Skipper Virat Kohli played a sweet cameo after yet another impressive show by the bowling unit as India comfortably beat Australia by nine wickets in a rain- curtailed opening T20 International, in Ranchi on Saturday. Rohit Sharma hit debutant left-arm pacer Jason Behrendorff for a boundary and flicked nathan Coulter-Nile for a six beforte being cleaned up. However the third over bowled by Andrew Tye decisively clinched the match in India's favour as Dhawan and Kohli got a boundary each to get 11 runs. Man of the match Yadav finished with figures of 2/16 in 4 overs, complemented well by Jasprit Bumrah's (2/17 in 3 overs) toe crushing yorkers. Finch looked in fine form with four boundaries and one six but against Yadav, he looked determined to play the sweep shot.

Source: dna October 07, 2017 17:48 UTC