India has given Australia a target of just 126 runs to win in the second T20 match being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Team India could face only 18.4 overs in this match. After losing the toss in the match, the Indian team came to bat and got a shock in the third over. Shubhman Gill returned to the pavilion after scoring just 5 runs. Till that time only 20 runs were added to India’s account. In the next over, India got another blow in the form of Sanju Samson (2).
Abhishek Sharma, who came in as an opening batsman, remained at one end, but no batsman was able to support him at the other end. Team India also lost the wickets of captain Suryakumar Yadav (1) and Tilak Verma (0) in the fifth over.
The Indian team had lost 5 wickets by the score of 49. From here Abhishek Sharma along with Harshit Rana tried to handle the team by adding 56 runs in 47 balls.
Harshit was out after scoring 35 runs in 33 balls. His innings included 1 six and 3 fours. At the same time, Abhishek Sharma played an inning of 68 runs in 37 balls with 2 sixes and 8 fours. Apart from these, no other batsman could even touch double figures.
Mitchell Marsh has won the toss for the 19th time as T20 captain. The interesting thing is that every time he has preferred bowling first. If he scores 4 runs in this match, he will touch the figure of 2 thousand runs in T20 International cricket.
The team that wins this match will take the lead in the five-match series. The first match of the series was inconclusive due to rain. If we look at the T20 statistics between India and Australia, in the last 33 matches, India won 20 matches, while it had to face defeat in 11 matches. The remaining 2 matches remained inconclusive.
With IANS inputs
