India vs Australia 2017, 2nd T20I was one of those matches that the hosts always tend to stay away from. There always comes a time, whenever the Indian squad is going through its best of forms, when they witness a humiliating loss and that too, with dependence on the top batting order being the prime reason.
While Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati was the latest venue to taste the spicy flavor of the shortest cricket format and expectations were something we never thought of before the India vs Australia 2017, 2nd T20I.
However, the home crowd of almost 39,000 people didn’t get the pomp that was promised as the hosts ended up giving their worst performance of Australia’s tour of India. All the four top-order batsmen, Rohit Sharma (8), Shikhar Dhawan (2), Virat Kohli (0) and Manish Pandey (6), ended up giving away their wickets to the baffling swing of Jason Behrendorff as the Aussie registered a tally of 4-21-4.
With the scoreboard reflecting 27/4 in the fifth over, it all came down to the trio of Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya (25) to take India’s innings to a respectable total but all they could manage was take the score past the 100-mark.
Adam Zampa (4-0-19-2) was the one of tormented the middle order after Behrendorff left the Indian side shattered and he ended up becoming the first bowler in T20 history to stump MS Dhoni (13), followed by a classic leg-before-wicket for Kedar Jadhav (27) with a brilliant googly.
By the end of first innings, India managed a 118-run total and gave Australia a target which, in every word, was almost impossible to defend.
Although Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah, who took advantage of the moisture on the surface and movement in the air, gave India two early breakthroughs in form of David Warner (2) and Aaron Finch (8), it was the 109-run 3rd wicket partnership between Moises Henriques (62) and Travis Head (48) that gave Australia a chance to battle for the India vs Australia 2017 T20I series title.
An 8-wicket win with 27 balls still to spare will definitely give Australia the needed boost of confidence after their humiliating 4-1 defeat in the ODIs, and this will surely make the final match at Hyderabad, an interesting series decider.
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