Player of the Match
Player of the Match

That's it from us from the second T20I between Australia and Pakistan. The visitors can't win the series now, but can still pull one back to leave the country with a win. It was a tight finish in Sydney tonight, though, and this is Himanshu signing off on behalf of Sudeep and Danyal. Good night, and take care!

Dave: "Australia fumbled around a little in the last ten overs, but the result was never in doubt. 2-0."

Josh Inglis: "We thought we were there and thereabouts... really happy."

Mohammad Rizwan: "If you take the positives, the boys bowled very well. We know Australia is not an easy team; if we give them chances... all the boys bowled well. I prepare myself as to what the conditions demand."

Spencer Johnson is the Player of the Match: "It's an opportunity I don't take lightly. You never know when it's your last game for Australia. It's probably a different bowling unit than what we're used to in Australia."

Time for the presentations

Adam Zampa: "It's a great night here at the SCG. To win a series against Pakistan feels good. A lot of games here feel like away games... it was very impressive. Johnson bowls fast. He hasn't played a lot of cricket."

Furqan: "Pak lost the match in first 9 overs, where they didn't hit a boundary off the bat. Unacceptable in this day and age."

10.47pm A game full of twists, turns, and nudges and nurdles. Take a look at ESPNcricinfo's forecaster graph, and you'll know how much this match swung one way and the other until even the last over. But Pakistan were 44 for 4 in the tenth over, and in a hole in their chase of 148 on a slow and gripping pitch. Usman fought back with a fifty, and Irfan kept Pakistan's hopes alive, but Johnson's five-for meant Australia remained ahead for most stages.

19.4
W
Ellis to Irfan Khan, 1 run, OUT, a high-ish full toss around off, and dispatched to long-on. Two is the call, but amid confusion and mix-up, Rauf is run-out! The throw from long-on arrives at the keeper's end, with both batters almost finishing at the bowler's end. Rauf pushed for the second, but anyway, one of them would have been run-out, given it was near impossible to take two there. Australia go 2-0 up in the three-match series

Haris Rauf run out 2 (6m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 66.66

15 off 3...

Pakistan 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st12Mohammad RizwanBabar Azam
2nd5Mohammad RizwanSahibzada Farhan
3rd27Mohammad RizwanUsman Khan
4th0Agha SalmanUsman Khan
5th58Usman KhanIrfan Khan
6th4Abbas AfridiIrfan Khan
7th1Shaheen Shah AfridiIrfan Khan
8th0Naseem ShahIrfan Khan
9th20Irfan KhanSufiyan Muqeem
10th7Haris RaufIrfan Khan