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Australia’s opening batter Travis Head bagged a golden duck in the second T20I against Scotland. Notably, Head scored 80 off 25 balls against Scotland in the first T20I, played on Wednesday, September 4. Coming back to the second T20I, the home team, Scotland won the toss and elected to field first. In the second over of Australia's innings, Head was clean bowled by Scotland’s Brad Currie. Notably, the left-hander, Head was facing the first ball of his innings. He was dismissed by Currie on the fourth ball of the second over of the first innings.
Travis Head’s wicket led to Josh Inglis coming out to bat, and he scored a hundred in the second T20I match of the series against Scotland. The latter faced 49 balls and hit 103 runs including seven sixes and as many fours. While Inglis took on the bowling attack of the home team, Scotland, other batters such as Cameron Green (36), Marcus Stoinis (20*), and Tim David (17*) played important cameos to help the team reach 196/4 at the end of the innings. For the home team, Ben Currie took three wickets and Chris Sole took one wicket.
Watch the video of Ben Currie taking the wicket of Travis Head here:
Scotland suffer defeat in second T20I against Australia
The Kangaroos won the first T20I against Scotland by seven wickets. Batting first, the home team managed to score 154/9 at the end of the innings. In reply, the Aussies won the game by seven wickets as they chased down the target of 155 in just 9.4 overs, to take a 1-0 lead in the series. In the second T20I, Scotland were set a target of 197 runs, to keep their hopes alive in the series, but they were bundled out for 126 runs in 16.4 overs, losing the match by 70 runs.
With that, Australia have a 2-0 lead in the three-match T20I series against Scotland, with the third and final contest set to be played on September 7, at the Grange Cricket Club Ground in Edinburgh. The visitors will be looking to clean-sweep the Scotts 3-0 tomorrow before making their way to England to play a three-match T20I series against the old enemy, starting on September 11.
