Live Cricket Score, India vs Australia, 1st T20: Australia beat India by three wickets
THE TIMES OF INDIA | Feb 25, 2019, 08:17:32 IST
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Live Cricket Score, India vs Australia, 1st T20: Australia beat India by three wickets

Stay updated with Times of India for all the live score updates, ball by ball commentary and scorecard of 1st T20 match between India and Australia
20:52 (IST) Feb 24
1
Overs1.5
Score5 - 0

Y Chahal to M Stoinis, Slower through the air this time, the line is a little too straight though. Stoinis works it through mid-wicket and takes a run.

20:51 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs1.4
Score4 - 0

Y Chahal to M Stoinis, Four dot balls! This is the slider and on middle, Stoinis looks to hit it over mid off but it goes off the inner half towards mid on.

20:51 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs1.3
Score4 - 0

Y Chahal to M Stoinis, BEATEN! The slider and outside off, Stoinis looks to hit it through the off side but is beaten by the extra bounce. Three dots to begin with by Chahal.

20:50 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs1.2
Score4 - 0

Y Chahal to M Stoinis, Flatter and shorter, a little bit of turn there. Stoinis stands tall and punches it to mid on.

20:50 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs1.1
Score4 - 0

Y Chahal to M Stoinis, Tosses it up on off, Stoinis strokes it back to the bowler.

20:50 (IST) Feb 24

Yuzvendra Chahal to bowl from the other end.

20:49 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs0.6
Score4 - 0

J Bumrah to D Short, Much better ball from Jasprit as he bowls this outside off on a length. Defended by DS towards the off side. 4 runs off the first over.

20:48 (IST) Feb 24
4
Overs0.5
Score4 - 0

J Bumrah to D Short, FOUR! Goes around the wicket and it helps Short immediately. The ball is on the pads and it is flicked away through square leg for a well-timed boundary. D'Arcy is really strong off his pads and Bumrah would do well to stay away from them.

20:47 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs0.4
Score0 - 0

J Bumrah to D Short, Pushed back to mid on off the back foot for another dot, 4th off the over.

20:46 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs0.3
Score0 - 0

J Bumrah to D Short, On the money once more, a solid straight bat presented in defense by Short to this short of a length ball on middle.

20:46 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs0.2
Score0 - 0

J Bumrah to D Short, Slightly on the pads, D'Arcy misses his flick and gets hit high on the pad.

20:46 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs0.1
Score0 - 0

J Bumrah to D Short, A length ball on top of middle to start off with to Short, the lefty defends it from the crease.

20:44 (IST) Feb 24

We are back for the chase. The Indian team and the Aussie openers are out in the middle. Marcus Stoinis and D'Arcy Short to start. No Finch? Surprise! For India, it is Jasprit Bumrah to bowl the first over.

20:43 (IST) Feb 24

So, 127 is the target. Looks like it will be a walk in the park for the visitors. Will it be so or does the home side have anything special in store? Join us in a bit to find out as we return for the chase...

20:41 (IST) Feb 24

Jason Behrendorff who is up for an interview says he is very happy with the bowler's performance. Reckons the wicket is a tough one to bat one but he hopes his batsmen can do the job. Mentions back of a length is the length to bowl on this wicket. Ends by saying he was really happy with the run out as they have been working on their fielding.

20:37 (IST) Feb 24

As for the Aussie bowling, everyone looked on their mark this night but the stand out bowler was Nathan Coulter-Nile who picked up 3 wickets. The worst economy rate on show was below 8, and that tells us the story in itself. Such was the display that even Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis were not required to bowl. A brilliant bowling show, and we have one of the Aussie players at the sideline to talk to us.

20:34 (IST) Feb 24

Despite that lusty blow from MS Dhoni in the last over, the Aussies will surely enter the break as the happier side. This is a brilliant bowling performance from the visitors, to restrict the Indians to 126 after they were 80/3 at the half-way mark. A 61-ball gap between two boundaries off the bat tells us a story in itself. After Aaron Finch won the coin flip and elected to bowl first, the home side were looking decent at the beginning despite losing their star opener Rohit Sharma to a miscued ramp shot. Lokesh Rahul and Virat Kohli looked sublime as they picked up boundaries and singles during the Powerplay to take the score to 49 at the end of 6 overs. The whole turnaround though came after the end of the ninth over. Wickets fell like nine-pins and even though Rahul got to his fifty, he fell soon after and could not convert it into a big one. MS Dhoni was there till the end but he also missed his timing tonight as he ended with 29 runs off 37 balls. The pitch looked on the slower side but that does not mean that this is by any chance a par score.

20:33 (IST) Feb 24
1lb
Overs19.6
Score126 - 7

N Coulter-Nile to MS Dhoni, Absolutely not! Just a leg bye from it. So despite it going for a biggie early in the over, just 8 comes from the over. Another one which is on a shorter length. Dhoni looks to pull but the ball hits the thigh pad, it rolls towards short third man and the batsmen cross over. INDIA END WITH 127 for 7!

20:33 (IST) Feb 24
1wd
Overs19.6
Score125 - 7

N Coulter-Nile to MS Dhoni, Wide! Down the leg side, Dhoni looks to pull but misses. Will the extra ball prove to costly?

20:32 (IST) Feb 24
0
Overs19.5
Score124 - 7

N Coulter-Nile to MS Dhoni, In the air... but safe! What is interesting here is, Dhoni does not run. There was surely two available there. Coulter-Nile goes short, Dhoni looks to pull but gets a top edge. The fielder from fine leg can't get to it but the batsmen don't run.