New Delhi. When the Indian team faced Australia in the T20 World Cup, there must have been a pang in the hearts of the players. This pang was of the defeat in the final of the ODI World Cup 2023. Australia had snatched the World Cup from India on 19 November last year. The Indian team has largely avenged November 19 by defeating Australia in an important match of the T20 World Cup. India has made it to the semi-finals with this victory. On the other hand, it has become difficult for Australia to play the semi-finals.
The Super-8 match between India and Australia was played in St. Lucia on Monday. Australia won the toss and chose to field first, but their strategy failed. The weather department had predicted that it would rain. Due to this prediction, Australia chose to bowl first. It did rain, but the clouds did not rain. It was Indian captain Rohit Sharma who rained. Rohit Sharma laid the foundation of India’s huge score by scoring 92 runs in 41 balls. Due to this, India scored a mountain of 205 runs for 5 wickets. In response to this score, Australia’s team could only score 181 runs for 7 wickets.
After losing the toss and batting first, India had a bad start. Virat Kohli once again failed to live up to expectations. This time he could not even open his account. But Rohit Sharma recovered India from this setback in one go. Virat Kohli was out in the second over of the match and Rohit Sharma hit 29 runs in the third over. This brought the momentum of the match in India’s favour.
Rohit Sharma was out after scoring 92 runs in 41 balls. This is also his best score in the T20 World Cup. Apart from Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (31), Shivam Dubey (28), Hardik Pandya (27) and Rishabh Pant (15) played brilliantly. Mitchell Starc and Marcus Stoinis took 2-2 wickets for Australia. Josh Hazlewood took one wicket.
Chasing a target of 206 runs, Australia had scored 128 runs for the loss of two wickets at one stage. At that time it seemed that Australia could win the match. But the Indian bowlers kept the pressure on Australia by taking wickets at regular intervals. The result was that the Australian team could only score 181 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. Travis Head scored the highest 76 runs for Australia. Mitchell Marsh scored 37 and Glenn Maxwell scored 20 runs. Arshdeep Singh took the highest 3 wickets for India. Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah and Akshar Patel got one wicket each.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 24, 2024, 23:45 IST