🏏India vs Australia, 5th T20I: Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru 🏏 - Page 13

IND: 160-8 after 20 overs

Bala: "In the 7 completed T20I on this ground, only once the batting first team have won, India against Bangladesh after scoring 146 won by 1 run. "

India have done well to get to 160 on a slow tacky pitch. 45 off the last four overs and 26 off the last two. Shreyas Iyer held the innings and then opened out at the end. Earlier Jaiswal looked threatening but fell to a short of length delivery trying to pull and then a steady flow of wickets followed. Failures for SKY and Rinku put India in a spot of bother but Jitesh and Shreyas strung a stand before Axar came out and played a superb knock. Shreyas was not hitting sixers for fun against the spinners but chose the right ball to go after. The Aussies realised the pitch was slow and went with a lot of cutters. We have seen in the series that Australia have struggled against spin. Should be an interesting chase. Back for it in 5 minutes...

Tanveer Sangha: It's had a bit of tackiness in it and if you hit your lengths, it's tough to get it off the square. Good pitch for spinners. The main thing for any wrist spinner is consistency. Every spinner if he can control his length can be very successful in India. [Drift] That's massive, especially to left-handers. The more I can get outside the hitting line, it's harder for them, especially on such pitches. There is more risk for them. Bringing out their hitting lines was one of the talking points. Was trying to hit the stumps to the righties.

Tanveer Sangha in this series:

First three matches: 2/123 in 12 overs, ER: 10.25

Last two matches: 3/56 in 8 overs, ER: 7

Most wickets for Australia vs India in T20Is

13 - Jason Behrendorff

12 - Adam Zampa

10 - Shane Watson

8 - Nathan Coulter-Nile

7 - Nathan Ellis

India innings progression

Overs 1-4: 33/1 (RR: 8.25)

Overs 5-10: 28/3 (RR: 4.26)

Overs 11-20: 99/4 (RR: 9.9)

Only two T20Is have been won by the team batting first in seven completed matches in Bengaluru before today; both by India, who defended 146/7 against Bangladesh at the T20 WC 2016 and 202/6 against England in 2017.

0.1 Arshdeep Singh to Head, FOUR, to deep extra cover

Head and Philippe are at the crease. Head is on strike. Arshdeep Singh will open the attack

Aagaya headache dene

Originally posted by: Rosyme

Shreyas was playing at better strike rate n world cup ODi than T20.

Maybe with RS and VK he was more confident

Wicket gir gaye isliye

he was playing safely