IND Vs AUS: The three-match fifty overs format series has been won by India after their magnificent performance in the second one-day international match which was played at Holkar Stadium in Indore yesterday.
The men in the blue side had also won the first game of this ODI series at Mohali on Friday.
Shubman Gill was the star for India with the bat in both the ODI matches played so far. Gill scored an excellent half-century in the opening game of this series and followed it up with a brilliant century at Indore.
The Prince smashed 104 runs in the second one-day international match.
Shreyas Iyer who failed in the first outing in Mohali came out to bat with a positive intent. He started the innings carefully and then he exploded in an amazing fashion.
Iyer batted at number three position in both the matches till now. He smashed his third ODI ton yesterday and scored 105 runs from just 90 balls. Shreyas was awarded as the player of the match as well.
India required a brilliant finishing kick towards the end and that was provided by Suryakumar Yadav. He scored his first fifty of the one-day international format. SKY scored an unbeaten 72 runs.
KL Rahul also scored a half-century which propelled India to pile up 399 runs on the board in their fifty overs quota.
Prasidh Krishna was the one who replaced Jasprit Bumrah in this game. Krishna picked up two wickets with the new ball and both the scalps came in back-to-back deliveries which never allowed the Aussies to be in the game.
The rains had stopped the game as well and the target of 399 runs was revised to 317 runs.
But still, the Aussies didn’t manage to score anything near that score. They were bundled out for 217 runs in the end. The spin bowlers were the pick of the bowlers in this game.
The spin twins Jadeja and Ashwin did a wonderful job as this complete team effort allowed India to win this match by 99 runs due to the DLS method. India has won the series as well after yesterday’s performance.
Ravichandran Ashwin has made a decent comeback in the one-day international squad of the men in the blue side.
Ash is a replacement for injured Axar Patel and the team even has Washington Sundar in their ODI squad for this series against Australia which is also the last one before the ODI World Cup 2023 starts in a few days' time.
The seasoned campaigner Ashwin got three wickets and he bowled seven overs in the second game of the ODI series. By doing so, Ash also has the most wickets against The Aussies in the international cricket arena and that too across the three formats of this game. He also broke the record of a legendary Indian spin bowler.
Anil Kumble, the former captain and the head coach held the record of having the most wickets against Australia in international cricket before Ashwin broke it yesterday.
Kumble took 142 wickets against the Aussies in his career. But Ash has gone past Jumbo in this regard after yesterday’s match in Indore.
Ash has now 144 Australian wickets to his name and there are still two matches to go at least. One game will be in the 3rd and the final one-day international match of this current series and IND Vs AUS will play their first match at Chennai in the ODI World Cup 2023 as well.
Ashwin picked up the wickets of Marnus Labuschagne, David Warner and Josh Inglis in the game played on Sunday, 24th September 2023 in Indore.
