Australia arrived in Pakistan for its first cricket tour in 24 years amid tight security. Australian skipper Pat Cummins said that the tight security surrounding their team was comforting and would not be a distraction.
In the first match of the series against Sri Lanka in Lucknow Rohit Sharma once again became T20I cricket's leading run-getter by going ahead of Martin Guptill's 3299 runs. Following these two is Virat Kohli with 3296 runs.