SYDNEY: India have given up on the first battle of the Australia tour, as if playing a no-brainer at home. Kohli’s side lost to Sidney Samar by seven runs on Friday due to the reckless batting of the batsmen after spending too many runs on the bowlers. As a result, home Australia took a 1-0 lead in the three-match ODI series. Today’s high-scoring encounter was expected to be fiercely competitive and exciting as Team India returned to international cricket after a long six months due to the Covid-16 crisis. However, the Kohli force, which went to the country from the Congo after playing in the IPL, was found to be in dire need of coordination. The bowler bowled brilliantly. Most Indian batteries did not seem to have come out of the Twenty20s. From Australian star Glenn Maxwell (45, 18 balls, 5 fours, 3 sixes) to a complete failure in the IPL, to captain Aaron Finch (114, 126 balls, 4 fours, 2 sixes), the explosive and responsible for his national team. Batting was seen. That’s why IPL fans trolled them too. Yashpreet Bumjhara and Yuzbendra Chahal, who regularly injured the opposition batsmen in the IPL4, seemed to have lost their sparkle. Similarly, he was not surprisingly able to take advantage of the life he received from captain Virat Kohli. ) Added 127 runs for the fifth wicket. However, this was not enough for a retreat like the hills of India. Pandya batted explosively. Shikhar also scored an important half-century. However, India’s hopes were dashed when both were dismissed for 14 runs. Dhawan and Mayank Agrawal (22 runs, 18 balls, 2 fours, 1 six) but laid a solid foundation for India. Both scored a quick 53 in the first wicket. May Hazelwood, 22, was shot by Jose Hazlewood in a short ball. Meanwhile, captain Kohli (21 runs, 21 balls, 2 fours, 1 six) missed an easy catch in the first innings of the innings. He, of course, took 4 wickets to make up for the loss. Hazlewood did not allow B Kohli to reap the benefits of life. It was he who pushed Shreyas Ayyar (2) with Kohli in one over to push India into crisis. India’s defeat was kind of assured after KL Rahul was dismissed in the 14th over. Towards the end, Rabindra Jadeja’s 25, Navdeep Saini’s 24 * and Mohammad Sami’s 13 helped India to a 300-run victory over Customs, before Australia won the toss and elected to bat. (11 fours, 4 sixes) smashed a 37-run stand for the loss of seven wickets in the allotted 50 overs. In reply, India were bowled out for 306/7. The loss of the first match of the much-anticipated series, which is being played under tight rules in the Covid Cutting and Biology ring, has increased the significance of the second match for India to be played in the same Sydney on Sunday. Winning the match to save the series is essential for the Kohli company.
