The left-arm speedster was breathing fire with the new ball as he troubled the Pakistan openers Saim Ayyub and Abdullah Shafique in a hostile spell. The veteran seamer was rewarded for his consistency as he managed to dismiss both openers and completed 100 wickets on Australian soil in ODIs. Starc became the sixth bowler from his country to achieve the feat and joined an elite company with legends namely Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Craig McDermott and Steve Waugh. Starc started the proceedings by dismissing debutant Saim Ayyub in his second over who got an inside edge back onto his stumps. He further got rid of Abdullah Shafique who mistakenly ended up edging him to wicketkeeper Josh Inglis while trying to leave the delivery. Later, he shattered Shaheen Afridi's stumps to register his third wicket of the match and finished with figures of 3/33 in ten overs. Meanwhile, Pakistan struggled throughout their innings as they failed to keep the run-flow going. After losing both openers on 24, new white-ball captain  Mohammad Rizwan scored 44 on his ODI captaincy debut The duo added 39 runs for the third wicket to calm the nerves in the dressing room but failed to take it ahead as Zampa cleaned up Babar for 37 (44). After losing his partner, Rizwan continued to occupy the crease at one end and took the scoreboard forward. He was dismissed six runs short of his half-century falling prey to Marnus Labuschagne for 44 (71). Agha Salman (12 off 29) and Shaheen Afridi (24 off 19) also made valuable contributions for Pakistan down the order. The visitors were 172/7 after 41 overs with Naseem Shah (13*) and Irfan Khan (20*) at the crease.