Virat Kohli’s Indian cricket team needed 37 runs in the last three overs. Virat Kohli was dismissed under a 50 for the first time in a T20I in Sydney and the pressure mounted. However, India had Hardik Pandya and he yet again demonstrated his match-winning ability in Twenty20 Internationals by first smashing six and a four off Adam Zampa. Two more fours off Andrew Tye In the 19th over meant India needed 14 off the last over. Hardik Pandya blasted two sixes off Daniel Sams as India won the match by six wickets and took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
This makes the Indian cricket team the second nation after Sri Lanka to win two Twenty20 International series in Australia, with the Sri Lankan team winning three consecutive from 2010 to 2017. It was yet again the depth of the Indian batting that came through against an Australian bowling attack that lacked experience and the ability to generate pressure on a consistent bassis.
Slow start but…