India vs Australia 3rd T20I Highlights: Maxwell ton single-handedly leads AUS to stunning victory
India vs Australia 3rd T20I Highlights: Glenn Maxwell almost single-handedly led an extraordinary run chase from Australia as they beat India by five wickets. A century from Ruturaj Gaikwad helped India put up a score of 222/3. While Australia lost wickets frequently, Australia's batters kept themselves within sights of the required run rate. It eventually ended up becoming almost a one-man show with Maxwell almost single-handedly keeping their run rate up while Marcus Stoinis struggled at the other end. Captain Matthew Wade also took time to get going but he eventually started ably assisting Maxwell in his assault. Maxwell finished off with a six and three fours off the last four balls of the match, finishing unbeaten on 104 off 48 balls while Wade was on 28 off 16....Read More
India earlier got off to a shaky start batting first with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ishan Kishan falling early. Suryakumar and Ruturaj Gaikwad then steadied the ship. The pair put up 57 off 47 balls for the third wicket before SKY fell for 39 off 29. Gaikwad has soldiered on and put up an even bigger stand with Tilak Varma since then, crossing his half-century in the process. Gaikwad accelerated dramatically after that and eventually went past 100 in 52 balls. The last over of the Indian innings was bowled by Glenn Maxwell and it went for a whopping 30 runs. India ended up with a score of 222/3 with Gaikwad finishing unbeaten on 123 off 57 balls. Tilak Varma scored just 39 in 29 balls in a 141-run partnership with Gaikwad that came in just 59 balls.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: FOUR! 14 runs off the first over
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Edged and four! No slip in place, length ball that flies off a thick edge from Gaikwad to the boundary. Gaikwad is on four off two, Jaiswal on six off four.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Here we go then!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad open the batting for India. Jhye Richardson bowling the first over for Australia.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: BCCI on Mukesh Kumar
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: This is what the BCCI had to say about Mukesh Kumar. "Fast bowler Mukesh Kumar made a request to BCCI to be released from India’s squad ahead of the third T20I against Australia in Guwahati. Mukesh is getting married and has been granted leave for the duration of his wedding festivities.
"He will join the squad ahead of the 4th T20I in Raipur. Pacer Deepak Chahar has been added to India’s squad for the remainder of the series."
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: SKY's thoughts
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: SKY says he is not surprised that dew has set in early and he is happy to bat first. "We just want to do the same thing, have the game plans and express ourselves. One change for us - Avesh replaces Mukesh, who is playing his biggest game, he's getting married and we wish him all the best," he said.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: What Matthew Wade said
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Wade says that it doesn't really matter if they bowl or bat first since dew seems to have settled in already. However, it could become a bigger factor later in the match, which is why they are bowling first. “We were short in a couple of phases, but the boys are in good shape. We have a few going out after this game - Travis Head, Kane Richardson and Jason Behrendorff,” he says.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India XI
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Prasidh Krishna
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Australia XI
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Travis Head, Aaron Hardie, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade(w/c), Nathan Ellis, Jason Behrendorff, Tanveer Sangha, Kane Richardson
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: TOSS ALERT!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Matthew Wade has won the toss and Australia will bowl first.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Pitch report
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Deep Dasgupta and Matthew Hayden with the pitch report today. It's a pretty big ground - 70m and 73m square boundaries, 83m straight boundary. It's a typical high-scoring venue, dew could be a big factor though. The pitch is very hard, black-soil wicket and has a good sheen. Conditions will be very good for batting. The new ball though could swing around a bit
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: SKY giving a pep talk
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The Indian players are out there on the ground in their training kits, going through the motions. Suryakumar just gave them a little pep talk when they got into the huddle. Counting down now...
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Two matches, two batting records for India
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: In the first match, India surpassed their record for highest successful run chase against Australia in a T20I. In the second, their score of 235/4 is the highest for India against Australia in a T20I.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The last time Australia lost three T20Is in a row…
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Australia losing matches is not something that happens often, as Indian fans would know considering what happened in the World Cup. They are now standing on the precipice of losing three T20Is in a row for the first time since 2021. Back then they had gone on a four-match losing streak to West Indies and Bangladesh.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Rinku's SMAT exploits
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: He did it in the IPL last year but the remarkable thing about Rinku Singh is that he is keeping his strike rate up with machine-like efficiency regardless of where he is playing. Before his 22 (14) and 31* (9), he flexed his big-hitting muscles at the domestic level - hitting 256 runs in 7 innings at a strike rate of 170.66 in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Memories of a certain MSD?
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: That is what Rinku Singh is evoking in the minds of most cricket fans the way he is finishing innings consistently for the past couple of years. As it turns out, even some cricketers feel the same. "When I saw Rinku come in to bat [in the first T20I], the composure he showed was brilliant. It reminded me of someone (laughs). Everyone knows the answer(laughs again)," said Suryakumar.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Wholesale changes for Australia?
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Australia decided to release six out of their seven World Cup-winning squad members ahead of today's game. CricketAustralia.com.au reported that Steve Smith and Adam Zampa have already flown back home while Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis and Sean Abbott will return home on Wednesday after the the third T20I at Guwahati on Tuesday. The decision was taken to give a breather to the players who have been in India for more than two months now. Most of these players were also a part of Australia's ODI squad that played a three-match series against India in the lead-up to the World Cup.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India's predicted XI
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India could choose to play the same eleven as in the first two games for this match before testing the bench strength of their bench strength, considering a number of players in this eleven themselves are not considered as frontline candidates. If anything, they might choose to try out Washington Sundar in place of Axar Patel. You can read about this here.
Openers: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal
Middle and top-order: Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh
All-rounder: Washington Sundar/Axar Patel
Spinner: Ravi Bishnoi
Pacers: Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The weather
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: It seems safe to say that any disruption due to rain seems highly unlikely during the third T20I. According to AccuWeather, it is expected to be a clear day on November 28 in the city. The maximum temperature is expected to be 21 degrees Celsius at the start of play around 7:00 pm IST, while the temperature will dip to 19 degrees Celsius at the close of play around 10:30 pm IST.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: T20Is in Guwahati
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Only twice has the Barsapara ground hosted T20 internationals before. The first match had been a low-scorer in October 2017. India were all out for 118 and Australia chased it down with eight wickets in hand. In the second, India beat South Africa by 16 runs despite the fact that they had scored 237/3 in October last year. There was a washed out match in between the two against Sri Lanka on January, 2020.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India keep Zampa quiet
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Leading up to this series, Adam Zampa had taken 12 wickets in 14 matches against India. Zampa ended up going wicketless in the second T20I.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Rinku Singh's late boosts
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Rinku Singh's penchant for wringing the most out of the last few balls of an innings has been on full display in this series. His strike rate of 344 in the second T20I was the highest by a batter in matches between India and Australia. The previous landmark was 288.88 when Shikhar Dhawan smashed 26 from nine balls at the SCG in 2016.
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Australia full squad
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Matthew Short, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade(w/c), Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Tanveer Sangha, Jason Behrendorff, Aaron Hardie, Kane Richardson, Ben McDermott, Josh Philippe
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India full squad
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Hello and welcome!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The young Indian team have shown that they are as good as any the country has put out to face Australia in a T20I series in the post. They secured a last-ball win a thriller of a first T20I and then blazed 235 runs batting first in the second. Now, they are standing on the precipice of sealing a win in the five-match series.