India vs Australia 1st T20 highlights: AUSTRILA BEAT INDIA IN LAST BALL .
| India vs Australia 1st T20 highlights: AUSTRILA BEAT INDIA IN LAST BALL .(IMAGE CREDIT: ICC/BCCI) |
Australia defeated India by three wickets in the 1st T20 played in Visakhapatnam on Sunday. Needing two off the final ball, but Australia had Pat Cummins to thank for getting them across the line. Jasprit Bumrah’s heroics in the penultimate over went in vain as he gave away just two runs and picked two wickets to bring India back in the match. Glenn Maxwell top-scored for Australia with 56 runs off 43 balls. His innings included six fours and two sixes.
INDIA INNINGS
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Earlier, Opener KL Rahul’s scored a stylish half-century on comeback but an inexplicable batting collapse found India restricted to a paltry 126 for 7 by Australia in the opening T20 international. Back in the senior team after two-month wilderness due to his trash talk on a TV show, but Rahul showed why he is rated highly during his 36-ball-50 but some indiscreet shot selection from his teammates meant that only 46 runs were scored in the back 10.
From a comfortable 80 for two in 9.5 overs, India lost four wickets for 20 runs by the 15th over to be reduced to 100 for six.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, played one of his signature dogged innings as he stemmed the rot with an unbeaten 29 off 37 balls but the total was definitely sub-par in the end.
The best partnership was 55 for the second wicket between Rahul and skipper Virat Kohli (24, 17 balls). but
Looking in his element, Kohli didn’t get the required elevation as he stepped out to leg-spinner Adam Zampa and only to find Nathan Coulter-Nile at long-on.
RISHABH PANT FAIL TO IMPRESS
In the very next over, Rishabh Pant misjudged a single and Jason Behrendorff dived to his left and released the ball quickly for keeper and Peter Handscomb to effect a run-out.
Rahul however could not convert his start and got out immediately after reaching his fifty in an over where Coulter-Nile (3/26) also breached Dinesh Karthik’s defence with an off-cutter.
At the start of the innings, Behrendorff dismissed Rohit (5) as early as in the third over with the Indian vice-captain trying the lap shot but only to give Zampa a simple catch at fine leg.
But things started to go in India’s favour from the next over with Rahul and then Kohli scoring a flurry of boundaries.
