Australian spinners Adam Zampa and Ashton Agar turned the match handy India their first one-day worldwide sequence defeat at residence since 2019 in an exhilarating third and last match in Chennai on Wednesday.
Left-arm spinner Agar eliminated in-form Virat Kohli (54) and the world’s top-rated Twenty20 batter Suryakumar Yadav for his third consecutive golden duck with the primary two balls of the thirty sixth over to depart the hosts reeling at 185-6 with a goal of 270 to win.
The guests received the match by 21 runs after bowling out the hosts for 248 within the final over.
The 2-1 win within the sequence was additionally necessary apply on South Asian pitches for Australia earlier than the ODI World Cup in India later this 12 months.
Australia’s stand-in-captain Steve Smith received the toss and selected to bat first within the series-decider.
India bowled out Australia for 269 and have been cruising within the first 10 overs of their chase earlier than skipper Rohit Sharma fell after a 17-ball 30 with the crew at 65-1.
Sharma’s in-form opening companion Shubman Gill fell after a gentle 49-ball 37 to leg-spinner Zampa.
India’s star batters Kohli and KL Rahul struck a busy 69-run partnership earlier than Rahul fell to Zampa for 32.
The hosts’ in any other case dependable lower-middle order provided little resistance. All-rounders Hardik Pandya (40) and Ravindra Jadeja (18) additionally fell to Zampa, who completed with 4-45 in his 10-over spell.
Zampa was named participant of the match however stated his spin-partner Agar, who completed with 2-41, really “changed the game”.
“I probably don’t think I deserve this one tonight to be honest,” Zampa stated after the sport.
“Kudos to the guys who bowled before me as well … We always have a lot of trust in each other, trust in our process and trust in our game plan. and we stick to it,” he added.
Australian pacers Sean Abbott and Marcus Stoinis took one wicket every. -’Loss actually hurts’- Three wickets apiece from Hardik Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav left India in want of 270 to win the sequence, which stood at 1-1 going into the ultimate sport.
Sharma stated that Indian batters failed to hold on after getting a begin to “take the game deep”.
“All of us were trying our best to go out and achieve that but it just didn’t happen,” the Indian skipper stated.
“Obviously a loss like this really hurts. But again we can understand what we need to do better as a team, as a group,” he added.
Earlier, Pandya (3-44) and India’s left-arm spinner Kuldeep (3-56) performed an necessary function in limiting Australia to a chaseable 269 within the forty ninth over.
By the eighth over, in-form openers Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh had hit 10 boundaries between them, together with three sixes, and regarded set for a commanding partnership earlier than Pandya took the fast wickets of Head (33), Smith (0) and Marsh (47).
Yadav had the higher of the center order starting with David Warner, who made 23 batting at quantity 4 on his return from the elbow fracture that compelled him out of the second Test in February.
Marnus Labuschagne (28) was subsequent however Alex Carey stubbornly held on for one more 10 overs earlier than his departure on 38.
Left-arm spinner Axar Patel and frontline pacer Mohammed Siraj every took two wickets as Sean Abbott (26), Agar (17) and Mitchell Starc (10) added necessary runs to a below-par rating.
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
