Mohammed Shami made a surprise access and collected three wickets in the very last over as India beat protecting champions Australia via six runs of their first warm-up fit of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup at The Gabba on Monday. After fifties from KL Rahul (fifty seven) and Suryakumar Yadav (50) helped India submit a tough 186/7 in their 20 overs, Australia wanted 16 runs off the remaining overs to successfully chase down the entire.
But Harshal Patel conceded only five runs in a top notch nineteenth over and picked up the wicket of captain Aaron Finch, who top-scored with a fifty four-ball seventy six, aside from a tremendous run-out of Tim David via Virat Kohli's direct hit.
Shami turned into then a surprise select to bowl the very last over after having now not bowled within the entire in shape and made his mark by using having Pat Cummins caught at long-on, way to an exceptional one-passed catch via Kohli at lengthy-on. Shami then nailed his final two yorkers proper and knocked over Josh Inglis and Kane Richardson to seal a slender win for India in a very last over in which four wickets fell, which include that of Ashton Agar.
The chase of 187 for Australia started out properly as Mitchell Marsh were given a few batting exercise with an 18-ball 35, earlier than falling inside the final over of electricity-play, at the same time as Finch were given going from the other quit too. India commenced with 5 bowlers in 5 overs however have been hammered for runs with the aid of Marsh and Finch.
After Marsh fell to Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Steve Smith became subsequent to fall, wiped clean up by using leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Glenn Maxwell smacked Chahal for 4 fours in his sixteen-ball 23, but nicked behind off Bhuvneshwar just because it felt he might ultimate long on the crease.
Though Marcus Stoinis fell affordably to Arshdeep Singh, Finch and David had stored Australia in the fit until they misplaced their remaining six wickets for nine runs in the last overs, something with a purpose to improve India's self belief in dying over bowling beforehand of the primary match.
Brief scores: India 186/7 in 20 overs (KL Rahul 57, Suryakumar Yadav 50; Kane Richardson four/30) beat Australia a hundred and eighty all out in 20 overs (Aaron Finch seventy six, Mitchell Marsh 35; Mohammed Shami 3/4, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2/20) through six runs.
