Shaun Tait devastated Pakistan to help his side to sweep one-off Twenty20 International at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Tait’s quickest delivery is understood to be the fastest recorded in Australia and the third-fastest of all time, as only Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar have bowled quicker.

The visitors ended their awful tour losing all matches of their tour as Australia sees off Pakistan by 2 runs in the only T20I – a contest which was thrilled a full house at the MCG with the record crowd of 60,054 – the biggest of the season.

Pakistan after winning the toss opted to bat first to restrict the opponent at 127 with Umar Gul took three for 20 with Shoaib Malik snapping two wickets with the cost of 31 runs. The tourist were outstanding in the field – a rare exhibit by the visitors who however has lost each and every match on their awful tour.

Australia bounced back strongly to recover from 5-78 to post 128 all out as only Micheal Clarke (32), David Warner (24) and David Hussey (40 not out) reached double figures. Pakistan never really let the hosts dominat as some tight bowling from Gul (3-20) and Malik (2-31) and rare sharp fielding, which included three run-outs wipe through Aussies line-up.

But Aussies were bounce back with the ball, as besides Tait, Dirk Nannes, Shane Watson and Mitchell Johnson all bowled timely all important maidens and Nannes conceded just two runs in the penultimate over to dent Pakistan. Watson finished with 2-24 and debutant legspinner Steven Smith took 2-34.

Gul (10) was the only Pakistan batsman to reach double figures behind the Akmal brothers as both Kamran (64 off 33 balls) and Umar (21 off 25 balls) helped the side to surpass 100 mark but with timely departure of both blasters, Aussies curb back Pakistan two runs short to secure a sizzling victory.

Aussies skipper Clarke said he had to keep attacking if Australia were to win and paid tribute to his bowlers’ efforts. “We got there. It was an amazing performance with the ball and in the field as well. The guys did really well,” he said. “The Wild Thing (Tait), it’s great to have him back in the team and bowling like that. He led from the front and Taity got the results tonight, but I also thought Dirky, Mitchell and Watto and young Steve Smith on debut did a fanstatic job under a lot of pressure tonight.”

Tait said he was keen to one day surpass Akhtar’s record mark of 161.3 km/h. “There’s only certain moments when you’re bowling in your career when you’ve got a chnace to do it,” he said. “I was saying to the boys before you’ve probably got only two balls in a game – tonight it was my third ball – and I had a crack the next ball after that just to have a go, but after that it’s hard to get up to that pace.” Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik said the defeat was another missed opportunity by his team.”