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India vs Australia, 2nd ODI - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: Australia tour of India, 2019 Venue: Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Date & Time: Mar 05, 01:30 PM LOCAL
Virat Kohli has registered his 50th ODI fifty
Virat Kohli has registered his 50th ODI fifty © Getty

Vijay Shankar finishes off Australia's challenge by having No 11 Adam Zampa yorked and bowled. India win the Nagpur ODI by 8 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the series. As it happened, this was also India's 500th ODI win. What a game. The fortunes turned over and over again. Another reason why there should be a better balance between bat and ball.

Needing 11 runs in the last over, India didn't have much option but to go with Vijay Shankar. And he has repaid the faith by striking off the first ball. Marcus Stoinis is trapped legbefore. Match has again turned in India's favour.

FIFTYMarcus Stoinis had some early struggle but has ended up stroking a fine fifty under pressure

21 needed off last 3 overs. Marcus Stoinis manages only a single. And yet, Australia seem the happier side. Quite a game, this!

Australia are collapsing way faster than they would like. Bumrah with the wicket, again. Pat Cummins edges to the 'keeper. They have collapsed from 218 for 5 to 223 for 8.

Jasprit Bumrah returns to the attack and strikes rightaway. Nathan Coulter-Nile looks to make room and has his stumps disturbed. The course of the match is turning around again.

Kuldeep Yadav strikes. Alex Carey's slog sweep doesn't come off this time as he under-edges the ball on to the stumps. Crucial wicket. But with less than run-a-ball needed in the last 6 overs, can India win it from here?

Alex Carey, who looked all at sea against Kuldeep Yadav on his return spell over, has hit him all around the ground in his next. Australia are still very much in the game, having crossed the 200-run mark.

WICKET Peter Handscomb may have succeeded against the spin challenge of Ravindra Jadeja but failed against his arm. Jadeja effects a fine run out via a direct out to dismiss Peter Handscomb, the only batsmen to have countered the Indian spinners. Big blow.

India have tightened the scoring and the required rate is now more than run-a-ball - 100 needed off 99 balls.

Kuldeep Yadav delivers the big blow! Glenn Maxwell is cleaned up. On paper, 132 for 4 doesn't seem too bad in a 250-run chase with a deep batting order but on this turner, India would believe they are on top.






@StarSportsIndia Vijay Shankar is making full use of the chances he is getting with good batting performances,something which Rayudu and Pant are missing.He may become a certainity with Jadhav and Hardik if his bowling improves.Then India will surely win the World Cup.



, Ambati Rayudu is having a lean patch where he is hardly scoring runs whereas players like Manish Pandey and Shreyas Iyer are scoring centuries.

Pat Cummins has struck in the first over! Rohit Sharma looks to slash and holes out to the fielder at third man, registering his first duck in India.

Surprise, surprise! Aaron Finch has decided to field after winning the toss. The pitch is only going to deteriorate further in the second innings. Virat Kohli agrees. He is backing his batsmen to do well against the spinners. Shaun Marsh and Nathan Lyon return to the side in place of Jason Behrendorff and Ashton Turner.

India are unchanged.

Teams:

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (c), Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (w), Kedar Jadhav, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah

Australia (Playing XI): Usman Khawaja, Aaron Finch (c), Shaun Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Alex Carey(w), Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Adam Zampa

"The average score here is 292 but today might be different," says Murali Karthik after a pitch filled with cracks greet him and Sunil Gavaskar when they give a pitch report. A big day for the spinners.

Hello and welcome to the second one-dayer between India and Australia. Having won the two T20s, Australia suffered their maiden loss of the tour to India in the opening ODI. In a low-scoring encounter, barring in bits, Australia looked far from the outfit that they would want to be at the world cup. Can they turn things around? We have to wait and watch.

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