Australia tour-ending T20I clash with Pakistan today at Qaddafi Stadium 

By: News Desk
Published: 09:32 AM, 5 Apr, 2022
Australia tour-ending T20I clash with Pakistan today at Qaddafi Stadium 
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In a one-off T20I at the end of the tour, the spectators are expecting high-voltage game amid all the stadium tickets are sold out. It's a meeting of two in-form T20I sides: Australia have won ten of their last 12 matches [one after a Super Over against Sri Lanka] and Pakistan 11 of their last 12 - the only defeat being their T20 World Cup semi-final exit.

What either team can take from the match is debatable, but it's another game on the road to the next men's T20 World Cup later this year in Australia

This contest brings together two of the semi-finalists from last year's event where Australia prevailed in a thrilling finish with Matthew Wade and Marcus Stoinis taking them to victory. 

It will be a very different looking Australia side for this game, though, with only three players from that semi-final - Stoinis, Aaron Finch and Adam Zampa - set to take the field with the rest absent for a variety of seasons.

The visitors will field a very different side from when the teams last met while Pakistan may be able to welcome back Shadab Khan 

Pakistan (possible) 1 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 2 Babar Azam (capt), 3 Fakhar Zaman, 4, Asif Ali, 5 Iftikhar Ahmed, 6 Haider Ali, 7 Khushdil Shah, 8 Shadab Khan, 9 Mohammad Wasim, 10 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 10 Haris Rauf

Australia (possible) 1 Aaron Finch (capt), 2 Travis Head, 3 Ben McDermott, 4 Josh Inglis/Alex Carey (wk), 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Sean Abbott, 8 Ashton Agar/Mitchell Swepson, 9 Nathan Ellis, 10 Adam Zampa, 11 Jason Behrendorff 

Babar and Rizwan have an average partnership of 56.65 in T20Is - the third highest of any pairing with a minimum 20 innings. Australia's highest is 36.66 between Finch and David Warner.

Three of Finch's last four innings against Pakistan have been ducks.

Pakistan's Babar-XI won the ODI series and Australia Pat Cummings-XI won the test series.