Sydney Thunder have won the bat flip and will bat first.
Strikers XI: 1 Jake Weatherald, 2 Matthew Short, 3 Chris Lynn, 4 Adam Hose, 5 Colin de Grandhomme, 6 Thomas Kelly, 7 Harry Nielsen (wk), 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Wes Agar, 10 Henry Thornton, 11 Peter Siddle (capt.).
Thunder XI: 1 Alex Hales, 2 Matthew Gilkes (wk), 3 Rilee Rossouw, 4 Ollie Davies, 5 Alex Ross, 6 Daniel Sams, 7 Nathan McAndrew, 8 Chris Green (capt.), 9 Gurinder Sandhu, 10 Brendan Doggett, 11 Fazalhaq Farooqi.