It Was The Third ODI And Dead Rubber Between Australia And India, Australia Winning The Two Previous Matches Of The 3 Game ODI Series And Taking The Series 2-0.
But It Was A Matter Of Honor For India To Deny A Whitewash From The Hands Of Aussies.
For The First Time In Series Indian Captain Virat Kohli Won The Toss And Elected To Bat First. They Made Three Changes In The Team Dropping Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Shami And Mayank Agarwal Who Opened The Innings In First Two ODI's. And Picking Kuldeep Yadav, Shardul Thakur, T. Natranjan And Shubhman Gill.
On The Other Side Aaron Finch The Aussie Captain Had Also Made Some Forced Changes To His Side Because Of Injury Concerns To The Opener David Warner And Resting Pat Cummins And Starc For The T20 And Test Matches. They Went With Sean Abbot, Ashton Agar, And The Debutant Cameron Green.
India Started With Rather Cautiously And Australian Bowlers Did Not Give Much Runs In The Starting Overs. India Lost Their First Wicket In The Shape Of Shikhar Dhawan Who Scored 16 Of 27 Deliveries.
Then Indian Skipper Came To The Crease And Went Along With His Work. He And Shubhman Gill Stitched A Fifty Partnership After Which Gill Fell To Agar Playing A Sweep Shot.
India Soon Found Them Selves In Trouble When They Were 4 For 123 At The Halfway Stage Of Their Innings. In Between Virat Kohli Brought Up His 60th International ODI Fifty. But Soon Got Out To Hazlewood Nicking A Length Ball Outside Off.
Then Hardik Pandya And Ravindra Jadeja Joined Forces And Built A Really Good Partnership Worth 150 Plus In The Last 15 Overs Or So. They Hit All The Aussie Bowlers To The Park, Hardik Pandya Top Scoring With 92 Not Out And Jadeja 66 Not Out Gave Australia A Target Of 302 Runs.
Having Got The Target Of 302 Australia Started Positively. But Lost Their First Wicket In The Fifth Over. When Marnus Labuschagne Was Bowled By Natranjan. Australia Received Their Second Blow In The Shape Of Steve Smith Who Was In Prime Form. Scoring Two Hundreds The Previous Two Games. Steve Smith Got Out To Shardul Thakur Playing A Glance Down The Leg Side Scoring Just 7 Runs.
While Finch Brought Up His Third Consecutive Fifty In This Series. But Was Out Caught At 75 By Dhawan Bowled By Jadeja.
Australia Were In A Spot Of Bother When They Lost 6 Wickets But Still Requiring More Than 90 Runs. But Maxwell And Ashton Agar Steadied Australian Innings With A Brisk Partnership Of 58 Runs.
34 Of 32 Balls Were Required When The Last Recognized And Set Batsmen Maxwell Tried To Smash A Yorker From Bumrah But Got His Stumps Rattled. He Got Out On 59 Off 38. After That Australia Couldn't Recover And Eventually Got Bowled Out For 289 And Losing By 13 Runs.
Hardik Pandya Was Ajudged Man Of The Match For His Match Winning 92*. While Steve Smith Was Given The Man Of The Series Award. Australia Lost The Match But Won The Series 2-1.
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