Venue: Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune
Toss Winner: Australia and choose to bat first.
Winner of the Match: Australia won by 72 runs
Man of the Match:
Umpires: RA Kettleborough and VA Kulkarni.
Today India and Australia were playing against each other
and this was their first match of the 7 ODI’s series. Australian team won the
toss and chooses to bat first. Their opening batsman provided the much needed
start. For the first wicket they contributed 110 runs. PJ Hughes and AJ Finch
scored 47 and 72 runs respectively. Then the middle order also performed quite
well in their performance. GJ Bailey who came on the fourth number played very
good innings. In his 85 runs knock out of 82 balls, 10 fours were hit by them. His
much contribution contributed in a big manner for their team. Then players who
came in the last over also scored runs and gave the much needed finish. So in
50 over match, they scored 304 runs. India was having a chasing score of 305
runs.
Batting second India had bad start as they lost the
Dhawan wicket in early score of 26 runs. Then Rohit Sharma and Virat kohli
scored 42 runs and 61 runs to help the team steer out of the troubles mounting
on them. But after their wicket fell, none of the other team member could able
to score the runs. And slowly the run rate was mounting high. On the other hand,
wickets were slowly started to fell. And in 49.4 overs, India scored 232 runs
and got all out in it.