T20 FINAL ESSENTIAL

■ PROBABLE TEAMS

ENGLAND

J Buttler (capt, wkt), A Hales, P Salt, B Stokes, H Brook, M Ali, L Livingstone, C Woakes, S Curran, C Jordan, A Rashid. PAKISTAN

M Rizwan (wkt), B Azam (capt), M Haris, S Masood, I Ahmed, M Nawaz, S Khan, M Wasim, N Shah, H Rauf, S Afridi.

■ THE PITCH: It’s another used one, like in Adelaide for the semi-final. That could make it spicy for the seamers.

■ THE WEATHER: There have been fears all week of a washout but the forecast now says the rain should clear by the start. Will the MCG outfield have taken too much rain by then?

WHAT HAPPENS IF IT RAINS?

IF A 10-overs-a-side match cannot be completed tomorrow, then Monday is the reserve day. But the weather forecast is not much better then, and if they still cannot finish a match, the trophy will be shared. It would be only the second shared ICC final, after the 2002 Champions Trophy when Sri Lanka and India suffered two rainouts.