Australia 211 for 6 (Green 61, Wade 45*, Axar 3-17) beat India 208 for 6 (Hardik 71*, Rahul 55, Ellis 3-30) by four wickets
Cameron Green blitzed a 26-ball half-century in his first innings as an opener in professional cricket and Matthew Wade provided the finishing kick as Australia hunted down 209 on a flat pitch in Mohali to go 1-0 up in the three-match series.
Green unleashed some Mitchell Marsh-style slog-sweeps during his 30-ball 61 to lay the platform for Australia's tall chase. Axar Patel then applied the brakes on Australia with figures of 3 for 17 in his four overs - he was the only bowler to go at under seven an over on the day - but Wade accelerated in the end overs to ice the chase, with four balls and four wickets to spare.
It was Australia's second-highest successful chase in T20I cricket. They made Jasprit Bumrah-less India pay for their lax fielding - they dropped at least three chances - and death bowling, as Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel ended with combined figures of 8-0-101-0
India stay true to their attacking approach
Although both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli fell early, India kept attacking through KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya. Rahul took on the pace of Josh Hazlewood and Green while Suryakumar picked off 22 runs off nine balls from legspinner Adam Zampa.
Rahul went on to notch up a half-century off 32 balls in the 11th over, but in the next, Hazlewood returned to dismiss him. Suryakumar unfurled some delightful pick-up shots and punches before Green found extra bounce and cut his innings short at 46 off 25 balls.
Source: https://www.espn.in/cricket/series/20934/report/1327503/india-vs-australia-1st-t20i-australia-in-india-2022
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