Dhoni powers India to victory in Melbourne ODI, India seal series against Australia 2-1
New Delhi: In the third and final ODI at Melbourne, India defeated Australia by seven wickets on Friday and sealed the series with 2-1 victory.
Highlight of the Melbourne ODI was the stellar pair of MS Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav who powered the team to series victory against the Aussies.
Chasing 231 to win, Dhoni (87*) and Jadhav (61*) put together a 121-run partnership to take India home after the bowlers, led by Yuzvendra Chahal (6-42) dismissed Australia for just 230 in the first innings after putting them in to bat first.
Virat Kohli’s men became the first country to return from Australia without losing a single series having won the Test series 2-1 and drawn the T20 Internationals 1-1.
Dhoni’s domination over Aussies
Chasing 231, India got off to a slow start as well. Australia created some good pressure with the new ball, in particular Jhye Richardson (1-41) who tied down Rohit Sharma (9).
Dhoni’s unbeaten 87 off 114 balls was a testimony to his high quality match awareness as the street-smart Kedar Jadhav (61 no, 57 balls) donned the role of a finisher.
Dhoni performed his role to perfection with class exhibition of running between the wickets in what could well be his last match on the Australian soil.
Dhoni was lucky to be dropped on 0 and 74 but Australian bowling never had the sting to unsettle the Indian batsmen despite skipper Virat Kohli (46) being dismissed with more than 100 runs left.
Yuzvendra’s stellar show restricts Australia @ 230
Batting first, Australia set a target of 231 in the third and final ODI at Melboourne.
Indian bowlers proved skipper Virat Kohli’s decision of bowling first right and sent back both the Aussie openers back to the pavilion at the score of 27.
Peter Handscomb’s half century (58) pushed the hosts total above 200 during last power play but wickets continued to fall at the other end. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami took two wickets each. Three match ODI series is currently laveled at 1-1.
India vs New Zealand in 5 ODIs, 3 T20
After concluding Australia tour with today’s ODI, team India will travel to New Zealand to play five One-day International and three Twenty20 matches. The first ODI between India and New Zealand will be played at Napier on Wednesday.
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