warner.

Mitchell Marsh could have been out early if Usama Mir hadn’t dropped their catch but Usama Mir got him out in spin and Shaheen Shah Afridi took the catch, in early Shaheen did bowling, and Marsh's catch went to Usama Mir but they couldn’t catch.
This is the first match of Usama Mir in this World Cup so he should have tried to play well.

Pakistan's fielding was not good. This team should focus more on their fielding. Had the fielding been better, they would have been able to save many more runs.

The target of 368 runs is very big. Even then it is possible to win if the batsmen play well. The pitch is helping the batsmen. However, Pakistan's top order must play well. I would say on the performance of the two openers Imam, Shafique and Babar, Rizwan, Pakistan win or lose this match. If these four batsmen play well, Pakistan may be able to win. But till now Pakistan's chances of victory are very low. Pakistan collected 48 runs without losing any wickets in 8 overs.

[HONDACD125]

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

The most important thing of the match is the starting partnership of 259 runs by Australia can prove to be a very important turning point. At one point, the match seemed to be completely out of Pakistan hands and it seemed that Australia would easily cross the 400-run mark. Of course, Pakistani bowlers came back in the match after taking wickets of Australian batsmen continuously, but then it was too late.

A target of 368 runs is a big target, but not impossible. If the Pakistani team provides a good opening partnership, it will reduce the pressure on the batsmen coming later. Pakistan team batting line-up is quite strong, if they stay on the crease, they can achieve this target. However, this requires some batsmen to play long innings, and maintaining the run rate will be most important.

[Patrol69]

Australia has given a fairly good target to Pakistan. Australia set a huge target of 367 runs to Pakistan. Australia team's David Warner and Mitchell Marsh have shown very good performances. Both of them scored centuries, David Warner scoring 163 with 9 "sixes" and 14 "fours", and Mitchell Marsh scoring 121 with 9 "sixes" and 10 "fours". They managed very good score well. But Pakistan is no less, they have won the match against Sri Lanka with a target of 345 runs. Pakistan can perform much better. Let's see what happens in the end.

Australia set Pakistan a target of 368 runs, it's not an easy target at all, you can't call this target fair. No team has scored 368 runs to win a World Cup tournament so if Pakistan can cross 368 runs to win against Australia today then it will be one of the biggest wins in cricket history. To score 368 runs in 50 overs, the batsmen need to score about 7.5 runs per over. 7 runs per over is very difficult for any team to get up to fifty overs. 

We are used to seeing most of the 20 over games where batsmen score 10 to 12 runs per over but this is a 50 over game where you have to keep the wickets alive as well as score seven runs per over which is extra work for the batsmen. Pakistan's batsmen can improve even though Pakistan got off to a good start against Australia.

[Westinhome]

I had posted this multiple times. Australia always perform well during ICC tournaments. If they can get a big win today, then it will really boost their NRR. And trust me, the last 1-2 slots for semi-finals this time are going to get decided solely on the basis of run-rate. The next match should be relatively easy for Australia, as they are scheduled to play against Netherlands. But after that they need to win against New Zealand, as the latter is in exceptional form. BTW, Australia has lost their 5th wicket now. 400 may not be possible. 

Australia made the good knock today,because they had scored of 367 runs in the end of 50 overs.This was the good comeback of the team Australia in the World Cup,we don’t know why the team Australia performance was poor till yesterday.But the coach made some influence on today match.The bowling of team Australia,Pakistan and Afghanistan was good in this World Cup.But this game was good one.This World Cup was unpredictable till now,because the Afghanistan and Netherland had won the big team like England and Australia.So the run rate will decide the semi finalist except the top two team.

[Z_MBFM]

My bet is on Pakistan to win against Australia though it won't be easy since both teams are under a lot of pressure after recent losses. Both teams are pretty weak in the batting and bowling departments.

Whoever bats first could have the advantage since this is a high scoring pitch and chasing increases the pressure basically.

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

Australian player David Warner played a volatile game. It is not an easy task for a player to play alone for so long. he scored 163 runs off 124 balls which is a truly remarkable performance. most of the credit for Australia being able to set such a big target goes to David Warner and Mitchell Marsh who played for a long time and collected most of the runs. I also agree with you that Australia has the potential to win the match. If Australia wins today's match, it will be able to move behind England to the 5th position in the points table.  However, Australia has to perform well in regular matches if they want to do well in this year world cup

[Publictalk792]

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

They played well but now Pakistan is also surprising. Pakistan has made 100 runs and they didn't lost a single wicket yet. And I think if this Partnership will play till end so easily Pakistan can win this match. Abdullah Shafique is a good batsman. He played well against SriLankan team. But this is the game so no one can say anything. Let's watch Australia has performed well and now the Pakistan's turn.

[noormcs5]

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

They played well but now Pakistan is also surprising. Pakistan has made 100 runs and they didn't lost a single wicket yet. And I think if this Partnership will play till end so easily Pakistan can win this match. Abdullah Shafique is a good batsman. He played well against SriLankan team. But this is the game so no one can say anything. Let's watch Australia has performed well and now the Pakistan's turn.

