ABU DHABI: Australia win toss and elect to bowl first in the first Twenty20 against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi.
Australia captain Aaron Finch won the toss and chose to bowl first in the first Twenty20 match against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi.
Finch’s side is unchanged from the XI that defeated the UAE by seven wickets on Monday.
That me
ans the explosive D’Arcy
Short will partner Finch at the top of the Austr
alia order, with Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell and Ben McDermott to form the middle order.
The bowling line-up will consist of paceman Billy Stanlake, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Andrew Tye, with Adam Zampa and Ashton Agar to provide the spinning options.
Fakhar Zaman and Babar Azam are scheduled to open the Pakistan innings, with the experienced Sarfraz Ahme
d named as captain and wicketkeeper.
Playing XI
Pakistan
Sarfraz Ahmed (c) Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Hussain Talat, Mohammad Hafeez, Asif Ali, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan
Ali, Shaheen Afridi
Australia
Aaron Finch (c), D’Arcy
Short, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Ben McDermott, Alex Carey (wk), Ashton Agar, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa, Billy Stanlake
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