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India haven’t played many bilateral series in Australia, but that doesn’t dwarf Friday’s T20I win at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which gave India their first ever series win on Australian soil across all formats.
India once again rode on their top-order heroics, punctuated by half-centuries by Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and a near-half-century by Shikhar Dhawan, to put 184 for 3 on the board. But it was almost undone by Australia’s blazing 94-run start in 9.4 overs until the Indian spinners made their presence felt.
While it was an off day for Ashish Nehra and Jasprit Bumrah initially, R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja once again applied the choke on Australian batsmen with spells of 1 for 27 and 2 for 32, respectively. Bumrah then came back to take two wickets in his final over to finish with figures of 2 for 37. Hardik Pandya and Yuvraj Singh took one wicket apiece.
Skipper Aaron Finch almost took the match away from India before being run out for 78 off 48 balls. Shaun Marsh was the next best on the Australian scoreboard with 23.
Australia lost 8 wickets for 63 runs to collapse from 94 for 0 to 157 for 8.
Also entering the record books was MS Dhoni who surpassed Kumar Sangakkara’s record of 139 stumpings in international cricket.
Dhoni, who has already surpassed Sourav Ganguly as India’s most successful captain, is now the only Indian skipper to have won a bilateral series in Australia, which is also also the only instance of India achieving the feat Down Under in any format of the game Down.
was Dhoni’s second series win in Australia, taking into account the 2008 CB series win where they beat the hosts in a best-of-three final.
Overall, this is India’s only third ever series win on Australian soil across all formats, after the World Championship of Cricket, which came under Sunil Gavaskar’s captaincy in 1985, and the CB Series in 2008.
The win now gives India a chance to whitewash Australia in the three-match series by winning the final T20I in Sydney. That will be another first for an Indian team touring Down Under.
Earlier, put in to bat, Indian openers Rohit and Dhawan got the visitors off to a flying start. The duo laid the platform for the team to post a challenging total on the board and later on Kohli provided the finishing touch.
India haven’t played many bilateral series in Australia, but that doesn’t dwarf Friday’s T20I win at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which gave India their first ever series win on Australian soil across all formats.
India once again rode on their top-order heroics, punctuated by half-centuries by Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and a near-half-century by Shikhar Dhawan, to put 184 for 3 on the board. But it was almost undone by Australia’s blazing 94-run start in 9.4 overs until the Indian spinners made their presence felt.
While it was an off day for Ashish Nehra and Jasprit Bumrah initially, R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja once again applied the choke on Australian batsmen with spells of 1 for 27 and 2 for 32, respectively. Bumrah then came back to take two wickets in his final over to finish with figures of 2 for 37. Hardik Pandya and Yuvraj Singh took one wicket apiece.
Skipper Aaron Finch almost took the match away from India before being run out for 78 off 48 balls. Shaun Marsh was the next best on the Australian scoreboard with 23.
Australia lost 8 wickets for 63 runs to collapse from 94 for 0 to 157 for 8.
Also entering the record books was MS Dhoni who surpassed Kumar Sangakkara’s record of 139 stumpings in international cricket.
Dhoni, who has already surpassed Sourav Ganguly as India’s most successful captain, is now the only Indian skipper to have won a bilateral series in Australia, which is also also the only instance of India achieving the feat Down Under in any format of the game Down.
was Dhoni’s second series win in Australia, taking into account the 2008 CB series win where they beat the hosts in a best-of-three final.
Overall, this is India’s only third ever series win on Australian soil across all formats, after the World Championship of Cricket, which came under Sunil Gavaskar’s captaincy in 1985, and the CB Series in 2008.
The win now gives India a chance to whitewash Australia in the three-match series by winning the final T20I in Sydney. That will be another first for an Indian team touring Down Under.
Earlier, put in to bat, Indian openers Rohit and Dhawan got the visitors off to a flying start. The duo laid the platform for the team to post a challenging total on the board and later on Kohli provided the finishing touch.
