India made a couple of changes to their playing (Pat)eleven – Lokesh Rahul and Axar made way for Shikhar Dhawan and Hardik Pandya.
Australia made half-a-dozen changes to the (Dani)eleven
that last played the Indians – Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Shane Watson, James
Faulkner, Peter Nevill and Josh Hazlewood made way for Travis Head, Moises
Henriques, Christian, Tim Paine, Andrew Tye and Twenty20 International debutant
Jason Behrendorff.
On winning the toss, Virat Kohli, India’s skipper,
inserted the visitors.
The first Powerplay of Australia’s innings – which was
the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored
49, and lost a wicket.
David Warner, Australia’s skipper, faced five balls,
scoring eight. His runs came by way of boundaries. Five balls into the match,
Bhuvneshwar Kumar broke the eight-run stand.
Australia scored 50 off 6.1 overs (37 balls). India
had conceded an extra at that point.
Glenn Maxwell, whose 16-ball innings included a couple
of boundaries, scored 17. Thirty-four balls after Warner’s dismissal, he was
caught by Jasprit Bumrah. Yuzvendra Chahal broke the 47-run stand.
Aaron Finch, whose 30-ball innings included four
boundaries and a six, scored 42. Twenty balls later, Kuldeep Yadav, the player
of the match, broke the 21-run stand.
Henriques, whose nine-ball innings included a
boundary, scored eight. Fifteen balls later, Yadav broke the 11-run stand.
Head, who faced 16 balls, scored nine. Pandya had a
reason to be in seventh heaven – he broke the two-run stand.
Australia scored 100 off 16.2 overs (98 balls). India
had conceded three extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of
extras they eventually conceded.
Paine, whose 16-ball innings included a boundary and a
six, scored 17. Twenty-two balls after Head’s dismissal, Bumrah broke the run-a-ball
stand.
Nathan Coulter-Nile, who faced a couple of balls,
scored a run. Three balls later, Bumrah broke the two-run stand.
The eighth-wicket pair put on a run. Christian, who
faced 13 balls, scored nine. Three balls later, Kohli ran him out.
A hundred and twelve balls into the match, rain
brought Australia’s innings to an end. They eventually scored 118 for the loss
of eight wickets. Tye, who faced a couple of balls, hadn’t opened his account.
He was unbeaten, as was Adam Zampa, who scored four off three balls. His runs
came by way of a boundary.
Kumar, who bowled 3.4 overs, conceded 28. He picked up
a wicket, as did Pandya and Chahal, who bowled four overs apiece. While the
former conceded 33, the latter conceded 23.
Bumrah, who bowled three overs, conceded 17. He picked
up a couple of scalps, as did Yadav, who bowled four overs, conceded 16.
Rain delayed the beginning of the chase, resulting in India’s
target being revised to 48 off half-a-dozen overs.
The first Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the
mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the second over. They scored 16,
and lost a wicket.
Although Rohit Sharma’s innings included a boundary
and a six, he had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored just 11. Eight
balls into the chase, Coulter-Nile broke the 11-run stand.
Dhawan, whose 12-ball innings included three boundaries,
scored 15. He was unbeaten, as was Kohli, who scored 22. His 14-ball innings
included three boundaries.
Australia conceded just an extra. India, who scored 49
for the loss of a wicket off 5.3 overs, won by nine wickets with three balls to
spare under the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Christian, who bowled three balls, had no reason to be
in seventh heaven – he was wicketless, as were Tye, Zampa and Behrendorff, who
bowled an over apiece. They conceded 10, half-a-dozen, and five, respectively.
Coulter-Nile, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded 20. He picked up the only
wicket to fall.
India led the three-match series 1-0.
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