Australia beat India by 21 Runs at Bengaluru Chinnaswamy Stadium in 4th ODI
Bengaluru, 29th Sept: Australia beat India by 21 runs at M.Chinnaswamy stadium of Bangaluru on Thursday in the forth ODI of the five-match series and ended India’s one-day international winning streak at nine. India had never won 10 successive ODIs – by comparison, Australia has done it six times – and its bid was only just thwarted. Australia made 334/5, the first 300 score in the series, including a 14th ODI century by opener David Warner.
India was in it until the game was suspended because of a shower. India lost its momentum. Kedar Jadhav (67) was caught in the deep in the 46th over. Three balls later, Manish Pandey was bowled on 33 by Pat Cummins. Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led India past 300, but the asking rate was too much in the face of inspired death bowling from the Australia quicks. India ended on 313/8. India still leads the series 3-1 with one match to go but lost an ODI for the first time since July.
Kane Richardson (3/58) and Nathan Coulter-Nile (2/56) shared five wickets to strangle the Indian run chase. But India made a good start as Ajinkya Rahane (53 off 58 balls) and Rohit Sharma (65 off 42 balls) put on 106 runs for the opening wicket. Rahane was caught at long on, then Sharma and Kohli were in a bad mix-up, both ending up at the same end. Sharma was run out. Kohli played on off Coulter-Nile in the 25th over as India was reduced to 147/3. Hardik Pandya (41) came out to bat at No. 4 again and attacked the spinners as in Indore. He made 88 with Jadhav as India’s 200 came up in the 32nd over. Pandya was out hitting to long on.
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