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A Mitchell Starc masterclass and a T20-style knock from Mitchell Marsh have lifted Australia to a crushing 10-wicket ODI victory over India in a match that lasted simply 37 overs.
Starc claimed 5-53 off eight overs in Sunday’s conflict in Vizag to assist skittle India for a paltry 117 in 26 overs.
In reply, Marsh cracked six sixes and 6 fours on the way in which to posting 66 not out off 36 balls, with Travis Head (51 not out off 30 balls) a useful ally.
Australia reached the victory goal in simply 11 overs, which means it grew to become its third largest ODI victory by way of overs to spare.
The Australian report stays the 42.1 overs it needed to spare in a nine-wicket win over the USA in Southampton in 2004, when the victory goal was simply 66.
Sunday’s end result leveled the three-match collection at 1-1 heading into Wednesday’s finale in Chennai.
“It was a fast one – 37 overs for the sport. You do not see that too usually,” Australian stand-in captain Steve Smith mentioned.
“I believed our bowlers have been excellent. Mitchell Starc specifically with the brand new ball, swinging it again down the road.”
Marsh solely opened within the first two matches as a result of absence of David Warner, who’s nursing a corked quad however could return on Wednesday.
Marsh scored 81 off 65 balls in Friday’s five-wicket loss to India, and he continued to bludgeon India’s assault in sport two.
His sizzling type as a fill-in opener has given Australia meals for thought forward of this 12 months’s World Cup in India.
“It was a little bit of enjoyable,” Marsh mentioned of the win.
The spotlight of Sunday’s match belonged to Smith, who dived full size to his proper at first slip to tug off a shocking one-handed catch to ship Hardik Pandya packing for one.
Smith was within the air and horizontal when he took the catch, and he was mobbed by his teammates within the aftermath.
“I do not find out about catch of the century,” Smith mentioned with fun.
“It was good that I held on right this moment. I had a few alternatives final sport that have been fairly comparable, and so they have been simply out of attain. I could not get my palms round them.
“I used to be lucky I used to be ready to do this right this moment.”
Though Marsh and Head supplied the fireworks with the bat, it was Starc who arrange the win with a blistering show of tempo and swing.
The left-armer began the destruction within the opening over by tempting Shubman Gill (0) right into a free shot.
Smith gave Starc his second wicket with a juggling effort at slip to dismiss Rohit Sharma for 13.
And when Suryakumar Yadav was dismissed lbw by Starc for a golden duck for the second straight match, the Australian tempo ace was on a hat-trick.
KL Rahul blocked out the hat-trick ball however was trapped in entrance by Starc a short while later, decreasing India to 4-48.
Smith’s stunner at slip – off the bowling of Sean Abbott – made it 5-49, and Nathan Ellis snared the prized scalps of Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja (16) as India crashed to 7-91 within the 20th over.
Starc was struck for consecutive sixes by Axar Patel when he returned for one more spell however completed the innings by bowling Mohammed Siraj.
Solely Waqar Younis (13) and Muttiah Muralitharan (10) have extra five-wicket hauls in ODI cricket than Starc’s 9.
“I really feel like my rhythm has been fairly good for just a few weeks now,” Starc mentioned.
“And the final couple of nights I’ve acquired the ball to form within the air and do some bit off the wicket. It is feeling in a very good place, and hopefully it can proceed.”
Abbott (3-23) and Nathan Ellis (2-13) produced useful cameos.
It was India’s third-lowest ODI whole towards Australia, behind 63 on the SCG in 1981, and 100 additionally in Sydney in 2000.
It was additionally India’s fourth lowest whole in ODIs in India towards all comers.
Most ODI five-wicket hauls
*Waqar Younis (13 in 262 matches)
*Muttiah Muralitharan (10 in 350 matches)
*Mitchell Starc (9 in 109 matches)
*Brett Lee (9 in 221 matches)
* Shahid Afridi (9 in 398 matches).
Largest ODI wins for Australia
- 42.1 overs v USA in Southampton, 2004
- 40.Four overs v West Indies in Perth, 2013
- 39 overs v India in Vizag, 2023.
-AAP
