Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

AJ Finch
AJ Finch
42(30) 4x4 - 1x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 7 runs
  • 1x4 - 0x6
2 1 4 8 5 7 3 12
V Kohli
V Kohli
22(14) 3x4 - 0x6
Control %92%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 7 runs
  • 1x4 - 0x6
0 1 8 3 4 5 0 1

Best performances - Bowlers

Kuldeep Yadav
Kuldeep Yadav
O4
M0
R16
W2
Eco4.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
JJ Bumrah
JJ Bumrah
O3
M0
R17
W2
Eco5.66
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

India , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

India led the 3-match series 1-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.25, Interval 20.25-20.45, Second Session 20.45-22.10

Match days

07 October 2017 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Commentator: Alagappan Muthu

11.00 pm That's all we have from the game. Thanks for joining us. Good night.

Kuldeep Yadav is Man of the Match for his 2 for 16. "getting my first Man of the Man in T20s. First couple of balls, I saw what he was doing, later on I set him up for the sweep shot. So I knew he wasn't going to hit me over mid-off, so I planned that overpitched ball to bowl him. Always think about wickets, that's all that matters for me and the team. Getting more confidence day by day, game by game."

"Especially after winning the toss and bowling first, that effort was required. We don't really understand the Duckword Lewis method. After getting them down to 118, we thought it would only be 40 or something. 48 was tricky," Virat Kohli says. "It's been a combined effort of the players, but also the management group who have given great ideas. Picking specialist players for formats, picking mystery bowlers, giving them confidence. They can give runs in one game, but they will always hit back. Bhuvi and Bumrah have been brilliant in limited-overs lately. You need to be able to execute yorkers and slower balls and you need skill. But you need to have a good head as well, make batsmen hit the wrong areas. Unfortunate for Dhawan to miss out on so many games, but he's back and even this innings of 15 will give him confidence."

10.55 pm "At the end of the day, it's a poor result for us. We have to be better next game,"David Warner says. "We didn't deserve to have that chance. Almost being bowled out for 120. But to get as close as we did, the bowlers did an okay job. Don't have an answer for you. We had a good partnership up top with Finchy and myself, but then there was a collapse again in the middle order. We have to go back to the drawing board and figure that out."

Vinit Singh: "50th T20I win for India. Third international team to do so."

10.40 pm Rain shortened games usually end up with the chasing side. Kohli, after winning the toss, specifically said he wanted to bowl because of the weather around. Australia could have made it harder by batting smarter. This wasn't a belting pitch. It was slow, keeping low, and turning too. But regardless of that, they kept playing shots when they could have readjusted to hit a score of 140 or 150. That translated to a target of 48 in six overs and it was pretty comfortably done.

Much of this win was the result of Kuldeep Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah's bowling - 2 for 16 and 2 for 17 respectively. Kuldeep was especially impressive, countering Aaron Finch's premeditated plans of sweeping him by bowling the perfect ball - quicker, fuller and tighter on the stumps to bowl him - setting the stage for Bumrah to take two wickets in one over in the death

"Tougu time for myself and my family but thankfully the doctors saw the disease on time," says Shikhar Dhawan when talking about his wife who fell sick recently. "Coming back after a break, playing an international game, it was good."

"That's it for all the cricket for the day from Ranchi, but here's Sharda Ugra transporting you to Kochi, describing the action from a pulsating Under-17 World Cup match between Brazil and Spain. You can watch all the matches of the tournament live on ESPN.in

Charles John: "I suspect the Aussies, much like the TV commentators, were completely unaware of the new rule allowing 2 overs per bowlers in reduced games ... oops"

5.3
4
Christian to Kohli, FOUR, goes over extra cover to seal the win! he plays the field so well - four men on the leg side boundary - he predicts the line would be on leg stump, so he makes room and since it is full as well he just gets under it and lifts it over the four men saving singles on the off side

Four men on the leg side boundary and one at deep point

5.2
2
Christian to Kohli, 2 runs, excellent work by Coulter-Nile at deep backward square leg, racing to his right and stopping a certain boundary. Kohli's flick, powered by those incredible wrists, still fetches two

Warner and Christian have a chat now. Loud conversations regarding field placements. Pandya is padded up. Fine leg is back, third man is up. Long-on is back. Mid-off is up

5.1
1
Christian to Dhawan, 1 run, slower ball outside off, Dhawan cuts to deep point

Christian to bowl the last over.

END OF OVER:
5 | 6 Runs | IND: 42/1 (6 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.40, RRR: 6.00)

  • Virat Kohli16 (12b)
  • Shikhar Dhawan14 (11b)
  • Adam Zampa1-0-6-0
  • Nathan Coulter-Nile2-0-20-1
4.6
0
Zampa to Kohli, no run, drives to extra cover. Now its six off six for India to win. Good come back after conceding a boundary first ball
4.5
1
Zampa to Dhawan, 1 run, steps out, but Zampa shortens his length. The ball then kicks up off the pitch, making Dhawan work overtime as he flicks. The ball wanders dangerously close to Warner's reach at mid-on as he runs and dives to his right.
4.4
0
Zampa to Dhawan, no run, gets down the track and drives to short cover