IND vs AUS 1st T20I: India fight back; Suryakumar leading from the front; India win by 2 wickets

Visakhapatnam: The Indian youth team asked Australia to compensate for the defeat in the World Cup final. Chasing a huge target, India won by 2 wickets. Captain Suryakumar Yadav (80 off 42 balls) and Ishan Kishan (58 off 39 balls) scored a half-century for India. Rinku Singh’s innings (22 off 14 balls), who played carefully in the last overs, was also decisive.

India set out with a target of 209 runs and lost Rituraj Gaikwad in the first over. He was run out before even facing a single ball. Ishaan Kishan and Yaswasi Jaiswal, who came next, focused on raising the run rate. Yaswasi Jaiswal was dismissed after scoring 21 runs off 8 balls (2 fours and 2 sixes). Captain Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan, who came after, hit the bowlers in numbers. Ishan Kishan scored a half-century with 5 sixes and 2 fours. Suryakumar Yadav hit 4 sixes and 9 fours. Despite losing wickets at the last minute, Rinkusingh hit a six off the last ball to lead India to victory. But being a Nobel, only one run counts.

After losing the toss, Australia went into bat and scored 208 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. The performance of Josh Inglis, who scored a century in 47 balls, brought the Aussies to a huge score. Opener Steve Smith scored a half-century. Inglis also holds the record for the fastest century by an Aussie player in Twenty20 Internationals. Inglis was dismissed for 110 runs off 50 balls. This is also England’s first century in international cricket.

The backbone of the Aussie innings was the brilliant century partnership between Josh Inglis and Steve Smith for the second wicket. The Aussies added 130 runs to the scoreboard in just 67 balls.

Inglis scored 110 runs off 50 balls with 11 fours and 8 sixes. Smith scored 52 runs off 41 balls with eight fours and was run out. Opener Mathew Short scored 13 runs off 11 balls with three fours. Tim David remained unbeaten on 19 runs off 13 balls with two fours and a six and Marcus Stoinis on seven runs off six balls.

In bowling, Mukesh Kumar gave an excellent performance. Only 29 runs were conceded in four overs. Ravi Bishnoi took one wicket but conceded 54 runs in four overs. Pishth Krishna took one wicket and conceded 50 runs in four overs. Akshar Patel conceded only 32 runs in 4 overs but did not get a wicket. Arshdeep Singh conceded 41 runs in four overs.