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India have won the toss and have opted to bat

India (Playing XI):

Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli(c), Lokesh Rahul, Rishabh Pant(w), Kedar Jadhav, Vijay Shankar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah

Australia (Playing XI):

Aaron Finch(c), Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Ashton Turner, Alex Carey(w), Jhye Richardson, Pat Cummins, Jason Behrendorff, Adam Zampa

IND 58/0 (10.0 Ovs)

IND 136/0 (23.0 Ovs)

out Caught by Handscomb! In the race to the hundred, Rohit Sharma holes out and that's a prize wicket for Australia. He's gift-wrapped it and given it to the Aussies.95

FOUR, flat one down leg-side, Dhawan swivels on his heel and paddles it away to the long stop fence for four - and that's Dhawan's 16th ODI hundred! Off comes the helmet, and Gabbar is well and truly back. Shows off those biceps, like an Indian God, weapon in one hand, and the shield (helmet) in the other. Smiles in relief at the dressing room.

india 230-1 32 ova

IND 233/1 (36.0 Ovs) CRR: 6.47

Dhawan 125(109)
Rahul 11(15

Rohit Sharma c Handscomb b Jhye Richardson 95 (92

37.4
Pat Cummins to Dhawan, out Bowled!! Misses a straight ball trying to slog across the line, tried to go towards mid-wicket, completely misses the ball and the top of middle stump is pegged back. End of a fantastic innings from Dhawan. Made great use of a good batting surface.

Dhawan b Pat Cummins 143(115) [4s-18 6s-3]


IND 254/2 (37.4 Ovs) CRR: 6.74

39.4
J Richardson to Kohli, out Caught by Carey!! That's a lucky break for Australia. Richardson bowls a really wide full ball, Kohli tried to chase that and squeeze it for four, but he gets an edge, bat hit the ground almost at the same time but umpire Kumar Dharmasena was only concerned about it being a clean catch.

Kohli c Carey b J Richardson 7(6) [4s-1]

42.6
Zampa to Rahul, out Caught by Carey!! Thin edge and taken by Carey. Flatter delivery outside off stump, Rahul tries to guide it fine for four to third man, but ends up guiding it to the keeper. He walks without waiting for the decision. Carey whips the bails off to be doubly sure as Rahul jumped for a moment, but he knew he hit that.

Rahul c Carey b Zampa 26(31) [4s-1]

45.3
Pat Cummins to Pant, out Caught by Finch!! This is the problem of swinging without balance. Fullish delivery from Pat Cummins, Pant goes hard looking to loft, gets it on the bottom of the bat and it's an easy catch to Finch at mid-on. Cummins is well inside on the no-ball.

Pant c Finch b Pat Cummins 36(24) [4s-4 6s-1]

IND 358/9 (50.0 Ovs)

0.4
Bhuvneshwar to Finch, out Bowled!! Kumar announces his arrival to the Indian team in grand style. Leg-stump is flattened and roars reverberate across the ground as Finch falls for a duck. Big breakthrough for India and it's again that inswinger which has been Finch's achilles heel for sometime now. Cut back in a long way after pitching, the Australian captain was shuffling across and failed to combat the extra nip. Huge gap between bat and pad as he plays it down the wrong line. Enough for the ball to sneak through the gate and clatter the stumps.

Finch b Bhuvneshwar 0(2)

3.3
Bumrah to Shaun Marsh, out Bowled!! Knocked him over. Bumrah unleashes the yorker, full pacy and Marsh had no answers. Second wicket down for Australia and they have been shaken early. It swung in the air, Marsh was late to spot it and before he could get his bat down, the ball had crashed into the off-pole. Lethal stuff from Bumrah. It wasn't a full-fledged yorker, sort of dipped after pitching on a fuller length and still it was a good enough to strike the off-stump.

Shaun Marsh b Bumrah 6(10) [4s-1]

17.6
Shankar to Khawaja, 1 run, good length delivery outside off, Khawaja leans into a drive through cover, runs his hands through it, and that's Khawaja's 7th ODI fifty, the second time he has reached his 7th in two matches. A fantastic knock to follow his maiden ODI hundred - he has all but booked his ticket to England

Batting clinic

IND 358/9 (50.0 Ovs)

AUS 359/6 (47.5 Ovs)

Australia won by 4 wkts