India made a remarkable comeback with an impressive six-wicket win in a do or die second T20I at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur on September 23.
Now Series is Label at 1-1 with 3rd T20I will he Played at Hyderabad on 25th September.
India’s Ace Pacer Jasprit Bumrah also makes his comeback in the series and removed Australian Captain on 31 off 15 with his trademark Yorker.
By Batting First Australia put 90 Runs on the board by loosing 5 wickets 8 overs game, due to Wet Outfield match starts late.
Mathew Wade scored fine 43 in Just 20 balls and Axar Patel bowled brilliant spell of 2/13 in 2 overs.
By Chasing 91, Captain Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul got India off to a brisk start as they added 39 runs for the opening wicket.KL Rahul scored 10 form 6 before he bowled by Adam Zampa, Virat Kohli also scored 11 runs from 6 balls including 2 fours but he also bowled by Adam Zampa. Surya Kumar Yadav dismissed on Golden duck by Zampa. But Captain Rohit Sharma played a brilliant knock under pressure. He scored 46 runs from just 20 balls including 4 sixes and 3 fours.
Dinesh Karthik scored 10 from 2 as India chased down the target by 4 balls left.
Winning skipper and Player of the Match, Rohit Sharma said:
“I was quite surprised as well actually. Didn’t expect to hit it like that, glad it came off. For the last 8-9 months I have been playing like that. You can’t really plan too much is such a shortened game. The bowlers had something to bowl to and we bowled well.
The dew started coming in later, which is why we saw a few full tosses from Harshal. Coming back after a couple of months, the back injury can be tricky. I am not going to talk too much about how he bowled. Got us the crucial wicket. As a team we are not going to analyse too much. Just want him to come and enjoy.
Axar can bowl in any stage, gives me an advantage of using the other bowlers in different situations too – maybe use the pacers in the middle overs if he bowls in the powerplay. I would like to see his batting as well.
Glad DK could finish well. Been a while since he had some time in the middle. There was this thought if we should get Rishabh in but I thought Sams is going to bowl off-cutters, so I thought let DK come in and he is playing that role anyway for us. Groundsmen have been here since 1.30 pm to get the outfield ready.”
Losing skipper Aaron Finch said:
You probably plan for a 5-over game and then a bit more to it. Rohit played brilliantly and two overs of Axar made the difference. Wade is a calm customer at the back end and he has grown into that finisher’s role. Zampa was good too.
