The Aussies leave India D(hon)isheartened

India made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Ashok Dinda and Lakshmipathy Balaji made way for Ravichandran Ashwin and Zaheer Khan.

Australia made seven changes to the (Dani)eleven that last played the Indians – Aaron Finch, the Marsh brothers, David Hussey, Brett Lee, Clint McKay and Xavier Doherty made way for Shane Watson (the player of the match), Glenn Maxwell, Michael Hussey, Cameron White, Christian, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc.

On winning the toss, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper, chose to bat.

The Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 50, and lost a wicket.

India’s openers put on 21. Gautam Gambhir, whose 12-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 17. Three overs into the match, Cummins ran him out.

India scored 50 off 5.5 overs (35 balls). Australia had conceded a couple of extras at that point.

Virat Kohli, whose 13-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 15. Twenty-six balls after Gambhir’s dismissal, he was caught by Christian. Cummins broke the 35-run stand.

Yuvraj Singh, whose 10-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. Seventeen balls later, he was caught by Glenn Maxwell. Watson broke the 14-run stand.

Irfan Pathan, whose 30-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, scored 31. Five balls later, he was caught by White. Watson broke the four-run stand.

The fifth-wicket pair didn’t get off the (Shar)mark. Rohit, who faced a couple of balls, scored a run. The next ball, he was dismissed by Starc.

India scored 100 off 14.3 overs (87 balls). Australia had conceded eight extras at that point.

Dhoni, whose 21-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 15. Twenty-nine balls after Pathan’s dismissal, he was caught by George Bailey, Australia’s skipper. Cummins broke the 30-run stand.

Suresh Raina, whose 19-ball innings included four boundaries, scored 26. Twenty-one balls later, he was caught by Maxwell. Watson broke the 33-run stand.

Ravichandran Ashwin, whose 12-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 16. He was unbeaten, as was Harbhajan Singh, who faced a ball, scoring a run.

Australia eventually conceded 10 extras. India scored 140 for the loss of seven wickets off 20 overs. Christian and Maxwell bowled a couple of wicketless overs apiece. While the former conceded 19, the latter conceded 11. Brad Hogg, who bowled four wicketless overs, conceded 29.

Starc, who bowled four overs, conceded 27. He picked up a wicket. Cummins, who bowled four overs, conceded 16. He picked up a couple of wickets. Watson, who bowled four overs, conceded 34. He picked up three scalps.

The Powerplay of Australia’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 47, without the loss of a wicket.

Three balls into the match, the match was interrupted due to rain. Australia had scored five without the loss of a wicket at that point. While Watson had scored a run, David Warner was batting on four.

Australia’s openers scored 50 off 6.4 overs (40 balls). India had conceded a couple of extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded. While Watson’s contribution to the partnership was 20, Warner’s contribution to it was 31.

Watson’s half-century – which included a boundary and half-a-dozen sixes – came off 28 balls.

Australia’s openers scored 100 off 10 overs (60 balls). India had conceded a couple of extras at that point. While Watson’s contribution to the partnership was 53, Warner’s contribution to it was 45.

Warner’s half-century – which included half-a-dozen boundaries and a couple of sixes – came off 37 balls.

Watson, whose 42-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and seven sixes, eventually scored 72. Eighty-one balls later, he was caught by the substitute, Manoj Tiwary. Yuvraj Singh broke the 133-run partnership.

Warner, whose 41-ball innings included seven boundaries and three sixes, eventually scored 63. He was unbeaten, as was Maxwell, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scoring four.

Australia, who scored 141 for the loss of a wicket off 14.5 overs, won by nine wickets with 31 balls to spare. Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Sharma and Kohli bowled a wicketless over apiece. They conceded 19, 14, 12 and 10, respectively.

Harbhajan bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceding 20. Khan bowled three wicketless overs, conceding 18. Ashwin bowled 3.5 wicketless overs, conceding 32. Yuvraj bowled a couple of overs, conceding 16. He picked up the only wicket to fall.