India vs Australia Live Score Updates, 2nd T20: India give 236 runs target for AUS to chase

India vs Australia Live: Nathan Ellis brought back into the attack. This time Ruturaj welcomes Ellis with a WHOPPING SIX, but gets dismissed on the next ball as he was taken at long-on by Tim David. Tilak Verma comes in as new batter and opens his account with a SIX on the third ball of over at deep point. Rinku hist a boundary on the fifth delivery as he helps the ball pass the wicketkeeper. India scored 235/4 runs in 20 overs. This is India\’s highest T20I score against Australia. Now, Australia need 236 to win in 20 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Sean Abbott continues his attack with Ruturaj Gaikwad and Rinku Singh are on crease. Rinku Singh hits a boundary on the fouth delivery as he pulls to deep midwicket. MAGICAL!! This time Rinku deposited the low full toss over the bowler\’s head on the third delivery. With this, 200-up for India. Following this, Rinku hits two consecutive boundaries on the 4th and 5th delivery. WHAT A PLAYER!! Rinku finishes the over with a WHOPPING SIX again over deep midwicket. 25 runs came from this over. India scored 215/3 runs in 19 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Nathan Ellis brought back into the attack. Ruturaj completes his third half century off 39 balls. Wicket!! SKY OUT on the fourth delivery by Nathan Ellis as Stoinis takes the catch. Rinku Singh is the new batter. India at 190/3 in 18 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Adam Zampa continues his attack, as Suryakumar Yadav and Ruturaj Gaikwad are on crease. CLASSIC over the sky by SKY over the sightscreen on the fourth delivery. India at 183/2 in 16 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Marcus Stoinis continues his attack, and this time dismisses Ishan Kishan(52) on the second delivery. Skipper Suryakumar Yadav enters crease and opens with his a WHOPPING SIX. India scored 173/2 runs in 16 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Tanveer Sangha continues his attack as Rituraj Gaikwad and Ishan Kishan are on crease. Kishan welcome Sangha with a HUGE SIX obver fine leg. With this, India complete 150-runs mark in 14.1 overs (86 balls). BEAUTY!! Kishan hits another HUGE SIX on the fourth delivery and with this, half century comes up for him. India scored 164/1 runs in 15 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Glenn Maxwell brought back into the attack, with Gaikwad and Kishan on crease. WHAT A HIT!! Kishan smashes a HUGE SIX over the bowler\’s head on second delivery and then swept the next ball to the right of short fine leg. WHOOPS!! Now Gaikwad hits a BIG SIX on the fifth delivery over long-on. India scored 147/1 runs in 14 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Tanveer Sangha continues his attack as Rituraj Gaikwad and Ishan Kishan are on crease. Kishan smashes the last ball for a boundary. India scored 124/1 runs in 13 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Marcus Stoinis brought back into attack as as Ishan Kishan and Ruturaj Gaikwad are on crease. WHOOOOOPPPSS!! Kishan sends the third ball for a HUGE SIX over deep midwicket. India scored 116/1 runs in 12 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Adam Zampa continues his attack, as Ishan Kishan and Ruturaj Gaikwad are on crease. India scored 106/1 runs in 11 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Sean Abbott continues his attack as Ishan Kishan and Ruturaj Gaikwad are on crease. 100-up for India in 9.5 overs (59 balls). India scored 101/1 runs in 10 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Tanveer Sangha continues his attack as Rituraj Gaikwad and Ishan Kishan are on crease. India scored 94/1 runs in 9 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Adam Zampa continues his attack and welcomed with a boundary by Ishan Kishan on the very first delivery as his clubs this down the ground. India scored 89/1 runs in 8 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Tanveer Sangha introduced as new bowler as Rituraj Gaikwad and Ishan Kishan are on crease. India scored 81/1 runs in 7 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Nathan Ellis brought back into the attack as as Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad open are on crease. Jaiswal flashes the second ball to deep point for a boundary. Another boundary, this time to deep square leg. GENIOUS!!! Jaiswal hits a hat-trick of boundaries and with this completes his 2nd T20I half-century. WICKET!! Jaiswal OUT. Zampa dimisses Jaiswal (53) on the 5th delivery as the Indian batter was caught at short third by Ellis. Ishan Kishan is the new batter. India scored 77/1 runs in 6 overs.

