However, a lengthy mid-innings rain break left Australia needing 164 runs in 21 overs to go 1-0 up in the five-match series. Glenn Maxwell smashed 39 and James Faulkner made 32 not out but Pandya (2-28) and India's spin duo of Yuzvendra Chahal (3-30) and Kuldeep Yadav (2-33) combined to restrict Australia to 137-9. A 200-plus score looked a distant dream for the hosts at that stage but Pandya and Dhoni had other ideas. Pandya clobbered Adam Zampa for three successive sixes in a 24-run over, bringing up his fifty off 48 balls in the process. Yadav dismissed David Warner for 25 but Maxwell looked in murderous mood as he clobbered the left-arm wristspinner for three successive sixes.

Source: The Star September 17, 2017 17:03 UTC