Shake Pakistan chose align vs Australia
Returning quicks Lance Morris and Spencer Johnson will have to wait to be released amid five changes for Australia after Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl in the series-deciding third ODI at the Optus Stadium.
Fast Sean Abbott, who played in the series opener, also returned to Australia along with experienced all-rounder and Perth local Marcus Stoinis. All-rounder Cooper Connolly is listed to bat at No. 5, while Johnson and Morris were selected in place of Xavier Bartlett.
All-rounder Aaron Hardie has been listed to bat at number 3, the position he plays for Perth Scorchers in the BBL.
Australia are without skipper Pat Cummins, Steven Smith, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Marnus Labuschagne, who have set their sights on preparing for the first Test against India.
Josh Inglis, 29, becomes Australia’s 30th ODI captain and will also lead his team in the upcoming T20I series against Pakistan. Given his heavy workload with the gloves, Inglis never took charge of Western Australia or Scorchers in the BBL, but captained a very strong Prime Minister’s XI in a first-class match against the West Indies two years ago.
After an impressive nine-wicket win in Adelaide, bouncing back from a two-wicket loss at the MCG, Pakistan are on the brink of a rare series win in Australia. Their pace attack, led by the in-form Haris Rauf, will relish the prospect of the expected pace and bounce conditions at the Optus Stadium.
Pakistan named the same tour.
It has been a relatively mild spring in Perth and comfortable temperatures of around 20 degrees are expected throughout the day. A crowd of around 20,000 is expected for the first ODI at Optus Stadium since 2018.
Australia: 1 Matt Short, 2 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 3 Aaron Hardie, 4 Josh Inglis (captain, week), 5 Cooper Connolly, 6 Glenn Maxwell, 7 Marcus Stoinis, 8 Sean Abbott, 9 Adam Zampa, 10 Spencer Johnson, 11 Lance Morris
Pakistan: 1 Saim Ayub, 2 Abdullah Shafique, 3 Babar Azam, 4 Mohammad Rizwan (captain, week), 5 Kamran Ghulam, 6 Salman Agha, 7 Irfan Khan, 8 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 9 Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah, 11 Mohammad Hasnain
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