India vs Australia 4th T20I Live Score: India\’s ambitions of sealing the series were bludgeoned by a Glenn Maxwell tsunami the other night in Guwahati, but the Boys in Blue are back again, rejuvenated and energised for the fourth match of the series against a very-different looking Australia. The reigning ODI World Champions have released as many as six players from their squad – Maxwell included – and brought in some young blood, pretty much like their Indian counterparts, but don\’t for a moment think it\’ll make India\’s job any less challenging, who are up 2-1 and searching for a win that will do the confidence of this bunch of youngsters a world of good.
Under Suryakumar Yadav, this emerging Indian team has been nothing short of sensational. Thrice in three matches have their batters posted a total in excess of 200, which is no mean feat. In the second at Thiruvananthapuram, they even defended a mammoth 235 by 35 runs, but weren\’t a second time lucky two nights ago. Maxwell, continuing his rich vein of form, smoked a 48-ball century to take Australia home in a last-ball thriller. India felt the void of Mukesh Kumar, who in the first ODI had conceded just 5 in the final over, as Prasidh Krishna and Arshdeep Singh were in for a severe beating. Both pacers combined to leak 112 runs from eight overs, and the outcome of the match was sealed.
But for tonight, Mukesh is back. Granted a leave for his wedding, the India quick will once again lead the attack, giving Prasidh some breathing room. With most of these players embarking on their journey to South Africa to play the respective format series, finishing against the Aussies on a high and a winning note would be high on their agenda. Especially the batters, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad, who have done justice to the wealth of talent they possess. With their emergence, along with the presence of Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh and the guiding light of Suryakumar Yadav, India\’s T20I batting depth appears scary good.
As for Australia, among the six players to be released are Maxwell, Josh Inglish, Steve Smith, Adam Zampa and Marcus Stoinis, all of whom have been a thorn in their eyes. The reason behind the decision to let them go is believed to be the upcoming Test series against Pakistan, for which some of the guys need a break following a near-two-month long and gruelling World Cup. Youngsters Josh Phillippe, Ben McDermott, Ben Dwarshuis and Chris Green would be eager to make a mark.
Another run fest is on the cards at Raipur\’s Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium. In a series where already 123 fours and 65 sixes have been clubbed, expect a few more tonight. In the only international match played at this venue, India beat New Zealand in an ODI by 8 wickets, first dismissing the Kiwis for 108 and then chasing it down with 179 balls to spare. Expect nothing similar tonight though as with the T20 World Cup set to go on the floors in six months\’ time from now, India and Australia would be eyeing respective gains.
Here are some highlights around IND vs AUS 4th T20I:
– Matthew Wade won the toss and put India to bat first
– Australia have made five changes while India have made four
– Among the prominent changes for India are Shreyas Iye returning for Tilak Varma and Jitesh Sharma replacing Ishan Kishan
– India lead the five-match series 2-1, having lost the third T20I thanks to a sensational century from Glenn Maxwell
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:05 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Early scare for Jaiswal!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Big shout for LBW off the last ball of the first over. Umpire turns it down and Wade goes upstairs. The Aussies look very confident. Jaiswal is saved by the fact that the ball had pitched outside leg. The batters ran a leg bye off that ball and that is the only run in that over. That makes it a maiden.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:59 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The players are out!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Yashasvi Jaiswal is facing up, Ruturaj Gaikwad at the other end. Aaron Hadie is opening the bowling for Australia.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:52 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Deepak Chahar talks
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: He has got the short end of the stick as far as injuries are concerned but he is back today. Chahar says that he took a break after the IPL and \”made a lot of changes in my lifestyle, training and bowling as well.\”
\”I just played two games of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, playing more cricket, working on my mobility and everything. It\’s all about pressure in international cricket, and even in the IPL, and I feel I handle that well,\” he said. Chahar says that he wants to continue the rhythm he is in right now. Bowling in the powerplay is the toughest phase, he says, because there are just two fielders out and the ball is also hard. \”Bowling later I find it easier because the ball is softer and the field is spread out. My role in CSK was different and primary of new-ball bowler which is also changing now, and for India I\’ve bowled in all phases. In South Africa the conditions are more favourable for bowlers and length is very important because of the bounce,\” he said.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:47 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: SKY\’s thoughts
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Suryakumar admits that India would have liked to chase as well but the batting unit is firing well so he has nothing to complain. \”1st T20I here, let\’s see how it goes, very excited. 4 changes for us – Mukesh comes in for Prasidh, Deepak Chahar comes in for Arshdeep, Shreyas replaces Tilak and there is one more change,\” he says.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:46 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: What Matthew Wade
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: He credits the bench strength of the team and the selectors to make sure that the new players are all up and ready to play. \”Credit to the selectors and the coaching staff – they made the decision to send the WC guys back home, it gives an exciting opportunity to the guys coming in,\” he said.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:41 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Australia XI
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Josh Philippe, Travis Head, Ben McDermott, Aaron Hardie, Tim David, Matthew Short, Matthew Wade(w/c), Ben Dwarshuis, Chris Green, Jason Behrendorff, Tanveer Sangha
