Pakistan chose to bowl against Australia
Sean Abbott is the player who left the team that played in Melbourne and got over the line by two wickets after the Pakistan quicks, especially Haris Rauf, shook up the middle order.
Pakistan named an unchanged team, resisting the temptation to bring in a frontline player, and will play first after Mohammad Rizwan won the toss. Pat Cummins said he too would have bowled on a surface with good grass cover, but he expected it to work well throughout. Naseem Shah is fit after leaving the field late in the game at the MCG.
Hazlewood, Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Steven Smith and Marnus Labuschagne will skip the Perth match on Sunday to focus on preparations for the India Test series, meaning that if Pakistan can force the series to a decisive finish, they will face a significantly changed equipment.
Australia 1 Matt Short, 2 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 3 Steven Smith, 4 Josh Inglis, 5 Marnus Labuschagne, 6 Aaron Hardie, 7 Glenn Maxwell, 8 Pat Cummins (captain), 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Adam Zampa, 11 Josh Hazlewood
Pakistan 1 Saim Ayub, 2 Abdullah Shafique, 3 Babar Azam, 4 Mohammad Rizwan (captain and week), 5 Kamran Ghulam, 6 Salman Agha, 7 Irfan Khan, 8 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 9 Naseem Shah, 10 Haris Rauf, 11 Mohammad Hasnain
