Australia’s makeshift crew have suffered a tame 22-run defeat in their first T20 international outing against Pakistan in Lahore despite the best efforts of their evergreen spinner Adam Zampa. In a shadow side featuring three newcomers and without a host of top names as the World Cup looms, it was left to their all-time leading T20 wicket-taker Zampa to spearhead their push with his excellent 4-24 at the Gaddafi Stadium that did most to restrict Pakistan to 8-168 in the first of the three-match series. Australia’s Xavier Bartlett, second left, and Adam Zampa, third right, and Pakistani players walk off the field on the end of their T20 cricket match in Lahore, Pakistan. Credit: APBut Australia’s reply on Thursday proved a disappointment, and once stand-in captain Travis Head had departed for 23 after an early brisk cameo and Cameron Green had holed out on 36, they never looked like approaching their target, finishing on 8-146. The impressive Xavier Bartlett, who’d earlier been Zampa’s best support with the ball with his 2-26, did at least give it a belated go, smiting an unbeaten 34 off 25 balls, but the game had already gone as Pakistan’s spinners strangled the Aussie middle-order.