steve smith, IND vs AUS: ‘The reason for our defeat’…Jadeja, no Rahul: It was a bad incident..Smith is brilliant! – ind vs aus 1st odi we werent able to get a partnership says steve smith

The Australian team that has come to India is currently participating in a three-match ODI series. In the first match which started at Wankhede, the Indian team won the toss and elected to bowl first.

Aussie innings:

Only opener Mitchell Marsh scored 81 (65) in the Australian team who came out first. In the middle overs, the balls came slowly and the ball did not have enough bounce, and the Australian batsmen were dismissed successively and gave a shock.

Travis Head 5 (10), Smith 22 (30), Jos Inglis 26 (27) did not score big. As a result, the Australian team scored 188/10 in 35.4 overs and lost the game. Shami (3/17), Siraj (3/29) took three wickets each and Jadeja took 2/46.

Indian Innings:

In the Indian team chasing the target, none of the first row players performed well. Ishan Kishan 3 (8), Shubman Gill 20 (31), Kohli 4 (9), Suryakumar Yadav 0 (1) lost successive wickets.

Next, Hardik Pandya also didn’t do well with 25 (31). Thus, when the Indian team was in crisis at 83/5, KL Rahul 75 (91) and Ravindra Jadeja 45 (69) formed a mega partnership. In the end, India scored 191/5 in 39.5 overs and won by 5 wickets.

Smith Interview:

Australian captain Steve Smith gave an interview after the match defeat. It said, “We never expected this to happen at the Wankhede stadium. You can usually score well here. But, this time the Indian bowlers performed well. If he had scored 250 runs, the chances of victory would have been brighter. Because the ball had good swing and speed.”

“Jadeja and KL Rahul both formed a great partnership and were amazing. We started the batting really well. Mitchell Marsh did a great job. After him, we started losing wickets one after another. Not even a great partnership was formed. Failure is the most important reason for this,” he said.