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So India get their 350 total in the end. They might not have expected to get there nine down, but it doesn’t matter. Perhaps Australia can take some heart that they could have been chasing 400 at one stage, but in the end the wickets they’ve taken and a number of tidy overs haven’t made a huge amount of difference. It will still take one hell of a chase.
Rohit and Dhawan did over half the work, putting on 193 for the opening stand just as Finch and Khawaja did for Australia in the previous match. Rohit was annoyed to be out for 95, while Dhawan went on to 143. No one else struck the ball quite as cleanly, and Kohli had a rare failure, but Rishabh Pant’s 36 off 24 gave the innings a late boost, while Shankar’s 26 off 16 rounded it off. Bumrah gleefully placed the single cherry atop the cake.
50th over: India 358-9 (Kuldeep 1, Bumrah 6) Who would have thought, when that opening partnership was flying, that India would get down to their No11? But it’s just as well they have, because Jasprit Bumrah has smashed Cummins down the ground for six! What a moment! Clears his leg, goes through the line, and while I think he was aiming a bit more long-off it gets good enough contact to clear long-on!
People, this is Jasprit Bumrah. Before today he had once made 10 not out in an ODI innings, and aside from that had made one run from his other seven innings. He’d been out five times for that one run. And now, today, he has come out and bashed his first ball for six, finishing not out with a strike rate of 600. That is a wonder.
Written by Geoff Lemon (now) and Adam Collins (later)
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2019/mar/10/india-v-australia-fourth-one-day-international-live under the title “India set Australia 359 to win fourth one-day international – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
