Pakistan can regain lead

Australia levelled the one-day series with Pakistan by winning the second match on Friday but there is no reason why the "home" side can not regain the lead by taking match three, to be played in Abu Dhabi on Monday.

Australia are the more consistent of the two sides but they too are still in transition and the rest of this series will come down to how inspired Pakistan can be on the given days.

Bet365 make the Aussies 8/13 to win it, while Pakistan are 13/10. Abu Dhabi will offer pretty similar conditions to those the two teams enjoyed in the first two matches in Dubai, so there is little to be read into the changes of venues.

Pakistan, do, though, need to improve their batting if they are to win two of the remaining three matches, and captain Younis Khan will hoping to lead from the front. He is the 3/1 favourite with bet365 to top-score for his side, with Salman Butt 10/3.

Then there is a little gap to Nasir Jamshed, at 5/1, the same price as Shoaib Malik and Misbah-ul-Haq. Ahmed Shahzad is 6/1 and Kamran Akmal, always dangerous, is 7/1.

For the Aussies, Brad Haddin and Shane Watson, at the top of the order, are the joint favourites at 7/2, with captain Michael Clarke on offer at 4/1 and James Hopes 5/1. Andrew Symonds, the star of Friday's win, is 11/2 and David Hussey is 8/1.

For me, it's a 50-50 pick on this one, so that makes Pakistan'sprice of 13/10 the only value.