New Zealand selected to bat towards Australia
Clarkson has been named at No. 6 for New Zealand with speedster Lockie Ferguson coming back from damage having missed the Super Smash ultimate for Auckland.
New Zealand are in good type within the format having defeated Pakistan 4-1 at dwelling final month. Santner is captaining within the sequence instead of Kane Williamson who’s awaiting the start of his third baby.
New Zealand are additionally with out injured fast Matt Henry, whereas allrounder Daryl Mitchell is recovering from a foot damage.
Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Travis Head return after lacking Australia’s latest 2-1 T20I sequence victory over West Indies.
With Josh Hazlewood and legspinner Adam Zampa additionally within the line-up, Australia will discipline their full-strength frontline assault as Starc and Cummins return having been rested since Australia’s dwelling Test summer time wrapped up late final month.
Wicketkeeper Matthew Wade is on paternity go away and can miss this match with Josh Inglis to take the gloves. Inglis will bat at No. 5, whereas Head opens as anticipated alongside David Warner.
With the T20 World Cup simply over three months away, the three-match sequence is the ultimate preparation for each groups as they give the impression of being to decide on squads for the match to be performed within the United States and the Caribbean.
The trans-Tasman rivals shall be preventing for the Chappell-Hadlee trophy, which had beforehand solely been awarded to the winner of bilateral ODI sequence between the groups.
New Zealand: 1 Finn Allen, 2 Devon Conway (wk), 3 Rachin Ravindra, 4 Glenn Phillips, 5 Mark Chapman, 6 Josh Clarkson, 7 Mitchell Santner (capt), 8 Tim Southee, 9 Adam Milne, 10 Ish Sodhi, 11 Lockie Ferguson
Australia: 1 Travis Head, 2 David Warner, 3 Mitchell Marsh (capt), 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Josh Inglis (wk), 6 Tim David, 7 Matthew Short, 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Adam Zampa, 11 Josh Hazlewood
Source web site: www.espncricinfo.com
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