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  No whitewash in the end, but good game of cricket today. The momentum swung both sides but ultimately went towards the Aussies. The match began with India winning the toss again and opting to bowl first. The Men in blue came unchanged as expected while Finch was back as captain for Australia replacing Stoinis who was unfit. Matthew Wade opened with Finch and gave an amazing start to Australia just like he did in the second T20. Finch who was making a comeback got out early to Sundar while trying to hit him big. After that Smith and Wade batted together and made a partnership of 65 runs, Wade was in full aggressive mode and was batting ruthlessly, he spared no one, while Smith was playing run a ball kind of innings. Sundar got the better of him in the 10th over. In came Maxwell who got a lifeline earlier in the innings when he got caught out to Chahal in the 13th over but it was called a no ball as Chahal had overstepped. After that he never turned back. Wade and Maxi created an e...

  A Dead rubber at Sydney tomorrow as India have already clinched the T20I series and have taken an unassailable lead of 2-0. But the visitors will come in full force as they have a chance to repeat history and whitewash Australia on their own soil, just what they did in 2016. While Australia will try to rectify their mistakes and play for their pride. Indian team is likely to remain unchanged after a brilliant performance in the second T20. They have momentum on their side and all the batsmen are looking in great form. However, Samson would want to score a big knock as his tendency to throw his wicket after a getting a good start is very much prevalent in the first two matches. Otherwise there are no worries in the batting department. Coming to India's bowling, the bowlers had a bad day in the previous match and went for a lot of runs. Sundar was destroyed by Wade in the powerplay which is known as his strength. Chahar was very costly, and so was Chahal. The lone standout per...

  Kung Fu Pandya wins it again for India, and the Sydney jinx for visitors is broken. The T20 series is sealed by Kohli and co. and that too in style. The match began with India winning the toss and electing to bowl first, Chahal, Iyer and Thakur came in place of Jadeja, Manish and Shami while the Australian captain Finch was out of the match due to an injury and Matthew Wade led the side in his absence, Danial Sams made debut for Australia and replaced Mitchell Starc. Stoinis came back after being injured in place of Josh Hazelwood. Matthew Wade opened the innings and demolished the new ball bowlers of India, be it Chahar or Sundar.  He gave a fiery start to Australia and completed his half century in just 25 balls with a strike rate of 200. His partner Darcy Short disappointed and got out early courtesy Natarajan. Comedy of error type moment came in the 8th over when Kohli dropped the catch of Matthew Wade but on the same delivery he got run out due to a miscommunicatio...

  The rally moves to Sydney now after an Indian victory in the capital city Canberra. The momentum has completely shifted in the Indian camp, in the last two matches. Now suddenly Indian team is looking favourites to win the T20 series, especially after the absence of Warner at the top for Australia. The star of the previous match Jadeja is ruled out of the remaining T20 matches due to hamstring issues. Shardul is called in as his replacement. Indian team would however bring an unchanged xi tomorrow except Chahal in place of Jadeja as the team looks settled and there is no reason to tinker with anything. Samson and Pandey will get another opportunity to prove themselves in the middle order especially Pandey who has taken the slot of Iyer. Only concern is that after the exit of Jadeja, the batting looks a little weak and fragile and there would be no cushion in the lower order except Pandya, so whole pressure will be on the Indian top order batsmen to make runs and register a big to...

  Canberra is proving to be lucky for the visitors. Amazing win for India in the start of the series, they are establishing themselves as a complete T20 side. It all began with Finch winning the toss and opting to bowl first. Indian team brought in Sundar, Samson, Pandey and Deepak in place of Kuldeep, Gill, Thakur and Bumrah respectively. While Australia brought in Darcy Short and leggie Mitchell Swepson in place of Warner and Carey. Rahul and Dhawan opened the innings for India. The opening partnership was short lived as Dhawan got bowled on a yorker by Starc in the 3rd over. Rahul played with a positive intent and made full use of the powerplay and it looked like he continued from where he left in the IPL. He scored a half century while on the other end wickets kept falling, first Kohli, then Samson and then Manish. Samson somewhat impressed with a tiny knock of 23 runs comprising of one boundary and one six. Zampa and Swepson, the two leg spinners hunted in a pair and bowled ni...

  So After a one sided ODI series, we will move forward to the shortest and most uncertain format of the game...the T20's. Australia won the ODI's and will be high on spirits to take on India at Canberra today. While India who resisted a whitewash and won the 3rd ODI will carry a momentum with them, coming in this match. Players from both the teams participated in the recently concluded IPL 2020 and will be well versed with this format. Last time when both the teams played a T20 series against each other in Australia, the equation was 1-1.Talking about India, there are 2 inclusions to the squad of ODI that will play in the T20's, Sundar and D Chahar comes in place of Gill and Kuldeep. I want to clarify a mistake I did in my preview video which I posted the previous day, I forgot about KL Rahul as an opening option and counted only Agarwal and Samson as replacements of Rohit. Rahul walks straight into the playing xi as an opener after an outstanding IPL 2020. He will open al...