Australia is the current world champions in one day international and also leads the test teams of the world. Recently Australia played India and new Zealand and won both the series Comprehensively and now it is playing new Zealand in the one day internationals.

Pakistan team on the other hand is ranked in the middle of the world test ratings and most of the players in it are new and young and due to that they have less experience as compared to Australians and have to work hard in the series to win it. But it is not easy for the Pakistani team to not only play well but also beat Australia as many of the players in the Pakistani team is young and less experienced.

Pakistan is touring Australia after 2 years and in which Pakistan will play Three Tests and a trination one day international series in which west Indies will be the third team.

The test series will start from 16th December 2004 to 6th January 2005, and the one day series will be played from 14th January. These were some fixtures and details about the Australian and Pakistani team after that the current positons of both the teams are discussed . Australia as we know is the best team in the Cricketing world have world class batsmen namely Ricky Pointing , Adam Gilchrist , Mathew Hayden, Darren Lehman etc . and bowlers are Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie , Shane Warne etc.

However the Pakistani team which is very new and young side are based on only Inzamam ul haq , Yousuf Yohanna Shoaib akhtar Mohammad Sami , Abdur Razak and Shoaib Malik. There are some youngsters also in the Pakistani team which are proving to be promising namely Salman butt . Danish kaneria, which is the only specialist leg spinner in the team the whole team depend on him in the spin department though shoaib malik gives him good support but surprisingly Shahid Afridi is also selected in the test team on the bases of his previous good performances against Austraila in Australia.

In the end it is concluded that Pakistan team would have to work really hard and not only the coach and captain would have to work hard but also all the players new players should work harder in order to face the challenging Australian bowling attack and batting department.

FAHAD AHMED DOING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FROM KARACHI UNIVERSITY fahadahmed_3310@hotmail.com