Desk Report
Published: 17 Oct 2022, 05:39 pm
Mohammed Shami strengthened his case for a place in India's Playing XI at the T20 World Cup as he produced a fiery, match-winning over to take his team over the line in the warm-up match against Australia in Brisbane on Monday || Photo: Collected
Brilliant
last over from Mohammad Shami (3/4) and fantastic 19th over from Harshal Patel
helped India beat Australia by 6 runs in the 1st warm-up clash. While Australia
seemed to be cruising with Aaron Finch smashing 79, the complexion changed in
the last two overs. Australia lost 6 wickets in the last 12 deliveries to hand
the match to India. Earlier, Suryakumar Yadav and KL Rahul smashed 50s to help
India post 186/7.
Chasing
187, Aaron Finch gave Australia a brilliant start. With Mitchell Marsh, he
brought up 64-run stand, keeping Australia in cruise control. While Bhuvneshwar
Kumar removed Marsh and soon Steve Smith departed, Australia still continued to
plunder with Glenn Maxwell and Finch taking charge. The two added 48 runs to
take Australia almost through.
Finch
in lethal form destroyed Arshdeep Singh as he slammed the Indian bowler for 17
runs in the 14th over of the innings. Finch also brought up his fifty while
hammering Indian bowlers all around the ground. At this point, no Indian
bowlers were able to restrict Australian batters from smashing runs.
Experience
pacer Bhuvneshwar gave his team a big breakthrough as he dismissed Maxwell for
23 runs off 16 balls. In the last three overs, Australia needed 29 runs to win.
Harshal Patel was brought back into the attack and he proved his captain’s
decision right as he removed well-set batter Finch for 79 off 54 in the 19th
over of the innings. The Australian captain’s knock was decorated with seven
fours and three sixes. At the same over Tim David was run out by Virat Kohli.
In the
penultimate over Australia needed 11 runs to win and Virat Kohli displayed his
fine fielding as he took a one-handed catch of Pat Cummins. On the very next
ball of the over Ashton Agar was run out without opening his tally. On the
fifth delivery of the over Shami bowled out Josh Inglis for one run and bundled
out the hosts for 180. Shami delivered a stunning last-over spell of 2, 2, W W
W W, helping India to defeat Australia by 6 runs.
Earlier,
KL Rahul smashed 57 off 33 while Suryakumar Yadav scored 50 off 33 to guide Men
in Blue to a total of 186/7. For Australia Kane Richardson scalped stunning
four wickets while Glenn Maxwell and Ashton Agar bagged one wicket each.
Put
to bat first, India got off to a decent start as their opener KL Rahul hammered
Australian bowlers all around the ground, smashing 56 runs in just 5 overs of
the innings. While smashing Australian bowlers Rahul brought up his
half-century in 27 balls.
Skipper
Rohit Sharma also shifted gears and Glenn Maxwell for a six and a four in the
sixth over of the innings. At the end of the powerplay, Team India’s score read
69/0.
In
the 8th over of the innings, Maxwell provided his team with a big breakthrough
as he dismissed blistering batter Rahul for 57 off 33 deliveries. Rahul’s
wicket invited in-form batter Virat Kohli to the crease.
Ashton Agar then provided his team with a big wicket of India captain Rohit as the batter tried to pull a deep mid-wicket shot but handed an easy catch to Maxwell in the 9th over of the innings. The India captain departed after scoring 15 runs in 14 deliveries. After 10 overs of the play, India’s score read 89/2.
New
batter Suryakumar Yadav and Kohli joined hands to slam Australian bowlers for
boundaries while taking singles at regular intervals. Kohli’s stint on the
crease was cut short as he was dismissed by Mitchell Starc after scoring for 19
from 13 balls.
Hardik
Pandya then came out to bat on the crease, but the latter could not do much as
he departed after just scoring two runs on the delivery of Kane Richardson.
India kept losing wickets at regular intervals as the batters struggled to play
against Australian bowlers after 10 overs.
Dinesh
Karthik then came out to bat. Karthik tried to pull a shot but it went straight
to the fielder stationed at deep mid-wicket on the delivery of Richardson.
Karthik departed after playing a cameo of 20 runs in 14 delivery.
However,
Suryakumar continued the carnage on the Australian bowlers as he hammered Pat
Cummins for 14 runs in the 18th over of the innings. In the last over of the
innings, Suryakumar brought up his half-century off 33.
In
the last over of the innings, Richardson gave India back-to-back blows
dismissing Suryakumar Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin to restrict Men in Blue to
a total of 186/7 in 20 overs of the innings.
Australia
Squad: Aaron Finch(c), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Marcus
Stoinis, Josh Inglis(w), Tim David, Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc,
Kane Richardson
India
Squad: Rohit Sharma(c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda,
Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Dinesh Karthik, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar
Patel, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal,
Arshdeep Singh_Agencies