The Australian team maintained their winning streak in the second match of the three-match T20 series against Pakistan and now take a 2-0 lead in the series with a 13-run win at the Sydney Cricket Ground. In the second match, the Australian team won the toss and elected to bat first, scoring 147 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, there was a very poor batting performance from the Pakistani team and the entire team was restricted to just 134 runs in 19.4 overs. The role of their left-arm fast bowler Spencer Johnson was very important in this victory of Australia who took a total of 5 wickets.
Four batsmen of the Pakistani team returned to the pavilion for zero runs.
In this match, the Pakistani team had a very poor batting in which Agha Salman, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah and Sufian Mukeem could not even open their account. At the same time, the Pakistan team also equaled an old record of their own, making it the second time in a Pakistan T20 International innings that four players failed to even open their account. Before this in the year 2013 against South Africa in the match played at Dublin ground, four batsmen of Pakistan team were dismissed without opening the account. This is Australia’s sixth consecutive win against Pakistan in T20 Internationals.
Spencer Johnson became the third bowler to achieve this feat against Pakistan
The match at the Sydney ground saw the dominance of the fast bowlers with Haris Rauf taking four wickets for Pakistan while Spencer Johnson managed to open the claws for the Australian team. In this match, Jones took 5 wickets for just 26 runs, the best performance of his T20 international career so far. Apart from this, Johnson also became the fourth bowler to take 5 wickets in T20 Internationals against Pakistan, while he is the sixth bowler from Australia to do so in this format. Now the last match of this series will be played on November 18 at Hobart ground.
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