Seven Teams T20 Series
FINALS
INDIA vs AUSTRALIA
The day has come for which the fans were awaiting for. Seven Teams started the tournament with one goal. Three teams sent back home by four toppers before they could reach the knock out stage. Two teams were eliminated by the other two and sealed their place in the Finals.
And these two teams were ready for a battle to lift the trophy.
Dhoni and Smith came to the middle for the toss with the big cheers from the crowd. Any team would bowl first in this as the pitch is very favourable for the pacers.
Dhoni won the toss and without any hesitation elected to bowl first. Warner and Finch came down to open the innings for Australia. Ishant Sharma ready with the ball to bowl the first over.
Warner took the first run of the match and gave strike to Finch. This is when it became clear that this gonna be another day in paradise for the Indian bowlers. Aaron Finch wanted to attack the pacers but gave away his wicket in the very first ball he faced.
Captain Steven Smith came to the middle in the first over itself which he wouldn't have expected at all. Indian bowlers capitalised the set back of Australia and made it tough for them to score runs freely. David Warner was sent to join Finch in the pavilion very quickly.
Steven Smith was not in his form at all in this tournament and haven't scored any big runs recently. This match is also not an exception for that.
Indian bowlers continued their wicket hunt without any trouble from Australian batting line up. George Bailey, Mitchel Marsh, Mathew Wade also wanted to join the party in the very quickly. Australia lost more than half of their side just for 59 Runs.
Glenn Maxwell played some classy strokes but couldn't play a long innings and got out when he reached 37 Runs.
All eyes were on Josh Hazlewood who played a brilliant innings against England in the semi finals. He joined James Faulkner when Australia was struggling at 99 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.
Indian bowlers managed to keep him quiet till the end and restricted Aussies for 128 for 8 in 20 overs.
Rohit Sharma and Sheker Dhawan opened the innings for Innings with not a big target to chase. First over Samson (Starc) sent Dhawan for a duck in the first without giving any runs in that over.
Rohit Sharma joined with Yuvraj moved the score to 30 and gave his wicket away for an inside edge on to the stumps.
Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh did their regular job once again scoring another 50 Runs partnership in this series.
There was a competition going on between these two as to who is gonna the half century first. Virat lost his wicket in this competition and missed his half century by 5 Runs.
Yuvraj completed his half century and went back to pavilion after 54 Runs.
Ravindra Jadeja scored the winning runs of the tournament and Dhoni lifted the trophy because of the brilliant performance by his team with both and ball all through the season.
CHAMPIONS
It was a nice little tournament to play. Thank you everyone. This is Jerry signing off. I will see you in my next competition
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