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Australia tour of India, 2023

ODIs

3rd ODI, Indore: India wins

Gaurav Gupta, January 25, 2023: The Times of India

Scoreboard- Australia vs India, 2022- 3rd ODI, Indore
From: Gaurav Gupta, January 25, 2023: The Times of India


Indore : On Monday morning, some of the Indian players visited the Mahakaleshwar temple in nearby Ujjain to pray for Rishabh Pant’s fast recovery. Perhaps they should also have prayed for some mercy for the Kiwi bowlers, who have been found wanting on this tour.


India’s openers were simply on fire, with Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill slamming superb centuries to pulverize a clueless New Zealand attack on a belter at the Holkar Stadium in the third ODI.

Their 212-run opening stand in just 157 balls was India’s highest partnership for the first wicket against the Kiwis in ODIs. With Rohit and Gill destoying the bowling after being put in to bat, at one point it even seemed India could scale ‘Mount 500’ for the first time in ODIs. A mini-collapse, though, slowed them down, before a typically belligerent half-century by the explosive Hardik Pandya (54; 38b, 3x4, 3x6), and his 54-run alliance in 34 balls for the seventh wicket with Shardul Thakur (25 off 17 balls), took India to 385/9.


Showing why he is rated among the top openers in world cricket, Devon Conway then cracked a brilliant 138, getting to three figures off just 71 balls. But India, spearheaded by a Shardul Thakur burst (3/45 in 6 overs), managed to bowl out New Zealand for 295 in 41. 2 overs.


Having won all the six ODIs it has played at this venue, India can claim that the Holkar Stadium, a high-scoring venue, is its fortress.

The convincing 90-run victory helped India regain the No. 1 ranking in ODIs as the hosts pulled off a 3-0 clean sweep. The T20I leg begins in Ranchi.

With India resting regular pacers Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj, Pandya provided India with the perfect start when he had Finn Allen playing the ball on to his stumps for a two-ball duck. Conway, however, kept the Kiwis in the hunt, adding 106 off 87 balls for the second wicket with Henry Nicholls (42 off 40 balls), and then 78 for the third wicket with Daryl Mitchell (24).

Thakur stepped up at the right time, ripping the heart out of New Zealand’s innings when he dismissed Mitchell, skipper Tom Latham and Glen Phillips in quick succession. When Conway hit Umran Malik straight to Rohit at mid-wicket, and the dangerous Michael Bracewell (26) was stumped off a wide down the legside off Kuldeep Yadav (3-62), the game was done and dusted. On the eve of the match, India coach Rahul Dravid had joked that as soon as they landed in Indore, all the bowlers shied away from bowling on the flat pitch here. The small ground adds to the bowlers’ woes. India’s innings, incidentally, included 33 fours and a record 19 sixes.

India’s momentum was broken when Rohit, going for another big one, was bowled by Michael Bracewell, and Gill was caught at point while mistiming a cut off Blair Tickner. Ishan Kishan (17) sacrificed his wicket for Kohli and was run out, Virat Kohli (36 off 27 balls) spooned Duffy to mid-off, while Suryakumar Yadav (14) mistimed his trademark flick to long on to Duffy as well. However, Pandya’s strong forehands, resembling that of a tennis player, fetched him a few sixes. With Thakur chipping in with little cameo, India were back on the fast track.

It will take a while for the Kiwi bowlers to erase this brutal hammering. Playing just his third ODI, Jacob Duffy picked up three wickets but ended up conceding 100 in his 10 overs. Blair Tickner too took three but his 10 over quota went for 76.

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