Finance
By: Shree1news, 04 DEC 2020
India beat Australia by 11 runs within the first T20I of the 3-match seriesIndia defeated Australia by 11 runs within the first Twenty20 International (T20I) to take 1-0 lead within the three-match series on Friday. After KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja took India to a aggressive complete of 161 for seven, bowlers, especially T Natarajan and Yuzvendra Chahal, helped the visitors to limit Australia to 150/7. Chahal, who got here in as a concussion substitute for Jadeja, was the decide of the bowlers for India. The leg-spinner returned with figures of three for 25 from his quota of four overs.
Chasing 162, Australia got off to a solid start with Aaron Finch and D’Arcy Short scoring freely in the powerplay.
Finch was sent back in the eighth over by Chahal as he holed out to Hardik Pandya at long-off.
The leg-spinner struck again in his next over and removed the in-form Steve Smith as Sanju Samson completed an excellent diving catch within the deep.
Debutant T Natarajan then trapped Glenn Maxwell in front of the stumps with a length ball that came again in.
After Maxwell’s dismissal, the hosts batsmen kept losing wickets at regular intervals and eventually fell 11 runs short of the 162-run goal.
Earlier in the game, Aaron Finch had won the toss and invited India to bat.
India lost their first wicket within the third over as Mitchell Starc cleaned up Shikhar Dhawan for one.
Virat Kohli (9) too failed with the bat and was outdone by Mitchell Swepson.
KL Rahul hit a half-century but the middle-order failed to capitalise. Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson and Hardik Pandya couldn’t get going.
Source: A-N
