India beat Australia by 37 runs in first T20I

“I think in India you get away with trying to hit boundaries because it’s a bit smaller, if you just hit either side of the fielders around the bat you can get a lot more value for your shots”.

A fired up Kohli gave an angry send-off to Smith (21 off 14 balls) after he took a catch to dismiss the batsman. MS Dhoni’s cameo (11 off 3) in the final over gave the Indian innings just the right mood to finish with. Speculations said that Smith was distracted while batting.

Social media was abuzz with reactions to Smith’s chat and his dismissal thereafter, while many analysts believed the broadcast gimmick did the player’s powers of concentration more harm than good.

Watson also expressed his disappointment at Rajasthan Royals’ two-year suspension from the Indian Premier League (IPL). He has got a fabulous record in T20 cricket, he’s explosive and he’s a match-winner. That’s upon us to get to respond to them in professional to actually understand that’s what happened when you are out there.

He also praised India new pacer Jasprit Bumrah and said that his action is a help. “Even seeing him in the IPL for Mumbai Indians, he has done incredibly well for them”. With the T20 World Cup coming very soon, Dhoni will be heartened by the fact that his bowlers have finally started to take the load off the batsmen. In Melbourne, the venue for the 2nd T20I, where the pitch is expected to play to the spinners’ advantage again, India will be optimistic of a repeat performance and will hope to close out the series. Of course, his form had dipped and the helicopter shot was gone but he showed his class once more in the first T20.

“It’s important that they don’t treat it as that”, he told reporters at Adelaide Airport.

Ind vs Aus First Twenty-Twenty match Live Updates: After the end of the first phase of the tour, we now move on to the next part of the series that is the T20 series. Nehra bowled an impressive first over conceding just 5 runs.

“It’s such a great thing to see him work hard on that and we’ve seen it in the Big Bash”.

“All I do know is batting at the other end with Usman Khawaja was as good, if not better”.

“It is two games in a row now, in two different formats, that has let us down”.

Though, Raina played 41-run innings in the first game but he had struggled to play according to his identity in the format.

“I could take this stadium with me wherever I bat… this stadium is right up there with anywhere in the world”, Kohli said. He’s a great player off the back foot.

“And he is somebody who reads the game well”.