India win off last ball against Australia

India also stands at a happy first and second position in Tests and One-Day Internationals, respectively. Though he didn’t get to do much in the batting department, he was utilized as the filler bowler by Dhoni and he repaid by dismissing Glen Maxwell in 2 matches.

A combination of good bowling and tiredness did Rohit in, with Cameron Boyce’s leg-spin giving Australia a vital breakthrough.

India surpassed the target of 198 by making 200 for three in their 20 overs. Equally impressive, Watson and Travis Head put on 93 off 47 balls for the fourth wicket of which Head’s share was 26.

In the end Watson scored almost two thirds of his team’s runs. The bowler Cameron Boyce was Australia’s outstanding performer on the night, but he was let down by the glove work of Cameron Bancroft, a speculative choice as wicketkeeper for this match in the absence of Matthew Wade.

This was also the second-highest score ever in the newest format of the game, behind Aaron Finch’s 156, and it is bound to breathe fresh life in Watson’s career with talks of him being an uncertainty in Australia’s 15-member squad for next month’s T20 WC in India.

Yuvraj Singh made his comeback into the Indian team after some time. “There might be one or two changes based on the conditions in the World T20, but this is roughly what our T20 side will look like”, he said. You may think that the law of averages will strike at some point.

Dhoni’s participant and deputy -of-the-sequence Virat Kohli said regardless of the 1-4 sequence reduction within the ODIs he was pleased with the way in which Asia wrapped their visit of Australia up. Asked if him batting up the order would be the best option for Australia, Watson said: “I certainly do enjoy opening the batting, there’s no doubt about that”.

It left the innings in a lurch, with 51 more runs needed at that stage, when Yuvraj Singh (15*) walked in to bat for the first time in the series.

Meanwhile, the initial part of Yuvraj’s innings would have brought back memories of his timid innings against Sri Lanka in the 2014 World T20 final.

Virat Kohli has no such blindness. “It has always suited my game and my mentality as well, probably because I’m most experienced batting there and had the most success as well”.

“If you’re taking it seriously, I think you play a lot more than that when there’s a World Cup involved”, he said. “But the important thing is to get the team sorted out”, Watson said.

Which is exactly what he did. Raina had earlier kept India in the hunt with two back-to-back crucial fours in the 18th over, after which India needed just 22 runs in two overs.

When the more immediately fluent Khawaja fell with the score at 16, Watson pulled the wicket-taker Ashish Nehra for six.

Dhoni in a roundabout manner also made it clear that likes of Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav might find it hard to break into the limited overs side considering their inconsistent performances over the past few years.