Spencer Johnson produced the greatest-ever figures by an Australian quick in a men’s Twenty20 international to bowl his side to a 13-run win over Pakistan.

With Australia defending 9-147 at the SCG on Saturday night, Johnson bagged five for 26 with the ball to have Pakistan all out for 134 and help the hosts to an unassailable 2-0 series lead.

Johnson’s haul made him only the sixth bowler in history to take five wickets in a match for Australia in T20s, and usurped James Faulkner’s 5-27 from 2016 as the best by a quick.

Making the feat even more remarkable was that Johnson’s first over went wicketless and for 12 runs, as he sprayed a ball to first slip and gave away five wides to the fine-leg boundary. But from there, the left-armer delivered with his first ever white-ball five-wicket haul at domestic or international level.

Johnson removed Muhammad Rizwan (16 runs) and Salman Agha (0) with successive balls to leave Pakistan reeling at 4-44, before Usman Khan (52) and Irfan Khan (37) launched a comeback. The pair put on 58 for the fifth wicket in quick time, with Usman hitting Adam Zampa (2-19) inside out over cover for six and four other boundaries.

Then it was up to Johnson to again deliver, getting Usman caught on the pull shot for 52 before also getting Abbas Afridi at cover in the same over. Zampa then dismissed Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah, both for ducks, as the tourists teetered on the brink.

Pakistan were able to get the equation down to 24 from the final two overs and 16 needed off the last six balls. But Haris Rauf (2) was run out attempting to come back for a second, with the tourists requiring 15 from four.

Earlier, Australia squandered a red-hot start from Matt Short (32 from 17) and Jake Fraser-McGurk (20 from nine). The pair blasted 47 runs off the first 15 deliveries but the hosts only added another 100 runs from the next 105 balls of the innings.

Australia hit as many boundaries in that first 2.3 overs as they did the rest of the innings, with the pair both pulling the ball over the legside rope. The game changed when McGurk was caught trying to jump and uppercut Rauf, and Josh Inglis was caught behind for a duck two balls later.

From there wickets fell regularly as Pakistan took the pace off the ball, and Rauf finished with figures of 4-22 to take his tally of wickets for the tour to 15. Aaron Hardie hit 28 runs off 23 balls before being dislodged by Abbas Afridi.

While his heroics were enough to deliver Pakistan to a 2-1 ODI series win, they will depart Australia after Monday’s third T20 in Hobart without series success in the shortest format.