India Vs Australia - One off T20 International Update

Toss Time:

MSD won the toss and elected to field first. Yuvi back to the India playing XI. George Bailey is the captain today for Australia.

Teams:

Australia - George Bailey (Captain), Finch, Maddinson, Maxwell, Henriques, Watson, Haddin, Coulter-Nile, Faulkner, McKay, Doherty

India - MS Dhoni (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Dhawan, Kohli, Raina, Yuvraj, Jadeja, Ashwin, Bhuvaneswar Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Ishanth Sharma.

Bailey Captaincy Record:

George Bailey is the second man captaining Australia for his very first match after Boycott. Today is the debut T20 international match for Bailey and same match he is leading his national side.

Maddinson quick fire start:

Another debutant of this match, 21 years Maddinson. He played a gem of innings, he scored 34 quick fire runs in the start of the innings. He smashed boundaries to the all the frontline Indian bowlers. Specially he hits 4 boundaries to the Ashwin's over. He got out clean bowled by B.Kumar, 34 off 16 balls with 6 boundaries and a six. He himself and Aaron finch together scored a quick fire 56 runs partnership just 29 balls.

Brilliant over by Vinay Kumar:

Vinay Kumar produce a great over in the middle, he bowled 8th over of the innings and picked two wickets in the same over both dangerous batsmen Watson & Bailey. Brilliant over it changed the game tempo of the australia. Aussies were 3 wickets for 84 runs at the end of 8 overs.

Dangerous Aaron Finch:

Three Wickets fell in the quick time for australia but at the other end Aaron Finch doesn't stop his rhythm. He played his shot and trouble indian bowlers. He reached his half century and his score of 89 runs from 52 balls is the highest individual score of Australian batsman from India in T20 International.

Great bowling at the death:

Aussies going at around 11 per over at the end of 16 overs. Aussies were 171-3 at the end of 16 overs. Vinay kumar come back into the attack and he produce the blinder, took a great return catch by to departs dangerous Finch in the 17th over.

Then tempo of the australian innings disturbed, Aussies scored just 29 runs in the last 24 balls. Faulkner hit the big six in the last ball of the innings. Aussies managed to score a 201 runs loss of 7 wickets, which is the aussies highest score against india in T20 International.

Rohit went Early & Raina promoted the order:

Rohit and Dhawan walks into the middle to chase the big target of 202. Bailey starts, Watson to bowl the first over of the innings and he produced the brilliant first over and conceded just 2 runs in it. Rohit welcomes Mckay into the crease with massive SIX, McKay get Rohit in the last over of the match.

Dhoni promote Raina up the order after the brilliant performance in the CLT20 2013. Dhawan & Raina, two left hander playing a cameo innings, both build a brilliant partnership of 38 runs just 21 balls. Raina hit a big six of the Couter-Nile  very next ball he got out.

Kohli, Dhawan falls after a start:

Then Kohli joined with Dhawan, started building the partnership. But dhawan once again got out after a start, he scored 32 of 19 balls and then Kohli hit few master shots in the middle. He also got out after a start, he scored 29 of 22 with one massive six.

Two Dangerous Batsmen:

India was at deep trouble, 100-4 in 11.1 overs. They need another 102 runs just 53 balls, 6 wickets in hand.

Two Big finishers in the world joined together to finish this game with win. Yuvraj started to hit the ball in the middle of the bat. He smashed the ball into the boundaries in a regular interval. Yuvraj looks like 10 years back in his fitness wise as well as batting skill & form too. He is back to the international team after a gap and make his name into the indian selectors am still alive with great form with this brilliant knock.

Dhoni at the other end give great company to Yuvi. First time, we are seeing very unlike dhoni innings from the past three years. He played very slow innings of 24 runs from the 21 balls while chasing the big total in the death. Yuvi took all the pressure from Dhoni and hit the ball very well. Dhoni hit the winning shot
with four and couple of runs in the last two balls of the innings.

Performer of the day:

India won the match by 6 wickets and 2 balls to spare. Yuvraj got the man of the match award for his brilliant knock of 77 runs with 5 big sixes and 8 massive boundaries. He scored 62 runs from the boundaries of his 77 runs.