Player of the Match
Player of the Match

END OF OVER:
20 | 6 Runs | IND: 140/6 (32 runs required, RR: 7.00)

  • MS Dhoni48 (43b)
  • Ravichandran Ashwin15 (16b)
  • Xavier Doherty4-0-23-0
  • Brett Lee4-0-36-1

Time for the presentation. Wade if the Man of the Match: "Mickey Arthur told me yesterday that I would be opening. No point competing with Warner, he's the best hitter in the game. The spinners really took the game away from India."

Dhoni: "There is a tomorrow. Wade batted really well. We could not capitalise. We thought it would rain in the second innings in Melbourne."

Bailey: "I didn't know you get a trophy after every game. Our fielding and bowling was outstanding. There's a great feeling around Australian cricket at the moment."

The teams head to Melbourne for the second and final T20, on Friday. We'll see you then. Thanks for your company. Cheers!

End of match: So Australia, under their new captain, can celebrate this win with that bottle of Irish cream. Same old story for India. Positives? They didn't get bowled out for a change. This was their lowest margin of defeat.

Jokes aside, Australia were relentless in the field. They took their catches and barely let anything slip between them. Dhoni looked dangerous with some of those shots he played down the ground but he needed to dent Australia's psyche with successive boundaries, just to make things interesting.

The presentation should happen any time soon. Matthew Wade's Australia's biggest positive from this game.

19.6
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Doherty to Dhoni, 2 runs, low full toss outside the off stump and he scoops it to wide long-off

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India 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st6G GambhirV Sehwag
2nd41G GambhirV Kohli
3rd6SK RainaV Kohli
4th0SK RainaRG Sharma
5th19MS DhoniSK Raina
6th9MS DhoniRA Jadeja
7th59MS DhoniR Ashwin