First T-20: Australia Win Home Series After Nine Months, Beat India By 4 Runs

Due to rain, the match was 17-17 overs, according to the Duckworth-Lewis rule, India has to score 174 runs.
Australia scored 158 runs in 4 wickets in 17 overs, due to rain, an hour of the match was wasted.

Brisbane: Australia defeated India by four runs on the Duckworth-Lewis rule on Wednesday in the first T20 of the three-match series. Australia won on the home ground after nine months in the T-20 format. Earlier, it won on February 10 this year at home ground in T20. Then it defeated England by seven wickets. This match was done for 17-17 over due to rain. Australia’s Adam Zampa was adjudged Man of the Match. He got #Virat Kohli and Lokesh Rahul’s wicket for 22 runs. Glenn Maxwell remains the most successful batsman from Australia. He scored 46 runs off 24 balls with the help of four sixes. Shikhar Dhawan has scored the highest runs from India. Dhawan scored 76 runs in 42 balls with 10 boundaries and two sixes.

India won the toss and chose to bowl: India won the toss and decided to bowl. Australia scored 158 runs in four wickets in 17 overs. However, due to the Duckworth-Lewis rule, India got the target of 174 runs in 17 overs. Team India got 169 runs in seven overs in 17 overs. Due to rain, one hour of the match was wasted. When the first ball of the 17th over was bowled during the Australian batting, then the rain came. When the match starts, the umpires decided to make the match 17-17 over.

Australian innings: Khaleel took the first wicket:

First wicket: Australia’s first wicket dropped as D’Arcy Short. At that time the team’s score was 24 runs. Short made seven runs in 12 balls. Kuldeep Yadav was caught on the mid-on Khaleel Ahmed’s ball.

Second wicket: Captain #Aaron Finch added 40 runs for the second wicket with Chris Lynn after short out. On this score Kuldeep Yadav got Finch caught by Khaleel Ahmed at backward point. He scored 27 runs in 24 balls.

Third wicket: Kuldeep caught Chris Lynn on the first ball of his next over. At that time Australia’s score was 75 in 10.1 overs. Lynn scored 37 runs in 20 balls with the help of one boundary and four sixes.

Fourth wicket: Match was not played for one hour due to rain. For this reason, the umpires made the match 17-17 over instead of 20-20. When the match resumed after the rain stopped, Bumrah got Maxwell out on his first ball. Bhuvneshwar caught the catch on square leg. Maxwell scored 46 runs in 24 balls with four sixes.

Marcus Stoinis scored 33 runs in 19 balls and returned unbeaten to the pavilion. Stoinis hit three boundaries and a six. Ben McDermott also remained unbeaten after scoring two runs in three balls.

Indian innings: Shikhar-Rohit added 35 runs in 25 balls:

First wicket: India’s good start. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma added 35 runs for the first wicket. However, in this 27 runs were from Shikhar’s bat. Rohit could score only seven runs. On the first ball of the fifth over, Aaron Finch caught Rohit at mid-on on Jason Behrendorff’s ball.

Second wicket: After this, Shikhar combined with Lokesh Rahul to add 46 runs for the second wicket in 26 balls. Among them, Dhawan scored 32 off 14 balls and Rahul scored 13 runs in 12 balls. When the team’s score was 81, then, Adam Zampa’s googly, Rahul tried to hit him out but failed, and wicketkeeper Alex Carey stumped him. However, it was decided by the Third Umpire.

Third wicket: Captain Virat Kohli came on the crease after Rahul, but he could not do anything special and became the victim of Zampa by having four runs in eight balls. Chris Lynn caught the catch on the Zampa ball on the third man. When Kohli was out, India scored 94 runs in 10.5 overs.

Fourth wicket: Shikhar also became the victim of Billy Stanlake after 11 balls after Virat returned to the pavilion. He tried to cross the ball to the boundary, but Jason Behrendorff snatched the catch at third man. At that time, India’s score was 105 runs from 4 wickets in 11.4 overs.

Fifth wicket: After this Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik reached the team’s score of 150. It seemed a time to give victory to both the teams, but only after playing a wrong shot, Rishabh got caught by Behrendorff on Andrew Tye’s ball. He scored 20 runs in 16 balls with the help of one boundary, one six.

Sixth wicket: Rishabh was dismissed when India was to make 18 runs in nine balls to win. Krunal Pandya came on the crease but he made only two runs in four balls. Maxwell caught his catch on a long-on on Stoinis’s ball.

Seventh wicket: At the time of the dismissal of the Krunal, the team had to score 11 runs in three balls to win. Since the strike had changed, so were the Karthik in front of Stoinis’s. He tried to send the ball across the boundary, but Behrendorf caught the catch on the long-on.

With his dismissal, the hopes of India’s victory were over. The next ball became wide. After this Bhuvneshwar Kumar scored one run. Kuldeep hit on the last ball, but it was inadequate to win.

Dhawan celebration of 50 runs on 49 runs: Shikhar Dhawan completed his half-century in 28 balls. He scored 43 runs for 26 balls. He hit six on the 27th ball. He felt that his half-century was over and he raised the bat with the intention of accepting the greetings of the audience, but then he looked towards the scoreboard. On the next ball, he scored two runs to complete his half-century. However, this time he did not celebrate.

A score of 200+ is made only once on Gabba: In the T20 at Brisbane’s Gabba ground, only 200 runs have been crossed. Australia scored 209 runs in the T20 against South Africa against South Africa in 2006. The lowest score on the field so far was also made in the same match. Then the whole team of South Africa managed to score 114 runs in 18.3 overs. The Highest Chase score at this ground is 161/4 later. On 13 January 2009, Australia scored 161 for 4 wickets in 18.5 overs in reply to South Africa’s 157 for five wickets in 20 overs. The Lowest Defended Score is 191/6 on this field. West Indies played against Australia in February 2013, scored 191 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, the Australians were able to score only 164 runs for eight wickets in 20 overs.

The teams are:

India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed

Australia: Aaron Finch (Captain), D’Arcy Short, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Ben McDermott, Alex Cary (Wicketkeeper), Andrew Tye, Jason Behrendorf, Adam Zampa, Billy Stanlake.