Australian started well in the first ODI Match but bundled out for 188. Mohammad Shami picked three wickets.
 |
| Mitchell Marsh |
Australia didn’t started well and there openers Travis Head was bowled on the bowling of Mohammad Siraj. He tried to play a cover drive but edged it and was bowled.
Steve Smith come at the fall of 1st wicket. Mitchell Marsh and Steve Smith stitched a fifty run partnership and were looking good. Mitchell Marsh was hitting the ball very well.
Steve Smith hit couple of fours on the point region. He was out on the bowling of Hardik Pandya as he chased a wide ball and he was taken behind the wickets by Kl Rahul.
Hardik Pandya showed great seam bowling
As the bowl didn’t do much for the bowlers early on but Hardik Pandya showed great seam position and he was swinging the ball both ways. He showed great discipline with line and length and troubled Australian batsman on regular occasion.
Meanwhile Mitchell Marsh kept on hitting sixes at the regular intervals and he was well supported by marnus Labuschagne. Australian were going great at one stage and they were 129-2 in 19th over.
Mitchell tried to hit jadeja bowl for a six but was caught at short third man. He scored 81 runs and hit 5 sixes. Soon Labuschagne fell of the bowling of kuldeep Yadav thanks to diving catch of Ravindra jadeja.
Australians tried to stitch up a partnership and were 169-4 at one stage but Mohammad Shami had some other plans. He came for the second spell and took 3 wickets in a quick succession. Australian were bundled out for 188. Thanks to their disastrous collapse of the recent times.
In trying to up the scoring rate, Australians lost there way and went terribly wrong in putting a total on the board. At one stage they were looking good to score 300 plus score but Indian Bowler didn’t allow them to settle one Mitchell Marsh got out.
