Pakistan's 22-year wait to win in Australia ended on Sunday when Mohammad Rizwan-led team won the ODI series 2-1, with a comprehensive eight-wicket win in the decider at the Perth Stadium.
After narrowly losing the first ODI in Melbourne, Pakistan made a remarkable comeback to level the series with a nine-wicket triumph in Adelaide before clinching the winners' trophy in the final game of the series.
The build-up to the tour was not ideal, as the white-ball coach Gary Kirsten stepped down days before the team's departure, forcing the Pakistan Cricket Board to appoint their red-ball coach Jason Gillespie as a stop-gap arrangement.
The new coach-captain duo of Gillespie and Rizwan got the team together in style, with a three-word plan that showed up in a dressing-room video shared by the Pakistan Cricket Board on its YouTube channel.
While the team's leadership lauded the players' effort, a white board displayed in the dressing room had three words written on it: 'calm, clear, execute'.
Addressing the team, Gillespie also mentioned those words in his congratulatory speech after the third ODI.
WATCH Pakistan and Australia will next play a series of three T20Is, beginning on Thursday.
It will be followed by a tour of Zimbabwe, which will see Pakistan engaging in a series of three ODIs and as many T20Is from November 24 to December 5.
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