India’s innings: Hazlewood’s batting collapses
Australia’s bowlers showed the dots for team India who lost the toss and batted first. The Indian batting line-up collapsed quickly. Star opener Shubman Gill (5) and all the middle order batsmen reached the pavilion with low scores. Young player Abhishek Sharma (68 runs, 37 balls) had a solitary fight in India’s innings. Harshit Rana (35 runs, 33 balls) helped him for a while, but Team India was bowled out for just 125 runs in 18.4 overs.
Josh Hazlewood, who showed an excellent performance among the Australian bowlers, took 3 crucial wickets for just 13 runs in 4 overs. Along with him Xavier Bartlett (2/39) and Nathan Ellis (2/21) also excelled.
Australia’s breakthrough: Marsh, who finished the fastest, head
Chasing a small target of 126 runs, Australia played aggressively and secured victory in just 13.2 overs. Captain Mitchell Marsh (46 runs, 26 balls – 4 sixes) and opener Travis Head (28 runs, 15 balls) played a brilliant innings, making the breakthrough easy. Josh Inglis (20) also contributed.
Indian bowlers Jasprit Bumrah (2/26), Varun Chakraborty (2/23), and Kuldeep Yadav (2/45) picked up a couple of wickets, but the Aussie batsmen were unable to recover due to rapid runs. Australia scored 126 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 13.2 overs to win by 4 wickets.
Player of the match
Josh Hazlewood (3/13) won the ‘Player of the Match’ award after his brilliant bowling performance.
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