India K(oh)linch series, beating Australia

India made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Manish Pandey and Mohammed Shami made way for Shreyas Iyer and Shardul Thakur.

Australia made three changes to the (Dani)eleven that last played the Indians – Aaron Finch, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood made way for Marcus Stoinis, Twenty20 International debutant Sams and Andrew Tye.

On winning the toss, Virat Kohli, India’s skipper, inserted the hosts.

The Powerplay of Australia’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 59, and lost a wicket.

D’Arcy Short, whose run-a-ball innings included a boundary, scored nine. Twenty-seven balls into the match, he was caught by Iyer. Thangarasu Natarajan broke the 47-run stand.

Australia scored 50 off 5.1 overs (31 balls). India had conceded three extras at that point.

Matthew Wade’s half-century – which included 10 boundaries and a six – came off 25 balls.

Forty balls into the match, India sought a bowling review. Steve Smith was the batsman. It was struck down by Australian umpire Paul Wilson.

The second-wicket pair put on 28. Wade, whose 32-ball innings included the aforementioned number of boundaries and the six, eventually scored 58. Twenty-one balls later, Kohli and Lokesh Rahul ran him out.

Australia scored 100 off 11 overs (66 balls). India had conceded five extras at that point.

Glenn Maxwell, whose 13-ball innings included a couple of sixes, scored 22. Twenty-eight balls after Wade’s dismissal, he was caught by Washington Sundar. Thakur broke the 45-run stand.

Australia scored 150 off 15.5 overs (95 balls). India had conceded nine extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Smith, whose 38-ball innings included three boundaries and a couple of sixes, eventually scored 46. Thirty-one balls later, he was caught by Hardik Pandya, the player of the match. Chahal broke the 48-run stand.

A hundred and eleven balls into the match, Australia sought a bowling review. Moises Henriques – who scored 26 off 18 balls, including a six – was the batsman. It was struck down by Wilson. Four balls after Smith’s dismissal, he was caught by Rahul. Natarajan broke the three-run stand.

Stoinis, whose seven-ball innings included a six, scored 16. He was unbeaten, as was Sams, who scored eight. His three-ball innings included a boundary.

Australia scored 194 for the loss of five wickets off 20 overs. Deepak bowled Cha(h)ar overs, conceding 48. He was wicketless, as was Sundar, who bowled four overs, conceding 35.

Yuzvendra Chahal and Thakur bowled four overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former conceded 50, the latter conceded 38. Natarajan bowled four overs, conceding 19. He picked up two scalps.

The Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 60, and lost a wicket.

Thirteen balls into the chase, Australia sought a bowling review. Shikhar Dhawan, who turned 35 on the eve of the match, was the batsman. It was struck down by Wilson.

India’s openers scored 50 off 4.5 overs (30 balls). Australia had conceded a couple of extras at that point. While Dhawan’s contribution to the partnership was 30, Rahul’s contribution to it was 18.

Rahul, whose 22-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, eventually scored 30. Thirty-three balls into the chase, he was caught by Mitchell Swepson. Tye broke the 56-run partnership.

Dhawan’s half-century – which included four boundaries and a couple of sixes – came off 34 balls. He eventually scored 52 off 36 balls. Thirty-six balls after Rahul’s dismissal, he was caught by Swepson. Adam Zampa broke the 39-run stand.

India scored 100 off 11.5 overs (72 balls). Australia had conceded three extras at that point.

Samson, whose 10-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 15. Fourteen balls later, he was caught by Smith. Swepson broke the 25-run stand.

Kohli, whose 24-ball innings including a couple of boundaries and as many sixes, eventually conceded 40. Fifteen balls later, he was caught by Wade. Sams broke the 29-run stand.

India scored 150 off 16.2 overs (99 balls). Australia had conceded four extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

A hundred and six balls into the chase, Australia sought a bowling review. Pandya was the batsman. It was struck down by Australian umpire Sam Nogajski.

Pandya, whose 22-ball innings included three boundaries and a couple of sixes, scored 42. He was unbeaten, as was Iyer, who scored a dozen. His five-ball innings included a boundary and a six.

India, who scored 195 for the loss of four wickets off 19.4 overs, won by half-a-dozen wickets with a couple of balls to spare.

Sean Abbott bowled two wicketless overs, conceding 17. Maxwell and Henriques bowled a wicketless over apiece. While the former conceded 19, the latter conceded nine. Sams bowled 3.4 overs, conceding 41. He picked up a wicket, as did Tye, Zampa and Swepson, who bowled four overs apiece. They conceded 47, 36, and 25, respectively.

India led the three-match series 2-0. In fact, they won the series with a match to spare.