Australia's fast bowlers executed a short-of-good-length plan to perfection on a two-paced pitch, but nerves nearly undid their chase of 127
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Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Ankur Dhawan
That's all from us, hoping everyone has their fingernails in tact, goodnight.
Nathan Coulter-Nile is the man of the match for his three for 26: We had worked out pretty quickly that it wasn't coming on, so dragged our lengths back. Don't remember the last time we had a win when I was playing, so it's always good to win a game, hopefully we can go on and win the series
Finch: When Bumrah has got overs up his sleeve it's never easy, but the run-outs didn't help either. Maxwell played a hell of an innings on a difficult pitch.
Kohli Very pleased with the bowling effort, never thought we'd be in this situation but Bumrah can do wonders, even Mayank bowled brilliantly, I thought. We want to give Rahul and Rishabh game-time. Rahul played a really good knock, we had a good partnership, had we gone on though, we could have got 150, which would have been a match-winning score on this pitch. But Australia played better cricket overall and deserved to win
Bhupathi: "Low scoring games are always fun to watch. Teams around the world are unable to decode how to phase the innings while chase low scores. "
Bhavik: "All efforts from Bumrah wasted by Yadav. Bhuvi would have done the job for India. Really should have a win after Bumrah's effort"
Maxwell: I was able to control the middle overs. Our wickets caused a bit of chaos towards the end but credit to Richardson and Cummins for finishing it off
Wow, what a cracker we've witnessed at Vizag, which saw a tie the last time India were here. Again, it's a last ball finish which went down to the throw hurled at the bowler's end, beaten by a scampering Jhye Richardson. Australia were coasting with Maxwell and Short, batted like blind men groping in the dark post their dismissals, a brilliant 19th over from Bumrah turned the tide in India's favour, but Cummins found the boundary when they most needed it and they ran like their lives depended on it to steal two off the last ball, and go one-nil up.
Dhoni walks up to Kohli, asks him to get to deep midwicket from extra cover. That brings Markande to extra cover and Pandya to square leg
now square leg is in and fine leg is back. Is he going to go short of a length?
Third man, sweeper, deep backward square, deep midwicket and long-on are out, informs Varun from the Venue
With Australia requiring 16 runs from the final 12 deliveries, Bumrah conceded just two in the penultimate over and sent back Handscomb and Coulter-Nile
Dhoni registered India's second-lowest strike rate for an innings of at least 35 balls on his way to an unbeaten 29 off 37
Glenn Maxwell had to quickly adjust to challenging conditions and produced an impressive half-century but it looked as though victory was slipping away
Australia's fast bowlers executed a short-of-good-length plan to perfection on a two-paced pitch, but nerves nearly undid their chase of 127
Australia's limited-overs captain also stressed on the importance of BBL in having his squad game ready in India
