Pakistan's team collapsed for just 134 runs in front of Australia's young bowling unit led by Spencer Johnson. With this, Australia won the second T20 match by a margin of 13 runs. This is Australia's second consecutive win in the 3-match T20 series. With this, Australia has taken an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the series.
Australia batted first and scored 147 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing this target, Pakistan was all out in 19.4 overs and could only score 134 runs. Usman Khan scored a half-century for Pakistan. Apart from him, Irfan Khan scored 37 runs in 28 balls. The rest of the batsmen of Pakistan failed miserably. Captain Mohammad Rizwan scored 16 runs and returned to the pavilion on the ball of Spencer Johnson.
Spencer Johnson wreaked havoc.
Australia's fast bowler Spencer Johnson broke the back of Pakistan batsmen in the beginning. Johnson sent 5 important batsmen to the pavilion. Apart from him, spin bowler Adam Zampa took 2 wickets while Xavier Bartlett dismissed Babar Azam for 3 runs. The last 2 batsmen of Pakistan became victims of run out.
Rauf and Afridi did wonders again
The Australian captain won the toss and decided to bat first. After which the Pakistani bowlers proved Josh Inglis' decision wrong. Haris Rauf, who created a stir with his bowling in the ODI series, did wonders again.
Rauf sent 4 batsmen to the pavilion by spending 22 runs in his 4 overs. This includes the wickets of batsmen like captain Josh Inglis and Tim David. Apart from them, Abbas Afridi took 3 wickets by giving 17 runs in 4 overs. Spin bowler Sufiyan Muqeem took 2 big wickets.
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