Australia’s Hazlewood humbles India in second T20 ahead of World Cup

Australia bushed India by 4 wickets with 6.4 overs to spare successful ascendant show successful 2nd T20 of five-game series.

A Josh Hazlewood masterclass with the shot and a batting blitz by Mitchell Marsh carried Australia to a ascendant four-wicket win successful the 2nd T20I against India astatine the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Fast bowler Hazlewood took 3-13 and racked up 15 dot balls successful a devastating opening spell connected Friday arsenic Australia bowled retired India for 125 successful beforehand of a assemblage of 82,438 astatine the sporting colosseum.

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Captain Marsh smashed 46 disconnected 26 balls and shared successful a 51-run opening concern with Travis Head earlier the hosts reeled successful the humble full with 40 balls to spare.

With the series-opener successful Canberra washed retired by rainfall connected Wednesday, Australia volition instrumentality a 1-0 pb successful the five-match bid into the 3rd crippled successful Hobart connected Sunday.

India opener Abhishek Sharma top-scored with 68 disconnected 37 balls, further enhancing his burgeoning estimation with a good archetypal 50 connected Australian soil.

However, helium was 1 of lone 2 India batters to scope treble figures connected a lively transportation that offered gait and question disconnected the seam.

With Marsh winning the flip and electing to field, Hazlewood had Shubman Gill fixed retired lbw connected the archetypal ball.

While the determination was overturned connected review, Hazlewood followed up with a abbreviated shot that crashed into the crest of Gill’s helmet.

A shook-up Gill slogged Hazlewood to beryllium caught for five, triggering a top-order collapse.

Hazlewood removed Suryakumar Yadav for one, the skipper’s 4th single-digit people successful six matches, earlier dismissing Tilak Varma for a duck 2 balls aboriginal with a top-edge caught by wicketkeeper Inglis.

By the extremity of Hazlewood’s four-over spell, India were successful immense occupation astatine 32 for four.

“The shot feels similar it’s coming retired truly nicely astatine the infinitesimal successful immoderate format I’m turning up and playing,” said man-of-the-match Hazlewood.

“It was conscionable enactment the shot successful the close areas, don’t effort excessively overmuch and spot what happens.”

Sharma made a agleam commencement amid the Hazlewood onslaught, smashing 14 runs disconnected paceman Xavier Bartlett (2-39) successful the archetypal implicit helium faced.

He and Harshit Rana (35) combined successful a 56-run basal for the sixth wicket to prevention India from embarrassment.

But Bartlett recovered good from his bruising aboriginal spell, dismissing Rana and Shivam Dube (4) successful speedy succession, the second brilliantly pouched by a diving Inglis.

Another crisp drawback successful adjacent by Sean Abbott saw Kuldeep Yadav depart for nought earlier Nathan Ellis (2-21) dismissed Abhishek lbw, ending India’s hopes of a decent total.