For India, pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant are not playing this game
For India, pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant are not playing this game
Hardik Pandya (71 not out) and K.L. Rahul (55) scored scintillating half-centuries to help India post 208 for six against Australia in the series opening first T20I in Mohali on September 20.
Invited to bat, Rahul (55 off 35 balls) scored his second consecutive fifty which included four boundaries and three maximums.
The in-form Pandya, on the other hand, pummelled the visiting bowlers into submission with his unbeaten 30-ball 71.
The all-rounder smashed the ball seven times to the fence and five times over it to take India over the 200-run mark.
Suryakumar also pitched in with a valuable 25-ball 46.
For Australia, medium pacer Nathan Ellis 3/30 was the pick of the bowlers.
Brief Scores: India 208/6 in 20 overs (Hardik Pandya 71 not out, KL Rahul 55; Nathan Elis 3/30, Josh Hazlewood 2/39) vs Australia.
Teams: India: Rohit Sharma (C), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Australia: Aaron Finch (C), Cameron Green, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis, Tim David, Matthew Wade (wk), Pat Cummins, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.