What is more surprising is that the Australian team put down the two easy catches and due to this Pakistan haven't lost a wicket yet. Only Australia is to be blamed for this poor fielding and catching. Had they taken the two catches, the situation would have been entirely different.

With the current situation of the match, this partnership between Abdullah Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq is hurting Australia a big time and the more they carry on without losing the wicket, the Australians will loosen their grip on this match.

Also, as we have seen wickets usually start to tremble as one long partnership breaks. So if Australia manages to take one wicket, who knows the door for them is opened but still they have Baber Azam and Muhammad Rizwan who can still be threatening for the Aussies.

[Out of mind]

The runs that Australia scored today are really high. First of all, I took Pakistan's support today. I thought maybe Pakistan team will play well today and improve their bowling line-up and put Australia under pressure, but it got interrupted. Australia team has collected 367 runs, they have made a huge score, to meet this target, Pakistan will need to collect enough runs. Although Pakistan team is batting well at the moment, if they can bat like this and build a good partnership then it will be possible to reach the target. Although Pakistan has lost a wicket at the moment but Babar Azam is at the crease at the moment, if they can build a partnership then Pakistan team can be in a good position. Since Pakistan's run rate is much lower than Australia's at the moment, they need to increase their run rate if they are to meet the target. Pakistan team needs to score 216 runs from 161 balls to win the match against Australia today, this target is very difficult to achieve, but if the batting performance is great then it may be possible, but today the match may be mostly in favor of Australia.

[leonair]

My bet is on Pakistan to win against Australia though it won't be easy since both teams are under a lot of pressure after recent losses. Both teams are pretty weak in the batting and bowling departments.

Whoever bats first could have the advantage since this is a high scoring pitch and chasing increases the pressure basically.

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

Australian player David Warner played a volatile game. It is not an easy task for a player to play alone for so long. he scored 163 runs off 124 balls which is a truly remarkable performance. most of the credit for Australia being able to set such a big target goes to David Warner and Mitchell Marsh who played for a long time and collected most of the runs. I also agree with you that Australia has the potential to win the match. If Australia wins today's match, it will be able to move behind England to the 5th position in the points table.  However, Australia has to perform well in regular matches if they want to do well in this year world cup

Pakistan's game does not look bad but it may not be possible for them to overcome such a big target given by Australia. 145 runs in 22 overs and the loss of 1 wicket does not count as a bad score. But Australia's performance was much better than them and here they were able to give such a big target.  And because of this I agree with you that Australia are much more likely to win the match.  Because Pakistan still need 223 runs in 27 overs which is very difficult to collect. But Pakistan is a good team so if they can collect high runs per over then they can win the match

[Smack That Ace]

My bet is on Pakistan to win against Australia though it won't be easy since both teams are under a lot of pressure after recent losses. Both teams are pretty weak in the batting and bowling departments.

Whoever bats first could have the advantage since this is a high scoring pitch and chasing increases the pressure basically.

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

Australian player David Warner played a volatile game. It is not an easy task for a player to play alone for so long. he scored 163 runs off 124 balls which is a truly remarkable performance. most of the credit for Australia being able to set such a big target goes to David Warner and Mitchell Marsh who played for a long time and collected most of the runs. I also agree with you that Australia has the potential to win the match. If Australia wins today's match, it will be able to move behind England to the 5th position in the points table.  However, Australia has to perform well in regular matches if they want to do well in this year world cup

Pakistan's game does not look bad but it may not be possible for them to overcome such a big target given by Australia. 145 runs in 22 overs and the loss of 1 wicket does not count as a bad score. But Australia's performance was much better than them and here they were able to give such a big target.  And because of this I agree with you that Australia are much more likely to win the match.  Because Pakistan still need 223 runs in 27 overs which is very difficult to collect. But Pakistan is a good team so if they can collect high runs per over then they can win the match

Pakistan's two openers got off to a good start. But their strike rate was not very high. Shafique scored 64 runs off 61 balls and Imam scored 70 runs off 71 balls.

Babar Azam and Rizwan are now at the crease. These two are the most experienced and talented batsmen in the Pakistan squad. And because of the great performance of these two batsmen against Sri Lanka, Pakistan won. If Babar and Rizwan can stay at the crease in today's match then I think Pakistan has a chance to win.

Pakistan managed to collect 169 runs in 25 overs. Pakistan need 199 runs in 25 overs to win. It is not easy, but not too difficult a task either. Because the pitch is quite batting friendly. The outfield is also quite fast. This is why it can be said that Pakistan still has a chance to win if they play well.

[Westinhome]

Australia team performed very well against Pakistan today which is surprising. Australia team has collected 367 runs which will be a big target for Pakistan. Of course Pakistan team has to give a very good batting performance to win this match today. I noticed something during the match Pakistan team has many misses regarding fielding due to which Australia team got chance and two opening batsman warner and Mitchell Marsh scored huge runs. And the opening two batsmen have scored maximum runs which is the performance of both of them which gives Australia team a lot of chances to win this match. But if Pakistan can perform well in terms of batting then surely we can enjoy a competitive match.

