Main points:
India defeated Australia by 48 runs in the fourth T20 played at Carrara Oval, Queensland. The performance of Shubman Gill and Akshar Patel led the team to victory. India took a 2-1 lead in the series and the next match became decisive.
Delhi: India defeated Australia by 48 runs in the fourth T20 match played at Carrara Oval, Queensland. With this, India took a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. In this match, Washington Sundar and Akshar Patel performed brilliantly from India’s side.
India gave a target of 168
Australia won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, India scored 167/8 in 20 overs. Shubhman Gill played a brilliant inning of 46 runs in 39 balls. Abhishek Sharma played quick innings of 28 runs, Shivam Dubey scored 22 runs and captain Suryakumar Yadav scored 20 runs. Akshar Patel (21 runs in 11 balls) and Washington Sundar (12) added important strikes in the end to take the team to a respectable score.
For Australia, Nathan Ellis and Adam Zampa took 3 wickets each.
Australia piled up in front of beautiful letters
In reply, the Australian team, which came to bat, was completely defeated by the Indian bowlers. The host team was all out for just 119 runs. Mitchell Marsh scored 30 runs, while Matthew Short contributed 25 runs.
Indian bowlers performed brilliantly. Akshar Patel took 2 wickets for 20 runs in 4 overs and became the man of the match. Shivam Dubey also took two important wickets. Whereas, Washington Sundar took 3 wickets in 1.2 overs. Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty and Jasprit Bumrah also stopped Australia’s innings by taking wickets and won the match by 48 runs.
