Key events
Team news
Australia are unchanged. Pakistan bring in the left-arm wrist spinner Sufiyan Muqeem for Haseebullah Khan.
Australia Short, Fraser-McGurk, Inglis (c/wk), Maxwell, Stoinis, David, Hardie, Ellis, Bartlett, Johnson, Zampa.
Pakistan Sahibzada Farhan, Mohammad Rizwan (c/wk), Babar Azam, Usman Khan, Salman Agha, Irfan Khan, Abbas Afridi, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Sufiyan Muqeem.
Australia win the toss and bat
Mohammad Rizwan calls incorrectly and Josh Inglis is happy to bat first, as Australia did in the first T20.
Preamble
Rob Smyth
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the second T20 international between Australia and Pakistan in Sydney. The Brisbane weather turned the first game turned into a Seven7, won handsomely by Australia, but happily today’s forecast is much better so we should get a full game. Another win would give Australia the series with a match to spare.
The first T20I was notable for Glenn Maxwell’s hitting and a devastating new-ball burst from Xavier Bartlett (3 for 12) and Nathan Ellis (3 for 9). Bartlett has made an eye-catching start to his international career, taking 17 wickets at 9.23 across both white-ball codes. Australia will soon need a new pace attack across all three formats; Bartlett, Ellis and Spencer Johnson will be hoping to impress again tonight.
The match starts at 7pm AEDT.