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:40 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India XI
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:34 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: FIVE changes for Australia, FOUR changes for India
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: A lot of shuffling of cards for both sides today. Stoinis, Maxwell and Richardson are among those out for Australia. India do bring in Shreyas Iyer and they have also left out Ishan Kishan and Jitesh Sharma gets a nod. He will be playing his fourth T20I today.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:31 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: TOSS ALERT!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Australia have won the toss and Matthew Wade says that they will bowl first.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:25 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: What the pitch looks like
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The pitch looks like a hard one with a layer of grass. Murali Karthik says that dew could form from 6.30pm, which means right now, and will settle properly after 8pm.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:14 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The last international game in Raipur
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: In the ODI played between India and New Zealand in January, the only international game to ever be played at this venue, the grassy pitch led to some tennis-ball bounce and lateral movement which India\’s pacers exploited to the full. In fact, New Zealand had been reduced to 15/5 at omne point. The big boundaries here is something that spinners can work with today but there really hasn\’t been enough top level cricket here to say much else.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:00 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India\’s predicted XI
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: So how will India line up today? Well they normally don\’t really go for changes unless the series has already been decided. But then the return of Shreyas Iyer could change that. Read more here.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:56 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Shreyas Iyer to return?
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Shreyas Iyer sat out the first three games of this series. He is now back in the squad and if he does come in, India may have to bench someone from the middle order, possibly Tilak Varma.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:42 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Another high scorer on the cards?
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India have conceded truckloads of runs in the death overs in all three T20Is that they have played but so have Australia. The only this indicates really is the fact that the wickets have been batting paradises thus far. Raipur purportedly had the biggest boundaries in Asia in the run up to the only ODI that was played here in January. One can be sure that those ropes would be significantly pushed in for this.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:28 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India\’s upcoming assignment
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The last match of this series is scheduled to be played on Sunday and after that, the unrelenting, unstoppable behemoth that is the Indian cricket team\’s schedule takes the players to South Africa where they play three T20Is from December 10 to 14, three ODIs from December 17 to 21 and two Test matches starting on December 26 and January 3.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:15 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Of diamonds and runs for Gaikwad
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Ruturaj Gaikwad was gone for a diamond duck, being run out due to a terrible mix-up with Yashasvi Jaiswal in the first match. Since then, though, he has gone on to score 181 runs and is the highest scorer in the series.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:02 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Rohit Sharma for T20 World Cup 2024?
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The other aspect of the behind-the-scenes drama in Indian cricket at the moment swirls around Rohit Sharma. Now reports state that the BCCI wanted him to be captain of the Indian team for the T20I series against South Africa but he is not included in the squad that the board eventually announced. You can read more about that here.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:52 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: ABD on Kohli
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli know each other quite well, to say the least. They have spent years and years as the heart and soul of RCB and their encounters were quite interesting whenever India met South Africa in any format. He had his say on Kohli potentially taking a step back from white ball international cricket and more in a freewheeling chat with our own Aditya Bhattacharya. You can feast on that interaction by clicking right here.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:38 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Some big changes in store for Australia
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Steve Smith and Adam Zampa flew back home before the third match of the series and now Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis have followed suit. Inglis and Maxwell have been especially vital with the bat for Australia at various points in this series. Stoinis may have looked out of touch with the bat but he has been quite integral as a bowler. Australia are hence going to look quite a different side today.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:29 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Will Kohli or won\’t Kohli
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: This series has a bit of a peculiar, low-key feel to it considering it is happening so close to the end of the World Cup. But there is no dearth of drama behind the scenes as far as Indian cricket is concerned. Among the biggest aspects of it is Virat Kohli telling the BCCI that he won\’t be playing in the white-ball leg of India\’s upcoming tour of South Africa. In fact, reports state that he has told the board of taking an indefinite break from white-ball international cricket altogether. He is 35 as well and so this begs the question, have we seen the last of Virat Kohli in coloured clothing for India?
