It was
a very poor decision of Aaron Finch after winning the consecutive 3rd
toss against team India’s captain Virat Kohli. Everybody knows about the
chasing record of India at home. While he has not considered some other
elements that it’s a typical Bengaluru pitch and its just an outstanding pitch
to bat on specially in second innings. So, I would say it was a suicide attempt
from Australian captain and he come to know after the game.
Well
it was an extra ordinary start from Indian bowlers. They hit the right areas
with good seam and swing initially and then followed by score board pressure
also creates a situation of panic for Australian batting order. As Muhammad Shami
got David Warner in his second over with a beauty and then early runout of
Aaron Finch creates a lot of pressure for Smith and Labuschagne.
Both
managed well till 31st over but as Virat Kohli took an outstanding catch of
Labuschagne Australian dressing room got panic and they send out Mitchell Starc
in the middle because they felt a slow run rate pressure, but he was taken by
Ravindra Jadeja in the same over. After that Australian players tried a lot to
increase the run rate, but wickets were keep falling against a tight bowling of
Indian bowlers.
They
really missed a Glenn Maxwel today because he is in such a good form and read
the Indian conditions very well. Smith scored a good century, but it was not
enough in the end. He scored 131 runs on 132 balls by hitting 14 fours and 1
six and got some good partnerships with Marnus Labuschagne and Alex Carey at
the other end. So, after 50 overs Aussies scored 286 Runs by losing 9 wickets.
After
not putting enough total they start bowling like playing cricket first time. Their
top-ranking bowlers Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc was bowling like no where in
the middle, a complete off color outside off stump giving too much room and
ultimately Indian openers have not showed any mercy. Rohit Sharma showed his pure
class by hitting fours and sixes all around the ground.
On the
other hand, Josh Hazlewood who was playing first game of the series kept a good
line and length and troubled both openers in his first spell and conceded just few
runs in first 4 overs. But what a batting performance showed by 2 Indian
Cricket Superstars Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli they have batted like Kings of
Cricket. Rohit got out after scoring 119 runs which includes 8 fours and 6
sixes and Virat Kohli scored 89 runs by hitting 8 boundaries.
After
setting a good platform for middle order as Rohit Sharma got out, we have seen
some beautiful hitting of emerging Shreyas Iyer. What an outstanding talent he
is? He was not out till the end and scored 44 runs on just 35 balls by hitting
beautiful 6 fours and an incredible to watch 6 over the mid-wicket boundary to Mitchell
Starc.
Well
it was a very good series for cricket fans all around the world. India have
checked their bench strength against a quality Australian team. They have got
some injuries of Shikhar Dhawan and Rishabh Pant. I hope both will be fine and we
would love to see them against an upcoming T20 series against New Zealand.
While
Australia is going to tour South Africa next so I think Ashton Turner will be
out of the squad while some guys will in like Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis and
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Good Effort bro ❤
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