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Jason behrendorff’s excellent bowling spell followed by clinical performances from moises henriques and Travis head helped Australia earn an eight wicket win over India today in Guwahati. It seemed like the 49th international venue stadium in India didn’t go in the favour of the hosts as the three match series is now locked at 1-1 with the final match scheduled at Hyderabad. Earlier, australian’s captain David warner won the toss and elected to bowl first keeping in mind that dew would play a major factor in the 2nd innings. Jason behrendorff made the captain’s decision right removing Rohit Sharma and Virat kohli in his very first over. The left arm seamer ended with figures of 4 for 21 making india all out for 118 in 20 overs.

It seems like behrendorff had an eye in India’s top order as he removed likes of dhawan and pandey also. Jadhav and Dhoni tried to grind but zampa had the better of both of them with a wrongful and leggie deliveries respectively. Pandya batted sensibly and India limped to 118. A target of 119 was never going to threaten the Australia. But the departures of warner and finch earlier in the 2nd innings shows some dramatic jitters and aggression level of kohli. But the promotion of moises henriques to number 3 in batting order and the sensible knock of Travis head assured the Australia win with maximum no. of balls to spare to win against India in India in t20 internationals.













Henriques and head took on the Indian spinners with both their hands open and clobbered anything loose and finish the formalities with ample time to spare. No doubt Jason behrendorff was the player of the match helping Australia break the 7-match winning streak of India against them. This is the first time Australia have beaten India in last five t20 internationals. Also, kohli outs for a duck today which is his first duck in t20 internationals after 47 innings; the most innings taken by any batsmen. Dhoni also got stumped out for the first time in t20 internationals. The stats say it all that the 3rd match at Hyderabad on Friday would be an exciting thriller as it had been the home ground for the sun risers players dhawan, Bhuvneshwar, warner and henriques. The final t20 promises huge action packed game and people’s attendance.