India vs Australia Live: After an expensive over by Sean Abbott, Adam Zampa has been introduced into the attack and welcomed with a boundary by Rituraj Gaikwad on the very first delivery. Jaiswal whips wide of long-on for a boundary on the fourth delivery. India scored 62/0 runs in 5 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Sean Abbott introduced as new bowler and welcomed with three boundaries on the first second and third deliveries. WOOPS!!! On the fourth delivery, Jasiwal hits consecutive HUGE SIXes over deep square leg on on the fourth and fifth delivery. With this, 50-up for India. India scored 52/0 runs in 4 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Glenn Maxwell introduced as new bowler into the attack. Jaiswal welcomes Maxwell with a boundary on the first ball and then slogs swept to deep backward square leg on the third delivery. Beauty!!! This time, Gaikwad drills one through to deep point on the last delivery. India scored 28/0 runs in 3 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Nathan Ellis delivers the second over as Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad open are on crease. India scored 13/0 runs in 2 overs.

India vs Australia Live: Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad open for India, while Marcus Stoinis opens for Australia. Gaikwad opens his innings with a boundary on the third ball. India scored 10/0 runs in first over.

India vs Australia Live: Here\’s India Playing XI

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan(wk), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Prasidh Krishna.

India vs Australia Live: Here\’s Australia Playing XI

Steven Smith, Matthew Short, Josh Inglis, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Wade(wk and c), Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Tanveer Sangha.

India vs Australia Live: Australian skipper Matthew Wade won the toss and decided to bowl first in the 2nd T20I at Thiruvananthapuram. So India will bat first. 

India vs Australia Live: Toss to take place at 6:30 pm

India vs Australia Live: Josh Inglis smashed a ton and Steven Smith chipped in with a 50-plus score as Australia piled 208/3 batting first.

India then get off to a terrible start as Ruturaj Gaikwad walked back for a diamond duck. Yashasvi Jaiswal too departed shortly. However, Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan stabilised things and Rinku Singh once again grabbed the limelight with his finishing prowess. India chased down the target with one ball to spare and won the match by two wickets.

India vs Australia Live: There is a 45% chance of rain in Thiruvananthapuram during the morning time, as per Weather.com. However, there is little possibility of rain during the evening when the match will take place. The morning rain may take away the dew factor in the evening.

The humidity will be extremely high at 88%. The temperature will be around 27-29 degrees during the match.

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India vs Australia Live: After his match-winning knock in Vizag, Rinku said, \”As for my secret to calmness, I had discussions with Mahi (Dhoni) bhai about what he does to stay calm, especially in the last over… He (Dhoni) told me to try to remain as calm as possible and try looking straight (at the bowler). That\’s how I tried to stay calm in the game,\”

\”Feeling good that we won. My only aim was to be perfect when I walked out to bat, and it felt good out there to be playing alongside Surya. I was thinking of doing what I generally do in crunch situations and was trying to stay as calm as possible,\” the left-handed batter added.

India vs Australia Live: Speaking in a video shared by BCCI, Surya said, \”As you all know, it has been 4-5 days since the World Cup finished. We are all disappointed. It felt really good seeing the support of our fans in India and across the world. I would like to say that this is a sport and it teaches us a lot. Right after the end of the game, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi met all of us in the dressing room and motivated us. He told us it is a sport, ups and downs are a part of it, you have to take it in your stride. It will take some time to get past this. It was a big thing that he came to meet us. He is our country\’s leader and he motivated us, we will try to play better in the upcoming tournaments,\”

India vs Australia Live: The Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram is known for its low-scoring games. The average T20 score here is just 114. Teams chasing (India on both occasions) have won two out of three T20Is, showing a slight advantage.

The highest run in this venue was scored by the West Indies in 2019 when they chased India’s score to make 179. Arshdeep Singh, who is a part of India’s present squad, has the best bowling figure in this stadium (3/32).

India vs Australia Live: India and Australia have played 27 T20s so far. India have won 16 of those and Australia 10. There was one match that did not produce any results. In the last 5 T20 matches between these teams, India have won 3 and Australia 2.