IND vs AUS / India's biggest run chase against Australia - Team India won by 2 wickets

IND vs AUS: India has won the first match of the T-20 series against Australia by 2 wickets. The team achieved the target of 209 runs with the loss of 8 wickets in the last ball of the 20th over. This is India's biggest run chase against the Kangaroos in T20. Earlier, the most successful run chase was 202/4, which India did in Rajkot in 2013. For Team India, captain Suryakumar Yadav played innings of 80 runs and Ishan Kishan played innings of 58 runs. In the end Rinku Singh scored 22 runs on 14 balls.

In Visakhapatnam, Australia lost the toss and batted first and scored 208 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs. Josh English scored the first century on behalf of the team. He played an inning of 110 runs on 50 balls. Steve Smith (58 runs) scored a half-century.

India lost 2 wickets in the middle overs

The Indian team bowled big overs in the middle overs. Ishan Kishan played big shots and made the spinners his target. Kishan and Surya gave 19 runs to Tanveer Sangha in the 9th over. After this, in the 11th and 13th overs also, the Indian batsmen scored 11-run overs in front of Tanveer Sangha. The wickets of Ishan Kishan fell in the 13th over and Tilak Verma in the 15th over, but Rinku Singh and Surya together released the pressure by scoring 16 runs in the 16th over. In the middle overs, India lost 2 wickets and scored 108 runs.

What happened in the middle overs

Ishan Kishan's half-century. Kishan completed his 7th half-century of T-20 International. He played an innings of 58 runs in 39 balls.

Century partnership between Kishan and Surya: There was a partnership of 108 runs in 60 balls between Kishan and Surya. Out of this, Surya scored 48 runs and Kishan scored 57 runs.

Sangha was expensive. Tanveer Sangha, despite taking 2 wickets in 4 overs, gave 47 runs at an economy of 11.75.

Indian openers returned to the pavilion, explosive innings from Surya-Ishaan

The Indian team, which set out to chase the target of 209 runs, did not have a good start. In the first over of Marcus Stoinis, opener Ruturaj Gaikwad returned to the pavilion without playing any ball. He was run out.

In such a situation, Ishan Kishan was trying to save the team from the shock when Yashasvi Jaiswal was out after scoring 21 runs in the third over. From here Ishan Kishan and captain Suryakumar Yadav together scored runs rapidly. Both scored 20 runs in Shaun Abbott's over. In the powerplay, Team India scored 63 runs for two wickets.

Australia gave the biggest target to India, English century

The Australian team, batting first after losing the toss in Visakhapatnam, scored 208 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs.

Josh Inglis played an explosive inning of 110 runs on 50 balls. He scored the first century of his T-20 career. Apart from English, Steve Smith contributed 52 runs. Both of them made a partnership of 130 runs on 66 balls.

For India, Prasidh Krishna and Ravi Bishnoi took one wicket each. One batsman was run out.

Australia added 47 runs in the death overs

Australia added 47 runs in the death overs. Australia's batsmen added 18 runs in front of Arshdeep Singh in the 17th over. Josh English was out after scoring a century in the 18th over, but still 16 runs were scored in the 19th over. In the 20th over, Mukesh Kumar bowled brilliantly and gave only 5 runs. Australia added 47 runs in the death over and India got 1 wicket.

Australia's dominance in the middle overs

Australia scored quickly in the middle overs. Steve Smith supported Josh Inglis and scored runs at 8+ run rate in every over. English scored 21 runs against Ravi Bishnoi in the 15th over. With this, Smith and English made a partnership of 130 runs in 66 balls. Steve Smith was run out in the 16th over. In the middle overs, Australia added 101 runs after losing one wicket.

Half-centuries of Jose Inglis and Steve Smith: Jose Inglis completed his half-century in just 29 balls. He crossed the 50 mark for the first time in T-20. At the same time, Steve Smith scored the fifth half-century of his T-20 career.

Century partnership between Inglis and Smith: There was a partnership of 130 runs in 66 balls between Jos Inglis and Steve Smith. In this, Smith scored 34 runs and English scored 94 runs.

Bishnoi gave an over of 21 runs in the 15th over: Ravi Bishnoi gave a total of 54 runs in his quota of 4 overs with an economy of 13.50. He proved to be the fifth most expensive Indian spinner in terms of scoring the most runs in T20.

Australia had an average start, scoring at a run rate of 6.66.

The Australian team, which came to bat first, had an average start. The team scored 40 runs for one wicket in 6 overs of powerplay. In the powerplay, the Australian team scored runs at a run rate of 6.66. After the sixth over the team's score was 40/1.

The opening pair of Steve Smith and Matthew Short scored at a run rate of around 6, however, they were bowled by Ravi Bishnoi on the fourth ball of the 5th over. Short was out after scoring 13 runs.

Playing-11 of both the teams

Australia: Matthew Wade (captain/wk), Steve Smith, Matthew Short, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardy, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Shaun Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Jason Behrendorff, Tanvir Sangha.

India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna and Mukesh Kumar.