India scale yet another Mt 350 against Australia

Welcome to the age of new-age cricket, folks. One wherever bowlers are treated with utter disdain, wherever batsmen rule the roost like ne'er before and wherever even a 350-run total isn't safe.

Two weeks on, India did a ‘Jaipur’ once more, this point within the Orange town. The protagonists were a similar — Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli — however India lost some a lot of wickets in pursuit of what's now's the third-highest chase in ODI history.

At the VCA construction, a charged-up Kohli ensured India pursued down 351 to win the sixth ODI by six wickets. His efforts meant India levelled the series 2-2. The bandwagon currently moves to city for the seventh and final ODI during this rain-affected series.

After the departure of Dhawan, WHO scored an excellent hundred, and Sharma, WHO created seventy nine, Kohli took the team target vogue. He enacted the Jaipur script to talk about his seventeenth ODI ton, associate degree undefeated one hundred fifteen (66 balls, 18x4, 1x6).

Sharma and Dhawan started off cautiously, however when Dhawan got a lifeline early (he’d got one in Jaipur too!), courtesy Glenn Maxwell dropping a sitter at backward purpose, the couple determined take the fight to the guests. consequent over saw 3 boundaries — 2 from Sharma and one from Dhawan — race through a fast parcel of land.

Dhawan carried on stylish, notching up his fourth ODI ton and celebrating it in an exceedingly manner solely he will. However, he too suffered from a lapse in concentration. And was cleansed up whereas death penalty a intended flick over fine-leg.

Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh were sent back in fast succession, Mitchell Johnson dispensing his favorite weapon — the short ball — against them.

But Kohli was going obscurity, approach} when Shane Watson rubbed him the incorrect way with some words. India took the batting powerplay within the thirty fourth over, and Kohli created certain it yielded a cool forty six runs. With eighty four required off the last ten, Kohli break free, hit 3 consecutive boundaries off Johnson within the forty first over.

MS Dhoni knew he required to try to to very little with Kohli during this reasonably a mood. And with thirty five needed off 3 overs, Kohli blasted 5 boundaries within the next twelve balls to bring it all the way down to six from the last over. Dhoni was over happy to complete the duty started by the highest 3.

Earlier, an easy 156 (115 balls, 13x4s, 6x6) from skipper martyr Bailey and a breezy 102 (94 balls, 13x4, 3x6) from Shane Watson high-powered the guests to 350/6.