Pakistani cricket team in Australia in 2016–17

Pakistani cricket team in Australia in 2016–17
	Australia	Pakistan
Dates	8 December 2016 – 26 January 2017
Captains	Steve Smith	Misbah-ul-Haq (Tests) Azhar Ali (1st, 4th & 5th ODIs) Mohammad Hafeez (2nd & 3rd ODIs)
Test series
Result	Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Steve Smith (441)	Azhar Ali (406)
Most wickets	Josh Hazlewood (15)	Wahab Riaz (11)
Player of the series	Steve Smith (Aus)
One Day International series
Results	Australia won the 5-match series 4–1
Most runs	David Warner (367)	Babar Azam (282)
Most wickets	Mitchell Starc (9)	Hasan Ali (12)
Player of the series	David Warner (Aus)

The Pakistani cricket team toured Australia in December 2016 to play three Test matches and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). The 1st Test at The Gabba in Brisbane was a day/night match played with a pink ball. In preparation for the first Test, ten matches in Pakistan's 2016–17 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and the first round of matches in Australia's 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season were played as day/night matches.

This is Pakistan's 17th tour of Australia, with their previous tour occurring in 2009–10. During that tour they lost both the Test and the ODI series in a clean sweep and also lost the only T20I match. The last time that these teams met was 2014–15 in the United Arab Emirates where Pakistan won the Test series 2–0 but Australia won the ODI series 3–0. The Australians come into this Test series after recently losing their previous two series – against Sri Lanka abroad and to South Africa at home. They enter the ODI series after a 4–1 series victory against Sri Lanka, a 9 wicket win over Ireland and a 5–0 series defeat away to South Africa – the first time that Australia had lost all five matches in a five-match ODI series. However, immediately prior to this series, Australia won back the Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, defeating New Zealand in a 3–0 whitewash.

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