Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

KL Rahul
KL Rahul
51(40) 5x4 - 1x6
Control %80%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 15 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
9 0 2 5 7 2 4 22
RA Jadeja
RA Jadeja
44(23) 5x4 - 1x6
Control %82%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 11 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
0 2 2 4 12 11 2 10

Best performances - Bowlers

MC Henriques
MC Henriques
O4
M0
R22
W3
Eco5.5
RHB
OFFLEG
3W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
YS Chahal
YS Chahal
O4
M0
R25
W3
Eco6.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Australia , 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)

19.10 start, First Session 19.10-20.40, Interval 20.40-21.00, Second Session 21.00-22.30

Match days

04 December 2020 - night match (20-over match)

T20I debut

India replacement

YS Chahal for RA Jadeja (Australia innings, 0.1 ov)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Andrew McGlashan

END OF OVER:
20 | 15 Runs | AUS: 150/7 (12 runs required, RR: 7.50)

  • Mitchell Swepson12 (5b)
  • Sean Abbott12 (8b)
  • Mohammed Shami4-0-46-0
  • T Natarajan4-0-30-3

India win by 11 runs on the back of a very strong finish to their innings and an excellent performance in the field. Australia had a good start to the chase but struggled badly after Finch departed. Decent story out of the match with Chahal, who came in as a concussion sub for Jadeja, playing a key role with the ball (after Jadeja had done with the bat).

If you're in Indian subcontinent, here are some match highlights you can catch up with:
Full match highlights: Jadeja, Chahal, Natarajan help India take 1-0 lead
Australia innings highlights: Chahal, Natarajan three-fors seal India's win
WATCH: Jadeja rescues India with a 44* off 23
And for all the other match highlights, you just need to click here

Sugumar: "That catch by Samson changed everything tonight. Way to go young indians!!!!"

Mukunth: "So, Australia got a fair bit of an idea on the X-factor player rule before the BBL" Ha, almost

Deepak Sahu: "India's new allrounder Jadechal won us the game.. what an all-round performance"

Man of the Match is Chahal! "A great feeling, no pressure for me when we were batting then I got to know I was going to play. Ten to 15 minutes before I got to know I would play. I learnt from my ODI mistake where I bowled with some flight. In the first innings it was a bit hard to score against their spinners...and I bowled according to my plans."

Aaron Finch On his injury:"Bit of a hip or glute, we'll wait and see, it progressively got worse throughout the game."

On Chahal: "They were let using know their doctor had ruled Jadeja out with concussion and you aren't challenging a medical expert in that regard. We probably leaked a few too many runs at the end and then in the middle phase struggled to heat boundaries."

Virat Kohli "Jaddu got a knock on the side of a head and was a bit dizzy and still is. Concussion replacements are a strange thing, today it worked for us maybe another time he wouldn't have found a like-for-like. He came in and bowled really well. The pitch offered him enough. We showed character to fight back...I thought they had a great start and they were cruising to be honest. That's how T20 goes, we put enough pressure on them, but you need a bit of luck."

I'll wrap things up for tonight. Excellent performance from India. From Gnasher and Varun it's goodbye and see you in a couple of days

19.6
4
Mohammed Shami to Swepson, FOUR, and another boundary, gives himself room and drives over cover, but the game was already gone
19.5
6
Mohammed Shami to Swepson, SIX, all the way! That's a clean strike by Swepson as he clears long-off
19.4
1
Mohammed Shami to Abbott, 1 run, full at middle, driven to the covers
19.3
0
Mohammed Shami to Abbott, no run, beaten by a full delivery outside off as he gives himself room
19.2
1
Mohammed Shami to Swepson, 1 run, full outside off, gives himself some room but it's just a toe end
19.1
3
Mohammed Shami to Abbott, 3 runs, gets across to off stump and scoops this miles into the air back over the keeper

Shami for the last over

India in Australia 2020-21 News

Australia 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st56AJ FinchDJM Short
2nd16SPD SmithDJM Short
3rd3DJM ShortGJ Maxwell
4th38MC HenriquesDJM Short
5th9MC HenriquesMS Wade
6th4MC HenriquesSA Abbott
7th1MA StarcSA Abbott
8th23SA AbbottMJ Swepson