India made choice to bowl after winning the toss
The Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam is the site of the opening game of the five-match Twenty20 Twenty Twenty series between Australia and India. India made the choice to bowl after winning the toss. Australia scored 203 runs for 3 wickets in 19 overs while batting first. Tim David and Marcus Stoinis are at the crease.
Josh English scored 110 runs before being out. Prasidh Krishna discovered him being held captive by Yashasvi Jaiswal. Josh Inglis reached his 100th career century. Steve Smith scored a personal-best 52 before being run out. After 13 runs, Matthew Short was out. It was Ravi Bishnoi who bowled him. He failed to capture Steve Smith in the same over.
The domination of Australia in the middle overs. Australia swiftly reached the mid-overs mark with runs. Josh Inglis was helped by Steve Smith, who scored runs at a rate of eight or higher in each over. In the fifteenth over, English scored 21 runs against Ravi Bishnoi. Smith and English combined for 130 runs in 66 balls after this.
The 16th over ended with Steve Smith being run out. Australia lost one wicket and then added 101 runs in the middle overs. In just 29 balls, Jose Inglis reached his half-century mark. It was his first time over the 50-mark in T-20. Steve Smith got his fifth half-century in his T-20 career at the same moment.
Jos Inglis and Steve Smith put together 130 runs in 66 balls together. English scored 94 runs and Smith scored 34 in this. In his 4 overs allotted, Ravi Bishnoi scored 54 runs at an economy of 13.50. When it came to getting the most runs in T20, he turned out to be the fifth most costly Indian spinner.
After opting to bat first, the Australian squad had a mediocre start. In 6 powerplay overs, the side scored 40 runs for one wicket. The Australian side scored runs at a 6.66 run rate during the powerplay. The team’s score after the sixth over was 40/1. Steve Smith and Matthew Short, who batted first, scored at a run rate of about six, but Ravi Bishnoi bowled them on the fourth delivery of the fifth over.
Short scored 13 runs before being out. The Australian team’s playing eleven included the captain and wicketkeeper Matthew Wade, along with Steve Smith, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardy, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Shaun Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Jason Behrendorff, and Tanvir Sangha.
The players for India are Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Mukesh Kumar, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, and Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper). India might win for the third time in a row. All of the teams are now concentrating on T20 in anticipation of the T20 World Cup, which will take place next year.
India will defeat Australia in T20 cricket for the third time in a row if they win today’s match. It will be the home side’s third straight series victory over the Kangaroo squad if they prevail. The previous two series, in 2020 and 2022, were won by India. There have been ten T-20 series played thus far between Australia and India.
Australia won two of these and India won five. This year, Surya has scored the most runs. Many players on Team India were rested following the ODI World Cup. In this series, the team will be captained by Suryakumar Yadav. Surya leads the squad in T-20 format scoring this year. In 11 games, he has 433 runs scored.
Arshdeep Singh leads the team in wicket-taking. This year, he has claimed 20 wickets. On the other hand, this year’s T-20 matches saw no participation from Indian players such as Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. Shaun Abbott leads the Kangaroo team in wickets taken this season. Conversely, Australian players who were included in multiple World Cup teams have been given time off. Matthew Wade has taken on the role of team captain.
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