India faced Australia on Monday in their first warm up match of the T20 World Cup 2022. Team India is currently the number one team in the world in T20. At the same time, Australia is the defending champion. Australia won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, India scored 186 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 20 overs. In reply, the Australian team was reduced to 180 runs in 20 overs. India won the match by six runs.
India defeated Australia by six runs in the T20 World Cup practice match. Batting first, India scored 186 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 20 overs. KL Rahul scored 57 runs in 33 balls and Suryakumar Yadav scored 50 runs in 33 balls. In reply, the Australian team was all out for 180 runs in 20 overs in exchange for India’s excellent bowling and fielding in the death overs.
Australia needed 43 runs in the last five overs. They had eight wickets left. Finch and Maxwell were batting well. After this Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave only four runs and took one wicket in the 16th over. Ashwin gave away 10 runs in the 17th over. Arshdeep came to bowl in the 18th over and conceded 13 runs. The 19th has been a problem for Team India for some time now.
However, in this match Harshal Patel brought the 19th over and gave only five runs. Two wickets also fell in this over. Harshal first clean bowled Finch. Then in this over, Tim David was run out on Virat Kohli’s direct hit.
Sensational Shami comeback
However, the moment of the match belonged to Shami’s return in the final over. Mohammed Shami came to bowl for the first time in the 20th over. He had to save 11 runs. Pat Cummins and Josh Inglis were at the crease. Shami conceded 4 runs in the first two balls. After this, all remaining deliveries produced a wicket.
In this way, four wickets fell on Shami’s last four balls. Shami took three of these wickets and one run out. Shami conceded just four runs in the last over and India won the match by six runs. Captain Aaron Finch scored the highest 76 runs for Australia. Apart from this, Mitchell Marsh scored 35 runs.
At the same time, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took two wickets for 20 runs in three overs. Arshdeep Singh conceded 34 runs in three overs and got one wicket. Harshal Patel gave 30 runs in three overs and took one wicket. Chahal took one wicket for 28 runs in three overs. Now the Indian team will take on the New Zealand team in the second practice match on 19 October.