After facing much criticism for losing the ODI series, the Indian team managed to make a roaring comeback on their tour of Australia. The mood was somber as Virat Kohli and his men could not adjust quickly to the conditions as they lost the first couple of matches of the three-match ODI to Australia. However, they have managed to pull off three consecutive wins to gain momentum ahead of the all-important Test series.
India defeated Australia by 5 wickets to win the second T20 international in Sydney. Hardik Pandya helped the men in blue to chase down the target of 195 with a couple of balls to spare on Sunday. His unbeaten 42-run knock off 22 balls destroyed the Aussie bowling in the death overs and guided India to register a six-wicket win, handing an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.
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Earlier on the tour, former English skipper, Michael Vaughan wasn’t impressed with India’s performance. Vaughan is a staunch critic of the Indian team and predicted that Virat Kohli and co. will lose to Australia in all three formats of the tour. That prediction was proved wrong on Sunday.
Former India batsman Wasim Jaffer took a dig at Vaughan by posting a hilarious meme in reply to Vaughan’s tweet.
#AusvInd https://t.co/TPjLgHAvO7 pic.twitter.com/xxAGUiyRuG
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) December 6, 2020
In Bumrah’s absence, T Natarajan has stepped up brilliantly as in the last two games he has produced teh figures of 3/30 and 2/20 in the two matches. This is just the tonic India need heading into the highly-competitive four-Test series starting December 17 at the Adelaide Oval.
Talking about the same, Kohli said, “We’ve played as a team in T20 cricket. The fact that we don’t have Rohit and Bumrah, our established white ballplayers, in and still doing well makes me happy. Everyone has played 14 games at least, recently – so they know what their plans are.”
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He further added, We just kept them down to a total which we thought was quite chaseable with the short boundary. It’s contributions from the whole team that make you feel better because young players are taking their opportunities.”
