The Indian skipper, Virat Kohli dropped a catch but quickly redeemed himself by affecting running out his Australian counterpart Matthew Wade in the ongoing penultimate T20I of the three-match series on Sunday. On the final delivery of the eighth over, bowled by Washington Sundar, Wade was looking to flick the ball towards the leg-side but only managed to get a leading edge that went straight to Kohli at cover.

However, the India captain dropped the catch but was quick to recover and threw the ball to KL Rahul and he whipped the bails off in without much of a fuss, sending Wade back to the pavilion. Cricket Australia posted a video of the comical dismissal and termed it a “calamity” as they captioned it as, “What A Calamity”.

What a calamity! #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/2NeeTB4ixT

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 6, 2020

Wade, stand-in skipper as Aaron Finch was injured as he led from the front by scoring 58 runs off just 32 balls. He smashed 10 boundaries and a six during his stay in the middle. Earlier, Virat Kohli won the toss and invited Australia to bat. Both teams made three changes to their line-ups.

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Apart from Wade, Steve Smith was looking in good touch at his favorite Sydney Cricket Ground and played a crucial knock of 46 that helped the hosts to an imposing total of 194 for five in their allotted 20 overs. For India, T Natarajan was the pick of the bowlers. He returned with figures of two for 20 from his four-over spell.

Yuzvendra Chahal, man of the match from the series opener, proved expensive on the day. 

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The leg-spinner went on to conceded as many as 51 runs in his quota of four overs but managed to scalp the wicket of  Steve Smith. India needs to get 195 runs to win the series with a game to spare.