IND vs AUS

2022 - 9 - 26

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IND vs AUS: SKY opens up chase, Virat Kohli closes it (The Indian Express)

India's bowling worries persist, with Bhuvneshwar and Co. blown away in Powerplay in absence of new ball movement.

[Axar Patel](https://indianexpress.com/about/axar-patel/), who found some purchase from the strip and got a few deliveries to stop on the batsmen, consuming Josh Inglis and Matthew Wade. He even conceded a wide, but the tactic worked eventually as Green sent a steepler soaring off a thick edge to be caught by backward point running back. When Bhuvneshwar tried to swing one into him, he displayed super-fast hands, especially for such a tall man, hunkering down on the incoming delivery and flaying it over deep square leg. He appears to have the tools to become a really difficult batsman to bowl to in T20. A squirted outside edge for four by Hardik Pandya past short third man off the penultimate ball gave India the T20I series 2-1 in [Hyderabad](https://indianexpress.com/section/cities/hyderabad/), the six-wicket win sealing a fine comeback after Australia had steamrolled them in the Mohali opener. In the absence of any significant movement with the new ball,

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