IND vs AUS, KL Rahul Catch: Indian cricket team were facing the Australia cricket team in the first match on Friday, March 17. Moreover, the game was being played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India.
India were coming into this game after drawing against Australia in the fourth test match. Steve Smith went on to win the toss and he decided to bat first at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
Australia went on to hit 480 and 172 runs respectively in the first and second innings. While India went on to put up 571 runs in the first innings. India won the test series by 2-1 against Australia.
Virat Kohli won the man of the match award against Australia in the fourth test. He went on to score 186 runs from 364 balls with a strike rate of 51.10.
Cameron Green went on to score 114 runs against India. While he did so from 170 balls with a strike rate of 67.06. Cameron Green hit 18 fours.
Both teams India and Australia have gone on to face 143 times in ODI cricket. Moreover, India have won 53 times while Australia have won 80 times.
IND vs AUS: KL Rahul takes a perfect diving catch to dismiss Steve Smith for 22
India have gone on to win the first ODI match against Australia in a hard-fought manner. KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja‘s crucial partnership, in the end, won the game.
KL Rahul went on to pluck a perfect diving catch on his right side to dismiss Steve Smith. Hardik Pandya sent the Australian captain towards the wide line after which KL Rahul took the catch.
Playing XI:
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Srikar Bharat (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj.
Australia: Usman Khawaja, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith (c), Peter Handscomb, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Matthew Kuhnemann.
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