diff --git a/src/SparseArrays.jl b/src/SparseArrays.jl
index 2688a449..aec895ae 100644
--- a/src/SparseArrays.jl
+++ b/src/SparseArrays.jl
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export AbstractSparseArray, AbstractSparseMatrix, AbstractSparseVector,
     SparseMatrixCSC, SparseVector, blockdiag, droptol!, dropzeros!, dropzeros,
     issparse, nonzeros, nzrange, rowvals, sparse, sparsevec, spdiagm,
     sprand, sprandn, spzeros, nnz, permute, findnz,  fkeep!, ftranspose!,
-    sparse_hcat, sparse_vcat, sparse_hvcat
+    sparse_hcat, sparse_vcat, sparse_hvcat, colvals
 
 const LinAlgLeftQs = Union{HessenbergQ,QRCompactWYQ,QRPackedQ}
 
diff --git a/src/sparsematrix.jl b/src/sparsematrix.jl
index 80074402..ae3f4d08 100644
--- a/src/sparsematrix.jl
+++ b/src/sparsematrix.jl
@@ -2956,6 +2956,8 @@ end
     ((r1 > r2) || (rowvals(A)[r1] != i0)) ? zero(T) : nonzeros(A)[r1]
 end
 
+@RCI @propagate_inbounds getindex(A::AbstractSparseMatrixCSR, I::Tuple{Integer,Integer}) = getindex(A, I[1], I[2])
+
 @RCI @propagate_inbounds function getindex(A::AbstractSparseMatrixCSR{T}, i0::Integer, i1::Integer) where T
     @boundscheck checkbounds(A, i0, i1)
     c1 = Int(@inbounds getrowptr(A)[i0])