Monday, June 10, 2019

India are Vi(ra)(c)torious over Australia

While India fielded an unchanged playing eleven, Australia made four changes to the team that last played the Indians – Peter Handscomb, Ashton Turner, Jhye Richardson and Nathan Lyon made way for David Warner, Steven Smith, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Mitchell Starc.

Virat Kohli, India’s skipper, chose to bat on winning the toss. Rohit, whose 70-ball innings included three boundaries and a six, scored 57. A hundred and thirty-five balls into the (Shar)match, he was caught by Alex Carey. Coulter-Nile broke the 127-run stand.

Shikhar Dhawan, the player of the match, scored 117. His 109-ball innings included 16 boundaries. Eighty-seven balls later, he was caught by Lyon, the substitute. Starc broke the 93-run stand.

Hardik Pandya, whose 27-ball innings included four boundaries and three sixes, scored 48. Fifty-three balls later, he was caught by Aaron Finch, the Australian skipper. Pat Cummins broke the 91-run stand.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose 14-ball innings included three boundaries and a six, scored 27. Twenty balls later, he was caught by Marcus Stoinis, who broke the 37-ball innings. Kohli, whose 77-ball innings included four boundaries and a couple of sixes, scored 82. Four balls later, he was caught by Cummins. Stoinis broke the 10-run stand.

Lokesh Rahul, whose three-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 11. He was unbeaten, as was Kedar Jadhav, who didn’t face a ball. Australia conceded 10 extras. India scored 352 for the loss of five wickets off 50 overs. 

Adam Zampa, who bowled half-a-dozen overs, conceded 50. He was wicketless, as was Glenn Maxwell, who bowled seven overs, conceding 45. Starc, Coulter-Nile (whose spell included a maiden) and Cummins bowled 10 overs, picking up a wicket each. They conceded 74, 63 and 55, respectively. Stoinis, who bowled seven overs, conceded 62. He picked up a couple of scalps.

The Aussie openers put on 61. Finch, whose 35-ball innings included three boundaries and a six, scored 35. Seventy-nine balls into the chase, Jadhav and Pandya ran him out. Warner, whose 84-ball innings included five boundaries, scored 56. Sixty-nine balls later, he was caught by Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Yuzvendra Singh Chahal broke the 72-run stand.

Usman Khawaja, whose 39-ball innings included four boundaries and a six, scored 42. A dozen overs later, Jasprit Bumrah broke the 69-run stand. Smith, whose 70-ball innings included five boundaries and a six, scored 69. Three overs later, he was trapped leg before wicket by Kumar, who broke the 36-run stand.

Stoinis, who faced a couple of balls, failed to get off the mark. A couple of dot balls later, he was dismissed by Kumar. Maxwell, whose 14-ball innings included five boundaries, scored 28. Four balls later, he was caught by Ravindra Jadeja, the substitute. The leggie broke the sixth-wicket stand, which was worth (Cha)half-a-dozen.

Carey, whose 35-ball innings included five boundaries and a six, scored 55. He was unbeaten. Coulter-Nile, who faced nine balls, scored four. Twenty-five balls later, he was caught by Kohli. Bumrah broke the 39-run stand. 

Cummins, whose seven-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. Thirteen balls later, he was caught by Dhoni. Bumrah broke the 17-run stand. The ninth-wicket pair put on 13. Starc faced three balls, scoring as many. Seven balls later, Vijay Shankar, the substitute, and Kumar ran him out.

Zampa, who faced three balls, scored just a run. He was caught by Jadeja. Five balls later, Kumar broke the three-run stand. India conceded 14 extras. Australia, who were dismissed for 316 off 50 overs, lost by 36 runs. Jadhav, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded 14.

Kuldeep Yadav, who bowled nine wicketless overs, conceded 55. Pandya, who bowled 10 wicketless overs, conceded 68. Chahal, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 62. He picked up a couple of wickets. Bumrah (whose spell included a maiden) and Kumar bowled 10 overs each, picking up three scalps each. While the former conceded 61, the latter conceded 50.  





  

  







  

  


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