The second ODI match was played between India and Australia in Adelaide. Which the host team won by 2 wickets. With this, the Kangaroo team has captured the three-match ODI series with a lead of 2-0. In Adelaide, Australia won the toss and invited India to bat first. During this, Team India scored 264 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. In response to which the Kangaroo team won the target by achieving the target at the loss of 8 wickets.
Let us tell you that this is Australia’s fourth series win in the last 6 ODI series against India. For Australia, Matthew Short scored 74 runs in 78 balls. During this, 4 fours and 2 sixes also came from his bat.
Short lost his wicket at 187 runs as the fifth wicket. But Cooper Connolly and Mitchell Owen snatched victory from India by making an important partnership of 59 runs for the sixth wicket. Owen scored 36 runs in just 23 balls.
Coup Connolly troubled the Indian bowlers a lot and despite scoring an excellent fifty, he was not out till the end. He played an excellent inning of 61 runs in 53 balls. This was the best innings of his career. During this, 5 fours and 1 six also came from his bat.
Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh and Washington Sundar took 2-2 wickets for India. Whereas Siraj and Akshar Patel had to be satisfied with 1-1 wicket.
While batting first, India did not have a good start. At the score of 17 runs, India suffered two major setbacks in the form of captain Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli. King Kohli could not open his account in this match also and got duck out.
Rohit Sharma, who failed in the first ODI, played very carefully in this match. He was very defensive especially against Josh Hazlewood. However, he batted slowly and could not score even a single run in 17 balls. But once he got settled, he played an inning of 73 runs. He played 97 balls and also hit 7 fours and 2 sixes during his innings.
There was an excellent partnership of 118 runs between Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer for the third wicket. Iyer scored his first half-century against Australia. He scored 61 runs in 77 balls. After Rohit and Iyer, Akshar Patel played a brilliant innings. He scored 44 runs in 41 balls. After Patel’s dismissal, it seemed that Team India would not be able to even reach the score of 250, but Harshit Rana’s inning of 24 runs in 18 balls and Arshdeep Singh’s 13 runs in 14 balls helped India to post a respectable total of 264 runs.