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Q1. Two ends that Pakistani fans will never forget. How hard was it targeting one of the finest bowlers of T20 and current bowler of the tournament Shaheen Afridi? How hard was it targeting him?

MATTHEW WADE: We didn't really target him, to be honest. Marcus Stoinis played a terrific innings to be able to get it to a total we started to think could be chaseable toward the end there. I think the way he played freed me up to be able to do what I did at the end there. Obviously, I was hitting to a little bit of a longer boundary to him. But we felt like the left-arm, the slow balls would spin into me.

I thought of the old target, him a little bit more, I suppose, in that over. I thought if Marcus was there in the last over it would give us a good chance to win the game. If Rauf bowled the last over, he did very well off him -- the previous over, he had faced off him. That was kind of our thinking.

We certainly didn't go into the game targeting. He's a terrific bowler, and I just got lucky tonight, I suppose.

Q2. Was that drop a turning point of this match? And my other question, the Australian team is the most experienced team of all teams with a lot of senior players. Do you think in a knockout round, pressure match, experience does matter?

MATTHEW WADE: It certainly helps. Just to be in that situation, I think, even the first game to be batting with Marcus in that South African game and us working really well together and getting some time in helps as well, but experience is key in these games even though we lost a few early wickets and things weren't going our way early.

There was no real panic in the dressing room. We've got experience the whole way down. And the same with the ball. At times it felt like we were going for 12 and 13 and over. With this crowd, it felt like we were behind the game the whole time, but you look at the ball it was seven, eight, nine and over. It wasn't like we were getting put all over the park.

But in those scenarios I think experience really helps to be able to slow the game down a little bit and be able to dictate what we want to do a little bit more. I think T20 we all thought it was going to be a young man's game when we came in. But certainly the more experienced players tend to have a little bit more success towards the back end of their careers.

So, yeah, it's hard to say. The dropped catch, I'm not sure. I think we needed 12 or something, 14 maybe at that stage. I felt like the game was starting to swing in our direction at that stage anyway. I get out there and we're not sure what's going to happen, obviously, but I would still be pretty confident with Pat coming in and Marcus still at the crease, that we could have got the job done anyway. I wouldn't say that was the reason why we won the game.

Q3. Australia played very well and made a match. Was there any hope before that catch was dropped?

MATTHEW WADE: As I just said, I think by the time that the catch drop went down I was pretty confident we were in a really good position to get the runs. If that had happened three or four overs before hand, that would dictate the outcome of the game a little bit more.

I think we must have needed 14 because I came back and I think we needed 12 after that. So he takes that, we needed 14 or whatever it was, eight or nine balls. As I said, Patty Cummins was coming in next. Marcus was hitting the ball as well as anyone out there tonight.

You can focus in on the things that happen really late in the game, but there's plenty of things that go on without it -- throughout a whole game that can dictate a little bit. But I don't think -- I hope that wouldn't have too much of an effect, on the outcome of the game.

Q4. What did you think -- what was the turning point of the match? Those three run-outs which were missed or that catch drop by Hasan Ali?

MATTHEW WADE: I don't think any of them were the turning points of the match. I think the way Marcus Stoinis batted at the end, to be honest, was probably the turning point of the match.

I think when I came out there, he might have hit the spinner for six, the first ball when I got out there. I think that kind of play, in my eyes, he's really gutsy in those decisions that you make out in the middle, win you games. He could have easily blocked that ball he went for, hit a six and then that total comes down a little bit more.

But I think the turning point of the game I thought was Marcus's over against Rauf. I thought that kind of swung the momentum our way and gave us an opportunity to win the game. It's just an easy thing to do to focus in on missed chances. Yes, maybe it would have gone down late in the last over, but I'm still confident we could have gone home.

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