Raipur: India defeated Australia by 20 runs to clinch the 5-match series as now the Men in Blue lead the series by 3-1, confirmed BCCI.
Axar Patel provided some crucial wickets to India and Rinku Singh played some explosive shots to bring the seris victory home.
Axar Patel is displaying his magic today as he dismissed dangerous Travis Head, Aaron Hardie and Ben McDermott to derail Australian batting. Ravi Bishnoi is also bowling really well and having close calls with the wickets.
Matthew Wade won the toss and chose to bowl first. Both sides have made a number of changes, four for India and five for Australia. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad put up a 50-run opening partnership before the former fell off the last ball of the powerplay. India were pegged back with Suryakumar and Shreyas Iyer both falling within a few balls of each other but Rinku Singh led a fightback with a 48-run stand for the fourth wicket with Gaikwad that came in 31 balls. Jitesh Sharma then stayed up with Rinku’s strike rate and the pair put up 56 runs fort the fifth wicket off just 32 balls. It was a bit of a collapse for India after that with Ben Dwarshius and Jason Behrendorff taking two wickets each in the 19th and 20th overs.
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