Australia’s grizzly-haired veterans introduced all their big-game expertise to the fore, limiting a hitherto rollicking India to 240 all out within the World Cup remaining on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Sunday. Their dominance over the hosts had a number of focal factors to it, whereas India made a few moments of their very own via fifties by Virat Kohli and KL Rahul. Here’s a better take a look at essential moments within the match.

Rohit lives by sword

From the start of the event, Rohit batted solely in a single gear, evidenced by his strike-rate of 126. On this present day, the Mumbaikar made runs at 151. His technique was clear, blunt the Aussie new ball bowlers and the skipper blasted two sixes off pacer Josh Hazlewood to offer early momentum to his aspect.

But Rohit’s innings didn’t bloom into one thing larger. His effort to hoist off-spinner Glenn Maxwell over the ring ended when Travis Head took a beautiful running-diving catch in direction of sweeper cowl. Australia snapped India’s march too for that second.

Australia’s fielding

The Antipodeans have at all times been an excellent fielding aspect, they usually raised the bar one notch up within the summit conflict. Travis Head took that sensible operating catch to dismiss Rohit Sharma and David Warner made multiple diving saves close to the ropes to save lots of the boundaries, leaving Indian batters a bit annoyed.

It additionally pressured them to alter their gung-ho method that they adopted up to now within the event. Cummins additionally made some actually good discipline placements.

When Kohli and Rahul had been batting, the Aussies skipper opened the quilt area with a sweeper in place and closed ranks across the square-leg and mid-on areas. It was a transparent ploy to power the Indian batters to take extra dangers to make fast runs, or cope with these workman-like singles to covers and leg-side.

Edgy Gill and Shreyas

This was the primary 50-over World Cup remaining for Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer, they usually seemed a bit nervous. Gill was like a cat on a scorching tin roof, and hardly provided a settled second. His harrowing time at crease ended when a half-hearted pull off left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc discovered Adam Zampa on the fringe of the circle.

Shreyas got here to this match using on back-to-back tons of in opposition to Netherlands and New Zealand. But this midday, his innings lasted simply three balls. Cummins caught him rooted contained in the crease with a supply that jagged again simply sufficient at a good clip.

Kohli and Rahul stand tall

They joined forces when India had been shaking at 81 for 3, however Kohli and Rahul sussed up the situations and pitch very nicely, knuckled right down to make steadying 67 runs for the fourth wicket. It was extra industrious than eye-popping, however that was what India wanted at that second.

In reality, all the alliance had only one boundary in it, however India recovered to a superb prolong via them till Kohli (54) chopped one from Pat Cummins onto his stumps.

However, Rahul (66) continued to carry the innings along with a composed innings.

Captain Cummins and his bowlers

Through the entire of this showpiece Pat Cummins the bowler was conspicuous by his absence. Coming into this match, the pacer’s run-rate was above six and has taken 13 wickets from 10 matches. But he would have appreciated to make an even bigger impression, and the New South Welshman selected the best event to make his mark.

He obtained the massive wickets of in-form Kohli and Shreyas to maintain India in examine, additionally bowled an financial spell. Pacers Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood too helped him taking 5 wickets amongst them on a pitch that had little or no for his or her kind of bowlers, utilizing umpteen variations. The spinners — Adam Zampa, Glenn Maxwell and Travis Head — too chipped in choking run-flow within the center interval. They hardly allowed Indians to get the boundaries, an important a part of India’s batting supremacy within the event up to now.

There had been two intervals of extended boundary drought in hosts’ innings, the Rahul-Kohli stand the place India managed a lone 4, and within the interval between forty first and fiftieth overs, a part when India managed simply two fours via Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.

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