Can disarrayed Pakistan stop Australian juggernaut?

CANBERRA -- The rains in New South Wales and across the east coast of Australia this week brought so much relief to farmers in the drought stricken region that there were videos of people dancing and celebrating in the streets. One set of foreigners who might gladly have partaken in such merriment was the visiting Pakistan cricket team in Sydney, staring defeat in the face when the heavens opened, forcing the abandonment of a game that Australia looked to be easing through. While that means Aaron Finch's men don't go to Canberra with a 1-0 lead, they do enter the contest with significant momentum. Australia are on something of a T20I tear at the moment, having won their last five completed games. They swatted Sri Lanka aside 3-0 just last week, the team that less than a month ago did the same to Pakistan in Lahore. David Warner finds himself in irresistible form again, as does Finch, who looked imperious in the short time Australia got to bat before the weather intervened.

The bowlers, too, Adam Zampa excepted, had solid outings carrying on from the Sri Lanka series. Meanwhile, Pakistan suddenly find themselves in disarray in their most favoured format of the last three years. In the first game...

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