India vs Aus: The Indian team took a 2-1 lead in the series by defeating Australia by 48 runs in the fourth T20 match played in Queensland. In response to the target of 168 runs given by the Indian team, Australia was reduced to 119 runs in 18.2 overs.
Apart from captain Mitchell Marsh 30 and Matt Short 25, who came to open the innings for Australia, all the batsmen flopped. The last five batsmen could not even reach double figures. Indian spin bowlers played an important role in bowling out Australia for 119 runs. Washington Sundar took 3 wickets for 3 runs in 1.2 overs. Axar Patel took 2 wickets while Varun Chakraborty took 1 wicket. Shivam Dubey also took 2 wickets. Fast bowlers Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah got 1-1 wicket.
Australia won the toss and decided to bowl. Coming to bat first, Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma gave a good start to the Indian team and added 56 runs for the first wicket. Abhishek was out as the first wicket after scoring 28 runs on 21 balls. After this, wickets kept falling at regular intervals. The result was that the team could score only 167 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Shubhman Gill was the best scorer by scoring 46 runs on 39 balls. Shivam Dubey scored 22 runs, captain Suryakumar Yadav scored 20 runs and Akshar Patel scored 21 not out.
For Australia, Nathan Ellis took 3 wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs. Adam Zampa was expensive. He took 3 wickets but gave away 45 runs in 4 overs. Xavier Bartlett and Marx Stoinis got 1-1 wicket. The Indian team is ahead 2-1 in the five-match T20 series. The first match of the series was canceled due to rain. The fifth and last match of the series will be played on Saturday.
