Young to replace injured Clarkson in New Zealand's squad for third T20I

Josh Clarkson will no longer join the New Zealand T20I squad ahead of the third T20I against Pakistan after he sustained a shoulder injury. Will Young will instead take his place for the match set to be staged in Dunedin on Wednesday.

Clarkson was to substitute Kane Williamson for the third game as the New Zealand skipper keeps on checking his knee injury. Be that as it may, Clarkson harmed his shoulder while playing for Focal Locale in the Crush. Youthful will join the crew after the second T20I on Sunday.

Youthful has played 97 T20 games by and large in which he has scored 2290 runs averaging 26.62 with 14 fifties and two centuries. In 14 T20Is, he has 260 runs at 20.00 with two fifties yet at a much lower strike pace of 102.36 contrasted with his generally speaking T20 strike pace of 133.83. Youthful comes into the crew on the rear of 50 years and 100 for Focal Areas in the Crush in Napier. He crushed a 33-ball 50 against Wellington prior to burning his direction to an unbeaten 63-ball 101 against Otago in the following match.

Williamson will in the mean time be back for the last two T20Is, which will be played in Christchurch on January 19 and 21. The groups will leave for Dunedin on Monday.

New Zealand had serious areas of strength for a to their five-game T20I series against Pakistan. Solid fifties from Williamson and Daryl Mitchell assisted the hosts with piling up 226 for 8. In answer, Babar Azam struck a fifty however Tim Southee's parsimonious 4 for 25 assisted New Zealand with bowling out Pakistan for 180 and take the initial game by 46 runs.

Mitchell Santner, who should lead the New Zealand side for the third T20I in Williamson's nonappearance missed the initial game in Auckland because of Coronavirus. It will be fascinating to see who drives the side on the off chance that Santner doesn't recuperate in time for the third game. He was in separation at the group's Auckland lodging subsequent to testing positive on Friday.