The game of the Pakistan openers was good enough today,both the opener going to complete their fifty runs.Shafique and Imam ul Haq game was good today.They both scored 104 runs in 17 overs was not expected one by the Australian bowlers.Because the Cummins gave 33 runs and Starc also gave 28 runs and very expensive today.The 367 runs was good one,but if the Australian was not take the early wicket of the team Pakistan.It will be the big trouble for the team Australia at the end.Because if the opener was set to the field,the run from that batsman will be unpredictable at the end of the game.Today game was very important for team Australia then Pakistan team.

[SATWAT]

My bet is on Pakistan to win against Australia though it won't be easy since both teams are under a lot of pressure after recent losses. Both teams are pretty weak in the batting and bowling departments.

Whoever bats first could have the advantage since this is a high scoring pitch and chasing increases the pressure basically.

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

Australian player David Warner played a volatile game. It is not an easy task for a player to play alone for so long. he scored 163 runs off 124 balls which is a truly remarkable performance. most of the credit for Australia being able to set such a big target goes to David Warner and Mitchell Marsh who played for a long time and collected most of the runs. I also agree with you that Australia has the potential to win the match. If Australia wins today's match, it will be able to move behind England to the 5th position in the points table.  However, Australia has to perform well in regular matches if they want to do well in this year world cup

Pakistan's game does not look bad but it may not be possible for them to overcome such a big target given by Australia. 145 runs in 22 overs and the loss of 1 wicket does not count as a bad score. But Australia's performance was much better than them and here they were able to give such a big target.  And because of this I agree with you that Australia are much more likely to win the match.  Because Pakistan still need 223 runs in 27 overs which is very difficult to collect. But Pakistan is a good team so if they can collect high runs per over then they can win the match

Despite having good start now they are having collapse as lost their top three wickets cheaply now all on Mohammad Rizwan can he play another big inning, or we are going to have big defeat waiting for them in this match against Australia because this win mean Australia all in with their next match is surely going to give them good boos for the NRR and things are going to have very good turn for the last two spots for top four teams.
Here Look like Pakistan is going to suffer badly in coming big matches against South Africa, England and New Zealand because their batting is having no good depth for the competing at this level specially Babar fail to give his best on this batting pitches which is miserable and going to cost Pakistan as well.

[leonair]

My bet is on Pakistan to win against Australia though it won't be easy since both teams are under a lot of pressure after recent losses. Both teams are pretty weak in the batting and bowling departments.

Whoever bats first could have the advantage since this is a high scoring pitch and chasing increases the pressure basically.

Australia finishes their innings with 367/9, adding just 37 runs in the last seven overs and losing five wickets in the process. Pakistan requires 368 runs to clinch their third victory of the world cup. David Warner and Mitchel Marsh the top performers for their teams in the first innings. The Marsh-show started before the tournament since he was asked to open, and he takes it into world cup. First hundreds for in the World Cup for Mitchell Marsh
Standing tall, hitting it clean and long one of the most dangerous openers around right now. I think 368 big target is very difficult to chase down and Australia have 90% Chances to win this match

Australian player David Warner played a volatile game. It is not an easy task for a player to play alone for so long. he scored 163 runs off 124 balls which is a truly remarkable performance. most of the credit for Australia being able to set such a big target goes to David Warner and Mitchell Marsh who played for a long time and collected most of the runs. I also agree with you that Australia has the potential to win the match. If Australia wins today's match, it will be able to move behind England to the 5th position in the points table.  However, Australia has to perform well in regular matches if they want to do well in this year world cup

Pakistan's game does not look bad but it may not be possible for them to overcome such a big target given by Australia. 145 runs in 22 overs and the loss of 1 wicket does not count as a bad score. But Australia's performance was much better than them and here they were able to give such a big target.  And because of this I agree with you that Australia are much more likely to win the match.  Because Pakistan still need 223 runs in 27 overs which is very difficult to collect. But Pakistan is a good team so if they can collect high runs per over then they can win the match

Despite having good start now they are having collapse as lost their top three wickets cheaply now all on Mohammad Rizwan can he play another big inning, or we are going to have big defeat waiting for them in this match against Australia because this win mean Australia all in with their next match is surely going to give them good boos for the NRR and things are going to have very good turn for the last two spots for top four teams.
Here Look like Pakistan is going to suffer badly in coming big matches against South Africa, England and New Zealand because their batting is having no good depth for the competing at this level specially Babar fail to give his best on this batting pitches which is miserable and going to cost Pakistan as well.

As the number of overs decreases for Pakistan, it becomes more and more difficult for them to win the match. But Pakistan is trying their best to do something good.  But it doesn't look like Pakistan will be able to hold on to the winning streak in the end.  Pakistan's bowling performance was very poor due to which Australia was able to collect such big runs. Pakistan now has to maintain the consistency of 9 runs per over only if they can win the match.  And for that they need a six or a four in every over and keep giving single runs along with it. But I have a lot of respect for Pakistan hard-playing game