IND vs AUS, 2nd ODI – Full Match Highlights: The Australian team, after a 5-wicket defeat in the first match of the 3-match ODI series against India, made a spectacular comeback in the second ODI and won by one-sided 10 wickets. In the second match of the series played at Visakhapatnam, the Indian team’s innings was reduced to just 117 runs, in which Mitchell Starc took 5 wickets. After this, the pair of Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh gave the team victory by achieving this target in just 11 overs.
Chasing the target of 118 runs, the opening batsmen of the Australian team had already started scoring runs aggressively from the very first over. After this, stopping him seemed completely impossible for the Indian bowlers. While Travis Head played a brilliant inning of 51 runs in 30 balls, Mitchell Marsh’s bat saw an inning of 66 runs in 36 balls. Both had taken the team’s score to 100 runs within just 9 overs.
Earlier in the match, Australian captain Steve Smith decided to bowl first after winning the toss, which was proved completely correct by Mitchell Starc. Team India got a shock in the first over of the innings in the form of Shubman Gill, who returned to the pavilion without opening the account.
4 batsmen of Indian team could not even open account
If the performance of the Indian team is seen in this match, it was very poor, in which 4 players of the team could not even open their account, apart from this, only 4 batsmen were able to touch the double figure. For the Indian team, Virat Kohli was able to score the highest innings of 31 runs.
In the bowling for the Kangaroo team, Mitchell Starc did the job of sending half the Indian team to the pavilion with 53 runs in 8 overs. Apart from this, Sean Abbott took 3 wickets while Nathan Ellis took 2 wickets. Now the last and decisive match of the series between the two teams will be played on March 22 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
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