Australia’s Matthew Wade was dropped by Hasan Ali off Shaheen Afridi in the 19th over. Then, Wade hit humongous maximums consecutively to give Australia a 5-wicket victory over Pakistan in the T20 World Cup semis. What everybody is calling a turning point of the match, Wade downplayed the event and said that his team would’ve gotten the job done anyway.

Aaron Finch and Co displayed tremendous grit to chase down a stiff target of 177.

Wade, apart from opener David Warner (49 off 30 balls), was the hero for the Australians with a splendid 17-ball 41.

“…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,” Wade said at the post-match press conference.

“I get out there and we’re not sure what’s going to happen, obviously, but I would still be pretty confident with Pat (Cummins) coming in and Marcus (Stoinis) 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,” he added.

However, the dropped catch was viewed differently by Pakistan captain Babar Azam.

“The turning point was that dropped catch. Had we taken it, the scenario could have been different,” Babar had stated.

The 33-year-old Wade thought otherwise and said his experience came in handy while handling the tense chase Thursday night.

“It certainly helps. Just to be in that situation…experience is key in these games even though we lost a few early wickets and things weren’t going our way early,” he said.

“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,” Wade said.

“…by the time the catch 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,” he stated.