For India
India lost T20I series against Australia by a margin of 2-0. This series loss was the first bilateral series loss for Virat Kohli in India. KL Rahul was the leading run scorer for India in this T20I Series as he scored 97 runs in which he scored 1 half century and the skipper Virat Kohli scored 96 runs in this T20I Series in which he scored 1 half century.India’s batting lineup is too much dependent on the services of Virat Kohli and whenever Virat Kohli fails or departs the team’s run rate decreases. With the T20 World cup being 1 year away India need to find a stabled middle order that can contribute and play cameos.
In the bowling department of India Jasprit bumrah took 3 wickets and his spell in the first match of the T20I Series was spell bounding. In the power play over and in the death overs team India is reliable only on Jasprit bumrah and the other bowlers don’t pick up wickets at regular intervals and create pressure. India’s pace attack looks decent with Bumrah but the spinners need to maintain the pressure and if they can do that then wickets would definitely come.
For Australia
Australia won the first bilateral T20I series against India by doing a clean sweep of 2-0. Australia won their first bilateral T20i series in India under the captaincy of Aaron Finch. Glenn Maxwell who is often known to be as “Big Show” scored 169 runs in the T20I Series in which he scored 1 centuty and 1 half century. Glenn Maxwell made a statement that he is still one of the Best batsman in the T20I’s. It was the Maxwell factor which Australia possessed and he was well supported by D Arcy Short who scored 77 runs. Even in the absence of Steve Smith and David Warner Australia created history by defeating India and this clearly indicates that Australia have a good depth in their batting line up.
In the bowling department of Australia Nathan Coulter Nile took 4 wickets and whenever Aaron Finch needed a wicket he gave the ball to Nathan Coulter Nile and he delivered for the team. Australia won the bilateral T20I Series in the absence of the lightning fast bowler Mitchell Starc and this is a huge positive for Australia and this tells that Australia have a tremendous amount of good bench strength in the form of Jhye Richardson and Jason Behrendorff.
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