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:22 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The Big Show in Guwahati
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: If a bowler concedes 30 runs in an over, that normally would mean a bad day for them regardless of what they do in the rest of the match. But Glenn Maxwell ended up getting a player of the match award in the third T20I. And that is because he then powered the turbo-charged Australian chase of he ended up smashing an unbeaten 104 in 48 balls. He went 6, 4, 4, 4 off the last four balls of the match. He was returning to Australia after that match and he said goodbye India in the most extraordinary fashion.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:02 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: This is the 50th venue to have hosted an international cricket match in India. Just once has an international match been hosted here though and that was in January this year. That was an ODI between New Zealand and India. New Zealand were all out for 108 with Mohammed Shami taking three wickets for 18 runs. Rohit Sharma then scored a century as India won the match by eight wickets.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:46 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Jason Behrendorff\’s series
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: While this has been a sensationally high-scoring series, Jason Behrendorff has pretty much towered above the rest. He has conceded just 37 runs in eight overs in this series with two wickets.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:31 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: 200-plus totals all the way
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Just once in this series has either of these two teams not scored over 200 runs in an innings. That was when Australia failed to chase a target of 236 in the second T20I and were restricted to a total of 191/9. In the third T20I Australia chased down a target of 223 thanks to a Glenn Maxwell special in Guwahati. This series has not been one for the bowlers thus far.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:17 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Australia full squad
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Travis Head, Matthew Short, Aaron Hardie, Ben McDermott, Matthew Wade(w/c), Tim David, Chris Green, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jason Behrendorff, Tanveer Sangha, Kane Richardson, Josh Philippe
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:17 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: India full squad
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Deepak Chahar, Shreyas Iyer, Jitesh Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:10 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: As does Shreyas Iyer!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Set to be part of the squad from the fourth T20I, Shreyas Iyer\’s return to the already impressive batting line up comes as a big positive. And yet, at the same time, might throw a spanner in the team combinations. The current middle order featuring Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Riku Singh and Axar Patel is doing a good job, and Iyer\’s return promises to disturb the combination. With Iyer poised to reclaim his spot in the XI, Tilak might unfortunately find himself on the sidelines. However, it\’s worth noting that if he can replicate the stellar form he displayed at the World Cup, effortlessly launching sixes, it might pose a pleasant selection dilemma for India.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:00 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: Mukesh Kumar returns!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: He has played 11 matches for India this far but Mukesh Kumar\’s absence was felt deeply by India in the last T20I. Still in his early days, Mukesh appeared to be two steps ahead of the opposition\’s batters, as figures of 0/29 and 1/43 proved in the first two T20Is, but without him, it was almost as if the Indian bowling crumbled. The pace trio of Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan were rendered ineffective by the Australians, while spinners Ravi Bishnoi and Axar Patel were carted to all parts of the ground. Out due to his wedding, Mukesh\’s return promises to bolster this still-very-young Indian pace attack.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:50 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: No BIG SHOW tonight!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: In case you haven\’t been up to date, Glenn Maxwell will not be playing today\’s T20I against India on the account of being released by the squad. He, along with five more players, has been let go as they were on the road non-stop. They landed in India 12 days before the World Cup, played the biggest tournament for two months, won the Cup and even took part in the first three T20Is. Hence, the likes of Maxwell, Adam Zampa, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis and Steve Smith have been granted a much-needed break, paving the way for youngsters Josh Phillippe, Ben McDermott, Ben Dwarshuis and Chris Green to make some heads turn.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:40 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The story of IND vs AUS so far in this series
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: The first three matches of the ongoing series between IND and AUS have already been so memorable. From India racking up a hat-trick of 200-plus totals to Suryakumar Yadav doing his thing in T20s to Glenn Maxwell crashing the party for the hosts, there has been no shortage of entertainment or drama thus far. And tonight promises to be no different. With both teams fielding a bunch of energetic and promising youngsters, tonight\’s contest is a sneak-peek of what India and Australia\’s team combinations could look like in the future – as quickly as the T20 World Cup next year. Over 120 fours have been hit and over 60 sixes smashed. As Ravi Shastri says, runs have been flowing thick and fast and if the conditions are expected to stay true, it will continue to rain runs tonight.
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Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:30 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: HOLA!
India vs Australia Live Score, IND vs AUS T20 Series: And we\’re back! Two days after Glenn Maxwell played another innings of his life, India are up and ready to brush aside the disappointment of Guwahati and wrap up the series here in Raipur. In order to stay alive though, Australia are wearing a new look with as many as six players back home. Like India, there is no shortage of youngsters in the Australian camp and tonight\’s contest will give a fair indication that which of the two teams is more prepared to handle pressure. In a tournament, where big totals have become a norm, who among India or Australia, will land the latest blow. Will India take the series, or Australia live to fight another day? Stay tuned. Another run-fest awaits.