AUS vs PAK 2024/25, AUS vs PAK 3rd T20I Match Report, 18 Nov 2024

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Throw Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first Australia

Pakistan have won the toss and decided to bat first in the third and final T20I. Salman Agha, who captains the team in place of Mohammad Rizwan, who missed out today, will be looking to avoid an Australian clean sheet after the hosts won the first two T20Is. This game, played in Hobart, is the final contest of the tour, with Pakistan moving to Zimbabwe for another white-ball series starting later this week.
Haseebullah Khan returns to the side and will keep the wicket while Jahandad Khan makes his international debut. Australia are unchanged and field the same side for the third game in a row.

Jahandad is a young left-arm bowler and left-arm medium pacer from Rawalpindi. He distinguished himself with impressive performances for Pakistan TV in the Presidents Cup and the Stallions in the Champions One-Day Cup over the last few months. He also played the last season of PSL for Lahore Qalandars.

Australia: 1 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 2 Matt Short, 3 Josh Inglis (capt, wk), 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Tim David, 6 Marcus Stoinis, 7 Aaron Hardie, 8 Xavier Bartlett, 9 Nathan Ellis, 10 Adam Zampa, 11 Spencer Johnson

Pakistan: 1 Babar Azam, 2 Sahibzada Farhan, 3 Haseebullah Khan (wk), 4 Usman Khan, 5 Salman Agha (capt), 6 Irfan Khan, 7 Abbas Afridi, 8 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 9 Jahandad Khan, 10 Haris Rauf, 11 Sufiyan Muqeem