NATHAN Hauritz rounded off an outstanding summer by bowling Australia to a Test victory for the third successive occasion as the home side completed a record-equalling 12th successive win against Pakistan at Bellerive Oval.

Australia needed until only an hour after lunch to bowl Pakistan out for 206 as the visitors never threatened to get anywhere near their record victory target of 438 and lost by 231 runs.

Only recalled number three batsman Khurram Manzoor offered any resistance on the final day with a gutsy half-century to make amends for his first-innings duck.

The result secured a fourth successive 3-0 clean sweep of Pakistan by Australia in a Test series and equals the record for most successive Test wins by any team against the same opponent in Test history – 12, which was held solely by Sri Lanka against Bangladesh.

It means Australia have now won five of six Tests this summer – with only a draw in the second Test against the West Indies in Adelaide preventing a clean sweep of a summer in which Hauritz came of age as well as all-rounder Shane Watson who was adjudged player-of-the-series.

After taking his first five-wicket hauls in the second innings of Australia’s wins in Melbourne and Sydney, Hauritz helped himself to three more on the final day in Hobart to finish with an impressive 29 wickets in six Tests for the summer.

And considering that before this summer Hauritz had taken just 24 wickets in seven Test matches, it shows just how much the off-spinner has improved this summer – particularly during the three-Test series against Pakistan in which he claimed 18 wickets at an average of 23.05 during the three Tests.

Hauritz’s haul on the final day also included the key wicket of Manzoor, who, after being recalled to the team for this Test after being overlooked for Pakistan’s defeats in Melbourne and Sydney, batted through the entire two-and-a-half-hour first session as play began 30 minutes early to make up for play lost on day four. (Eurosport)
AUSTRALIA innings 519 (Ponting 209, M. Clarke 166)
Pakistan first innings 301 (S. Butt 102, S. Malik 58)
Australia second innings 219 for 8 declared (S. Katich 100, R. Ponting 89)
PAKISTAN second innings o/n 103 for 4
I. Farhat c (wkp.) Haddin b Siddle 14
S. Butt b Bollinger 8
K. Manzoor c Haddin b Hauritz 77
M. Yousuf lbw b Watson 23
U. Akmal lbw b Watson 15
S. Malik c Haddin b Siddle 19
S. Ahmed c Clarke b Hauritz 5
M. Aamer not out 30
U. Gul c Clarke b Hauritz 0
M. Asif b Johnson 0
D. Kaneria b Siddle 1
Extras: (b-10, lb-3, nb-1) 14
Total: (all out 86.2 overs) 206
Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-29, 3-61, 4-83, 5-104, 6-123, 7-189, 8-191, 9-192.
Bowling: D. Bollinger 13-4-31-1, P. Siddle 15.2-7-25-3, M. Johnson 21-4-59-1, S. Watson 17-4-38-2, N. Hauritz 17-6-30-3.