West Indies vs Australia LIVE: Fraser-McGurk dropped as Australia hunt 2-0 series lead in Jamaica
Australia win the toss and bowl first again
Mitch Marsh wins another toss and chooses to chase a target again.
The Australians have left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann to make his T20 debut in place of Sean Abbott, and Tim David is back from a hamstring niggle, relegating Jake Fraser-McGurk to drinks duties. Josh Inglis will open with Marsh.
Mitch Owen will be hoping to repeat his superb debut in the first game
West Indies are unchanged.
West Indies XI: Brandon King, Shai Hope (capt), Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Sherfane Rutherford, Andre Russell, Jason Holder, Gudakesh Motie, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph
Australia XI: Mitch Marsh (capt), Josh Inglis, Cameron Green, Glenn Maxwell, Tim David, Mitch Owen, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Matt Kuhnemann, Adam Zampa.
9.37am
India and England getting spicier by the minute
Over in Manchester, the fourth Test between England and India is set to be even livelier than the memorable third game at Lord's, which Ben Stokes' team won narrowly after making a conscious choice to resort to sledging.
The apparent catalyst for this approach was when India's captain Shubman Gill had a go at England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett for wasting time on the third evening, ensuring they faced only one over in seven minutes rather than two.
Gill opened up about the episode on match eve at Old Trafford, levelling the accusation that England had not behaved in the spirit of the game - always a tetchy subject.
'A lot of people have been talking about this so let me clear the air for once and for all,' Gill said. 'The English batsmen on that day had seven minutes of play left. They were 90 seconds late to come to the crease. Not 10, not 20 – 90 seconds late. Yes, most teams [do] this, in that position we would have also liked to play less overs, but there is a manner to do it.
'Yes, if you get hit on your body the physios are allowed to come on and that is something that is fair, but to be able to come 90 seconds late to the crease is not something that I would think comes in the spirit of the game, and just leading up to that event a lot of things that we thought should not have happened, they happened.
'It's not something I'm very proud of but there was a lead‑up and a build‑up to that. It didn't just come out of nowhere. We had no intention of doing that whatsoever, but you are playing a game, you are playing to win and there are a lot of emotions involved and, when you see there are things happening that should not happen, sometimes the emotions come out of nowhere.'
Juicy stuff, just 24 hours after Harry Brook revealed the dressing room meetings that had England deciding to tactically sledge India.
As for Stokes, his defence of England came with the following words: 'At not one stage did we go over the line.' Ah, the line, once beloved of Australia, is now the stuff of Bazball.
9.37am
Welcome to game two - Andre Russell's last for the West Indies
Hello and welcome to our coverage of the second T20 between Australia and the West Indies at Sabina Park in Jamaica.
Game one was defined by Australian power - 17 sixes in all - and a superb debut by 23-year-old Mitch Owen alongside a rapid half century for Cameron Green. Mitch Marsh's team also bowled and fielded with great resilience after a fast start by the hosts.
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