"It was tough early and it was a pretty spicy wicket with some quick bowlers," Short said. "It was nice to bat second and get a bit of dew and skid off the wicket. The Cook-Salt combo also accounted for Nikhil Chaudhary after he and Marcus Stoinis had taken the Brave to an underwhelming 45 for 3 at the halfway stage. Not long after, Rachin Ravindra snared Tristan Stubbs and Moeen Ali in successive balls, the latter caught by Joe Root off a skier. But Short and Root kept things moving, knowing that one or two partnerships would be enough, and calmly took the score to 60 off 48 before Root departed, caught by McKinney off Chris Jordan.