Australia prevailed at Feroz Shah Kotla to clinch five-match ODI series 3-2 following three consecutive victories. While riding on all-round performance the visitors went on to clinch the series decider by 35 runs on Wednesday. Usman Khawaja and Adam Zampa have played a remarkable role in the virtual finale to help Australia win the series.

It has been a memorable tour for Australia, who began with a 2-0 sweep of the T20I leg – their first ever T20 series win over India – before fighting back from losses in Hyderabad and Nagpur with victories in Ranchi, Mohali and Delhi to seal their first ODI series win in India in a decade.

The triumph is also Australia’s first ODI series win since January 2017, at home against Pakistan, and their first one-day series win on foreign soil since beat Sri Lanka in 2016. Perhaps most impressively, this side is almost indistinguishable to the one that got blown off the park in England nine months ago in Justin Langer’s first series as head coach.

Usman Khawaja is Scoring 383 runs in the five-match ODI series speak huge volumes and it was not that easy. Usman Khawaja deserves full credit for having the best performance of his life. Before coming to India, his statistics showed ‘Zero centuries’. But now he can leave the tour happily with two centuries to his name.

After electing to bat and motoring to 1-175 on the back of Khawaja’s even 100, Australia lost 6-54 to almost undo all the good work they had done on a difficult pitch that has only twice seen a team score beyond 300.

The top three – Khawaja, Finch (43) and Peter Handscomb (52) – continued their good form before the middle order of No.4 Glenn Maxwell (1), returning all rounder Marcus Stoinis (20), second-gamer Ashton Turner (20) and glove man Alex Carey (3) fell in 12 overs to hand the ascendancy to the hosts.

Usman Khawaja is Scoring 383 runs in the five-match ODI series

Rohit’s slow half-century wasn’t all enough when he lost partners at the other hand. Kedar Jadhav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar chipped in with the forties each only to entertain the fans. But the Aussies got back into the game and removed everyone in the team. Adam Zampa was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets to his name.

Even as the Indians tried their best to showcase their mettle at home, they couldn’t match the performance put up by the Aussies. Pat Cummins emerged as the leading wicket-taker in the series with as many as 14 wickets to his name while Adam Zampa finished with 11.

Indians absolutely gutted for losing hat-trick of games and that too at their familiar conditions. This is once in a blue moon scenario. Well, this shouldn’t affect them heading into the World Cup. As they still have a lot of things to bridge the gap in their own team department.

It one heck of a roller-coaster ride and clearly. It Aussies who put extra efforts to get the job done.

Score Summary:

Australia – 272/9 (50 overs)

Usman Khawaja – 100, Peter Handscomb- 52 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 3/48

India – 237/10 (50 overs)

Rohit Sharma- 56, Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 46 | Adam Zampa – 3/46

Man of The Match: Usman Khawaja

Man of The Series: Usman Khawaja