Australia quick bowler Josh Hazlewood on Sunday absolved Mitchell Marsh of blame for committing considered one of cricket’s greatest sins — dropping a catch that will have seen the again of India famous person Virat Kohli. Chasing simply 200 to win their high-profile World Cup conflict, India seemed like slipping to 20-4 when Kohli top-edged a pull to sq. leg the place Marsh was ready to gobble up the catch. However, presumably distracted by wicketkeeper Alex Carey additionally speeding to the hazard space, Marsh let the ball slip to the bottom.

At the time, Kohil had made simply 12 runs. He went on to hit his 67th ODI half-century earlier than being lastly dismissed for 85, efficiently caught by Marnus Labuschagne off Hazlewood.

With Okay.L. Rahul (97), he placed on a match-winning 165 for the fourth wicket.

“I didn’t think Carey could get there. I think it was Mitch’s catch and probably just Carey got quite close in the end so it might have just put Mitch off,” stated Hazlewood who took three of the 4 Indian wickets to fall on Sunday.

“Yeah, he dropped a catch, it’s one of those things that happens and everyone’s training hard and working hard off the field to hang on to them. So, yeah, we’ll continue on.”

Five-time winners Australia went all the way down to the hosts by six wickets after being bundled out for 199 on a spin-friendly pitch.

Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja led the Indian spin cost with figures of 3-28 together with the prized scalp of Steve Smith for 46 with a supply that pitched and turned away from the right-hander.

Hazlewood’s wickets included India captain Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer, each with out scoring, which plunged India into bother at three down for 2 runs.

However, the quick bowler stated the crew won’t learn an excessive amount of into the defeat.

“We might come up against these conditions again at other grounds throughout the next eight games,” he stated.

“You know we might have to reassess and say yeah 260 is a good score rather than 300-plus to what we’ve seen on a few other grounds.”

Australia elected to bat first however misplaced Marsh for a duck earlier than David Warner (41) and Smith rebuilt the innings.

Kuldeep Yadav broke the stand with Warner’s wicket and Australia collapsed from 110-2 to 140-7 and have been lastly bowled out in 49.3 overs.

Hazlewood stated the crew will take classes from the loss.

“Batting in that first innings, that was probably as extreme as the conditions are going to get,” he stated.

“I think, in terms of spin and playing spin throughout the middle and trying to find ways to score, we have to keep that run rate ticking over without losing wickets.

“Hopefully it will get a bit bit simpler from right here on in and so they’ll provide you with some new plans and go from there.”

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