T20 & ODI tour of India.

[Donny]

C-N bowls Karthik.

5/94.

[K]

India 7/126 (20).

Oz 2/5.

2 wickets in 2 balls. Finch a duck. Again. He is becoming a huge liability.

[K]

Oz 2/78 (12).

Maxwell nears 50 & restores some calm to the run chase.

Are the selectors watching & taking note??

[K]

Maxwell 50* (40), 5 4s, 2 6s...

but falls shortly after for 56 (43).

[K]

There'll probably be debate after the match about Dhoni's batting.

Is Coulter-Nile really a better batter than Cummins? (I doubt it.) He's listed to come in ahead of Cummins.

[K]

Another run out. This is farcical. Short goes.

[K]

Turner bowled for a duck.
Do our guys have any clue against spin?

It's up to Handscomb now to keep the simple task simple.
He'd want to, given what he contributed to the domestic final collapse.

[K]

16 runs needed from 2 overs. Bumrah to bowl.

Handscomb out. They are throwing the game away.
Handscomb seems clueless.

14 runs needed from 7 balls.

And C-N bowled next ball.
They have lost 5/24.

[K]

1 4 2 1 4 ?

What will the final ball bring?

2!

7/127.

Good job by Cummins & Richardson, who scored exactly half of the final-over runs each.

[ronrat]

never been happy with Handscomb in this format. Patty should have been batting earlier as well. Good piece of bowling by the Aussies at the end as well to restrict them. The Indians are going crook at Dhoni on cricinfo.

[K]

In other IT20s:

Rashid Khan took 4 wickets in 4 balls, Afghanistan vs. Ireland,
helped by some nice work on the boundary by Nabi.

https://www.cricket.com.au/video#videoId=6006444011001

[K]

"Andrew Tye has been added to Australia's ODI squad after a side injury forced paceman Kane Richardson to return home from India.

"The most recent of Tye's seven ODIs came last year in England, when he finished with figures of 0-100 at Trent Bridge and became the second Australian bowler in history to concede 100 runs in an ODI."

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/tye-joins-odi-squad-kane-richardson-hurt-20190227-p510pq.html

Who was the first?

[K]

In the 2nd T20, Oz have won the toss and sent India in to bat.

No changes for Oz. Long tail remains.

[Donny]

Second match.

Finch won the toss and the Aussies will chase.

[K]

India go the opposite way: few bowlers.