Batting at No 4 is my forte, says Manish Pandey

“It was a remarkable to see 3000 runs scored in five ODI matches”. This is why they often chose to rest players throughout the ODI series. Smith had no qualms in admitting that the tracks were unlike Australian pitches and he showered his bowlers with praise for delivering on such unhelpful wickets.

“The very first game he played he bowled well with the semi-new ball, he bowled well in the middle overs, and he bowled well for us at the death, also”.

“I think we have been competitive in the series. They really stepped up at pivotal times”.

“There’s no doubt that Wednesday night’s win over India at Manuka Oval was one of the best that I’ve been involved with as an Australia player, given the circumstances we found ourselves in and the top-shelf quality of our opposition”, he said in a column for Cricket Australia.

For Australia, opener David Warner scored 122 alongside Mitchell Marsh’s unbeaten 102.

India managed to chase down a 331-run victory target to end their losing streak but Dhoni warned that such interference could affect the outcome of tight contests.

Mitchell Marsh got his first century, John Hastings proved he can be a consistent performer, Kane Richardson showed his big heart and Shaun Marsh said I am always there as a one-day cricketer. “Those are the kind of bowlers we’re looking for; he’s got the variations, he has got a slightly awkward action”. We should have got a little bit better than that. “You probably want to score a few more off the last few overs”. But after a spectacular Indian batting collapse – in which the last nine wickets fell for just 46 runs – Australia won by 25 runs to lead the series 4-0. Over the course of the tournament, we played some really good cricket.

The Indian limited-overs captain contributed with a crucial 34 and was involved in an important 94-run stand for the fourth wicket with Pandey. I think you’ve got to try and not be too predictable to MS. You’ve to try and get him out most of all. “Grounds over here are quite big, and once you know the fielder is not that quick or doesn’t have a good fielder, you will put pressure on that fielder”, said the wicketkeeper-batsman.

“Cricket has a long history of female participation but as we know in sport in the modern age”, Sutherland told ABC Grandstand.

At this stage, the women’s game needs to feed off the attention from its male Big Bash League counterparts, and that was evident with the five-figure crowd attendance at some of the double header matches. He finds the boundary at the right time.

Australian skipper Steven Smith was a happy man with a dominating scoreline to the team’s credit but did not forget to praise the good performance of the visitors. “For me, the most disappointing thing was the characteristics of our wickets”.

There have been a handful of previous incident involving SpiderCam; Smith witnessed a similar instance during a 2012 Champions League match while Chris Gayle was denied a six during the Indian Premier League a year ago when the umpires ruled the ball had deflected off one of the SpiderCam wires on its way over the rope. Though Dhoni was out slogging the next ball, Pandey kept his cool to get a four to third man, and then a couple over mid-off. But fielding cost us quite a lot tonight.