Australia opt to bowl against India in first T20I

Back in 2012, he scored his first Test hundred at this ground.

Earlier in the summer, Melbourne Stars batsman Kevin Pietersen offered a unique insight into how he was approaching a run chase in the KFC Big Bash League, telling the television audience where he’d hit the ball against the Thunder at the MCG as he belted a 42-ball 76.

Watson finished with 2-24 from four overs, striking with his first ball and again four balls later.

“I think Adelaide, they are making a stand of him, the amount of runs he’s scoring”, Dhoni said. They’re good fielders. Travis Head can bat quite well, so they’re really attractive packages. Remarkable though it is, Kohli is yet to score a century in his prolific Twenty20 career, and he looked like he might rectify that in his 176th match in the format.

“He is someone who reads the game very well”. “We intend to play fearless cricket”.

Adelaide Oval is the location for the start of the series, with both teams fresh off the back of five one-dayers, in which Australia ran out 4-1 winners. R Ashwin dismissed Finch to almost end all hopes for Australia.

Bumrah made his impact with the bowl as he took 2-40 in his 10 overs.

“I don’t think the fast bowlers bowled badly, frankly, but of course, the bulk of the wickets were taken by the spinners in the middle overs”.

“Obviously there is a big carrot at the end of this with the World Cup team being picked, and you can only pick 15 people so we want to give people opportunities to see what they can do”, Di Venuto, who is covering as regular coach Darren Lehman recovers from illness, said, according to Cricket Australia. And over here with the bigger outfields, they can exploit that, unless the batsman is willing to play a few reverse-sweeps and all those shots or he’s very good in playing spin. “Then he can put pressure on the spinners, but otherwise it becomes slightly hard to consistently hit them for boundaries”, he added.

Dhoni also spoke about Jadeja’s form on this tour, saying that along with the pacers’ performance today will be a big positive for the side. I would love to thank the fans for coming out and supporting us. That’s one period where we have struggled consistently, so it’s good to see them bowl well. The pick of the bowlers, however, was Ravindra Jadeja. So, while the statistics might indicate that the 22-year old Jasprit Bumrah was India’s best bowler with three wickets in the match, they do not tell the whole story.

The opener took the responsibility for his batting order’s collapse, despite Australia getting off to a great start, stealing 34 runs off the first three overs. They kept up the tempo initially, taking advantage of the power play overs as the 50-mark came up in the sixth over. And once you are given the ball, there is some kind of pressure on you.

The One Day series has been completed and it was mainly a series that was loved by batsmen as every game has huge scores in the first innings and the team bowling always get hammered. And that’s what happened.