Final Score: Australia 127 for 7 (Maxwell 56, Short 37, Bumrah 3-16) beat India 126 for 7 (Rahul 50, Dhoni 29*, Coulter-Nile 3-26) by three wickets

India Lost the first T20I against Australia in the last ball thriller in Vizag. It has been seen that what a bowling pitch can do to a match. It was a tight contest in a low scoring encounter where both the teams had their nerves on the edge.

It came to the last ball when Australia required 2 runs to seal the match. Pat Cummins keeping his head in the game, tucked the good length ball in the blockhole to long on where the fielder was too deep to seal the match. He scored 14 runs from the last over of Umesh Yadav.

It should not have to come to that end when Australia Needed 38 off 40 Balls with 8 wickets in hand and their set batsmen were on the pitch facing Indian bowlers. And then, the successive fall of wickets with disciplined bowling by India started to snitch the match off Australi’s hands.

Making his international debut, Mayank Markande conceded only five off the 18th over. Then, with Australia needing 16 from 12, Jasprit Bumrah bowled a staggeringly good 19th over, giving away just two runs while also bouncing out Handscomb and cleaning up Coulter-Nile with a leg-stump yorker.

Then there were two, Cummins and Richardson who both showed a calm head and took Australia to win scoring 14 off lat over bowled by Umesh Yadav.

India had scored only 1 boundary in last 5 over. It was 100 for 6 with 5 overs left when MS Dhoni took the charge in his had trying to hit the ball and refusing singles. Refusing singles was a good move by Dhoni as he was required to be on the pitch as the ball was hitting the ground and Coulter-Nile, Richardson and Cummins kept getting the ball to stop or skid gave him almost nothing to hit save a wide full-toss that he launched beyond the cover boundary in the final over.