Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
MS Wade
72(43) 5x4 - 3x6
Control %77%
- Productive Shot
- cut shot on back foot
- 16 runs
- 1x4 - 0x6
01/02Result
1st T20I (N), India tour of Australia at Sydney, Feb 1 2012
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![Australia]( "Australia")
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![India]( "India")
140/6 (20 ov)
Player of the Match
01/02Result
1st T20I (N), India tour of Australia at Sydney, Feb 1 2012
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![Australia]( "Australia")
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![India]( "India")
140/6 (20 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Match Details
Series
Toss
India , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Australia led the 2-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.35 start, First Session 19.35-20.55, Interval 20.55-21.15, Second Session 21.15-22.35
Match days
1 February 2012 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
AUSTRALIA 171/4 (20 OVERS)
- David Hussey42 (30)
- Matthew Wade72 (43)
- Suresh Raina1/22 (3)
- Rahul Sharma1/27 (3.4)
Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Kanishkaa Balachandran
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
2
Doherty to Dhoni, 2 runs, low full toss outside the off stump and he scoops it to wide long-off
19.5
1
Doherty to Ashwin, 1 run, on the blockhole and he squirts it out to mid-on
19.4
0
Doherty to Ashwin, no run, tries to paddle it to fine leg and misses
19.3
0
Doherty to Ashwin, no run, squeezes out a yorker back to the bowler
19.2
1
Doherty to Dhoni, 1 run, low full toss and he forces it to long-off
19.1
1
Doherty to Ashwin, 1 run, makes room and he pushes it to long-on
India tour of Australia 2011-12 News
Seventy-eight days later
From Brisbane to Sydney and back again. Must be the CB Series then
Ian v Greg at the Chappell backyard
The Chappell brothers' has to be the ideal childhood, one every lover of cricket would commit heinous crimes to enjoy
'Indians weren't really interested in Test cricket' - Greg Chappell
Greg Chappell, India's former coach, has said that India "weren't really in Test cricket" on their tour to Australia, and that "Test cricket is pretty tough for them"
Time for Tendulkar to introspect
Ian Chappell, writing in Mid-Day , says as India's tour of Australia wore on, Tendulkar's form deteriorated; the Australian bowlers eventually got inside his mind and along with thoughts of his century this was too much for him to process.
Player-media rift not good for Indian cricket
Boria Majumdar, writing in the Times of India , says the time has come for the BCCI to have a proper media policy and appoint a professional media manager following differences emerging between the press and the players during the Australian tour.
