The second ODI was played between India and Australia in Adelaide, which the host team Australia won by 2 wickets. With this, Australia has won the three-match ODI series by winning two consecutive matches. After this defeat, Indian captain Shubman Gill gave a statement and admitted his mistake.
Actually, after losing the toss and coming to bat first, Team India scored 264 runs at the loss of 9 wickets. In response to which the Kangaroo team achieved the target at the loss of 8 wickets. For Australia, Matt Short played an excellent inning of 74 runs in 78 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 4 fours. Cooper Connolly remained unbeaten after scoring 61 runs on 53 balls. While Matt Renshaw scored 30 runs and Mitchell Owen scored 36 runs.
Shubman Gill lost his first ODI series as captain. After the defeat, Captain Gill considered fielding to be a major reason for the defeat. He blamed the fielders for the defeat. Gill also praised Rohit Sharma’s innings.
After losing the series, Gill said that we had put enough runs on the board. It is not easy to defend such a goal when you miss many chances. In the first match, the toss was very important due to rain. However, the role of toss was not significant in this match, because both the teams played approximately 50-50 overs. In the beginning the wicket was doing a little bit of movement. But after 15 to 20 overs the pitch became good for batting.
Gill said about Rohit that it is not at all easy to return after such a long time and play competitive cricket. However, batting was quite challenging in the beginning. Loved the way Rohit batted. He put up a great fight in the beginning and in my opinion, he just missed a big innings.