Fifties from Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, and Ishan Kishan laid the platform before Rinku Singh’s sensational unbeaten 31 off nine balls powered India to 235 for four before an eventual 44-run win.
Half- centuries from the Indian top- order led by Yashasvi Jaiswal (53, 25b, 9×4, 2×6), followed by a brilliant spell from the baits, helped the Men in Blue beat Australia by 44 runs in the alternate T20I match and take a 2- 0 lead at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad (58), and Ishan Kishan (52) laid the platform before Rinku Singh’s sensational unbeaten 31 off nine balls powered India to 235 for four after being asked to club first.
Despite heavy dew, leggie Ravi Bishnoi (3 for 32) and left- arm incentive Axar Patel (1 for 25) applied the squeeze, taking three lattices in the Power Play.
Bishnoi reckoned for Matthew Short and Josh Inglis in his first two overs, while Axar Patel got the better of Glenn Maxwell, reducing the Aussies to 53 for three by the sixth over.
Marcus Stonis (45) and Tim David (37) gave India a dread by going after bellwethers Arshdeep Singh and Mukesh Kumar during their 81- run cooperation off 38 balls for the fifth gate.
Stoinis started by hitting Bishnoi for two sixes down the ground and also smashed Arshdeep each over the demesne, while David despoiled 18 off Mukesh. But Bishnoi returned explosively to remove David, caught in the deep. In the coming over, Mukesh had Stoinis caught at long- on to effectively seal the game for the home platoon.
Before, Jaiswal unleashed his willow like a brand, cutting the bellwethers with perfection through the off- side, going after Sean Abbott. The bowler was shamefaced of bowling short, and the left- hander cut the first three deliveries for boundaries through the off- side and also pulled the coming two over the leg- side for sixes to pocket 24 runs in the fourth over.
Jaiswal allocate out analogous treatment to Nathan Ellis, hitting a chapeau- trick of boundaries in the sixth over to reach his half- century off just 24 balls as India got 77 in the Power Play.
Australia pulled effects back in the middle- phase, transferring in a many quiet overs as Gaikwad (58, 43b, 3×4, 2×6) and Ishan Kishan (52, 32b, 3×4, 4×6) plodded with timing against Tanveer Sangha and Adam Zampa, scoring only one boundary in the five overs after the Power Play.
Kishan eventually cut loose against Maxwell, heaving the off- incentive down the ground for a six, followed by a boundary. The 25- time-old also swept Sangha for two sixes over the leg- side, as he did in the first match, to reach his alternate half- century of the series in style.
Rinku continued to furbish his character as a finisher when he went after Abbott. He hit the leader for 24 runs in the 19th over with three boundaries and two sixes to take the host past 200, which proved further than enough. Know More Latest Cricket News…
