India (Shar)made three changes to their playing eleven – Sanju Samson, Harshit Rana, and Kuldeep Yadav made way for Jitesh, Washington Sundar, and Arshdeep Singh (the player of the match).
Australia made one change to their playing eleven –
Josh Hazlewood made way for Sean Abbott.
Suryakumar Yadav, India’s skipper, elected to field.
The first Powerplay of Australia’s innings – which was
the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored
43, and lost two wickets.
Travis Head, whose four-ball innings included a
boundary, scored half-a-dozen. Four balls into the match, he was caught by
Suryakumar. Arshdeep broke the six-run stand.
Josh Inglis had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he
scored just a run. (Pat)Eleven balls later, he was caught by Axar. Arshdeep
broke the eight-run stand.
Australia scored 50 off 6.3 overs (39 balls). India
had conceded an extra at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of
extras they eventually conceded.
The third-wicket pair put on 50 off 31 balls. While
the contribution of Mitchell Marsh, Australia’s skipper, to the partnership was
five, Tim David’s contribution to it was 48. Extras did not contribute to the
partnership.
David’s half-century – which included seven boundaries
and three sixes – came off 23 balls.
Marsh, whose 14-ball innings included a boundary,
eventually scored 11. Thirty-five balls after Inglis’ dismissal, he was caught
by Tilak Varma. Chakravarthy broke the 59-(Va)run partnership.
The fourth-wicket pair did not get off the mark.
Mitchell Owen, who faced a ball, did not open his account. The next ball, he
was bowled by Chakravarthy.
Australia scored 100 off 12 overs (72 balls).
David, whose 38-ball innings included eight boundaries
and five sixes, eventually scored 74. Twenty-seven balls after Owen’s
dismissal, he was caught by Varma. Shivam Dube broke the 45-run stand.
Australia scored 150 off 16.4 overs (100 balls).
Marcus Stoinis’ half-century – which included
half-a-dozen boundaries and a couple of sixes – came off 32 balls.
The sixth-wicket pair put on 50 off 30 balls. While
Stoinis’ contribution to the partnership was 31, Matthew Short’s contribution
to it was 21. Extras did not contribute to the partnership.
Stoinis eventually scored 64 off 39 balls. Thirty-nine
balls after David’s dismissal, he was caught by the substitute, Rinku Singh.
Arshdeep broke the 64-run partnership.
Short, whose 15-ball innings included a couple of
boundaries and a six, eventually scored 26. He was unbeaten, as was Xavier
Bartlett, who faced a couple of balls, scoring three.
Australia scored 186 for the loss of half-a-dozen
wickets off 20 overs.
Abhishek, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded 13.
Axar and Jasprit Bumrah bowled four wicketless overs
apiece. While the former conceded 35, the latter conceded 26.
Dube, who bowled three overs, conceded 23. He picked
up a wicket.
Chakravarthy, who bowled four overs, conceded 33. He
picked up a couple of wickets.
Arshdeep, who bowled four overs, conceded 35. He
picked up three scalps.
The first Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the
mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 64,
and lost a couple of wickets.
Abhishek, whose 16-ball innings included a couple of
boundaries and as many sixes, scored 25. Twenty-two balls into the chase, he
was caught by Inglis. Nathan Ellis broke the 33-run stand.
India scored 50 off 4.4 overs (29 balls). Australia
had conceded a couple of extras at that point.
Thirty-four balls (5.3 overs) into the chase, India
sought a batting review. They challenged the decision for a wicket. Shubman
Gill, the batter, faced 12 balls, scoring 15, which included a boundary. It
was struck down by Australian umpire Sam Nogajski. He was trapped leg before
wicket by Ellis, who broke the 28-run stand.
Suryakumar, whose 11-ball innings included a boundary
and a couple of sixes, scored 24. A dozen balls later, he was caught by Ellis.
Stoinis broke the 15-run stand.
India scored 100 off 9.2 overs (58 balls). Australia
had conceded half-a-dozen extras at that point.
Axar, whose 12-ball innings included a boundary,
scored 17. Twenty-two balls after Suryakumar’s dismissal, he was caught by
Bartlett. Ellis broke the 35-run stand.
Varma, whose 26-ball innings included a boundary and a
six, scored 29. Nineteen balls later, he was caught by Inglis. Bartlett broke
the 34-run stand.
India scored 150 off 14.4 overs (90 balls). The number
of extras they had conceded at that point gave Australia no reason to be in
seventh heaven. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually
conceded.
Sundar, whose 23-ball innings included three
boundaries and four sixes, scored 49. He was unbeaten, as was Jitesh, who
scored 22 off 13 balls, which included three boundaries.
India, who scored 188 for the loss of five wickets off
18.3 overs, won by five wickets with nine balls to spare.
Short bowled a wicketless over, conceding 13. He
picked up a wicket.
Abbott bowled 3.3 wicketless overs, conceding 56.
Matthew Kuhnemann bowled four wicketless overs, conceding
31.
Stoinis bowled a couple of overs, conceding 22. He
picked up a wicket, as did Bartlett, who bowled four overs, conceding 30.
Ellis bowled four overs, conceding 36. He picked up
three scalps.
The five-match series was level 1-1.
