Australia bowl first against South Africa in second T20
The teams made two changes each on Tuesday with Alex Carey flown in as cover for Josh Inglis, who struggled in the first match with flu-like symptoms and made a first ball duck, and seamer Sean Abbott replacing Nathan Ellis.
South Africe dropped spinners George Linde and Senuran Muthusamy, replacing them with 23-year-old leg-spinner Nqaba Peter and batsman Rassie van der Dussen.
Carey is part of the one-day squad scheduled to play a three-match series in Cairns and Mackay over the next fortnight after the third Twenty20 game in Cairns on Saturday.
The teams have contrasting form coming into the series. Australia have won an unprecedented 23 of their last 27 T20Is, including a 5-0 clean sweep in the Caribbean last month, while the Proteas have managed only six wins from their last 13 matches and have not won any of their last three bilateral series.
Teams: Australia: Travis Head, Mitch Marsh (capt), Alex Carey (wkt), Cameron Green, Tim David, Mitch Owen, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Sean Abbott, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.
South Africa: Aiden Markram (c), Ryan Rickelton (wk), Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Dewald Brevis, Tristan Stubbs, Rassie van der Dussen, Corbin Bosch, Kagiso Rabada, Nqaba Peter, Kwena Maphaka, Lungi Ngidi.
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