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Unchanged Australia bat in bid to go 2-0 up; Muqeem in for Haseebullah

Josh Inglis gives the team talk on captaincy debut Getty Images

Toss Australia chose to bat against Pakistan

Australia have won the toss and elected to bat first. The hosts have a chance to wrap up the T20 series in the second match at the SCG, having romped to a convincing win in the first - a weather-curtailed seven over shootout in Brisbane on Thursday. They go in unchanged from that side, with captain Josh Inglis saying it looked like a good wicket to run up a big score.

Pakistan, who need a win to stay alive, make one alteration. Big-hitting Haseebullah drops down to the bench with left-arm wrist spinner Sufiyan Muqeem coming in. He has played three T20Is before, though those came when Pakistan fielded a second-string side for the Asian Games in Hangzhou last year.

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 Mohammad Rizwan (capt, wk), 3 Sahibzada Farhan, 4 Usman Khan, 5 Salman Agha, 6 Irfan Khan, 7 Abbas Afridi, 8 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 9 Haris Rauf, 10 Naseem Shah, 11 Sufiyan Muqeem