Thiruvananthapuram. After half-centuries by Ruturaj Gaikwad (58 runs in 43 balls), Yashasvi Jaiswal (53 runs in 25 balls) and Ishan Kishan (52 runs in 32 balls), India won the second T20 International with the strength of the bowlers led by Ravi Bishnoi. India defeated Australia by 44 runs on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. After the half-century innings of these three, Rinku Singh scored unbeaten 31 runs in nine balls with the help of four fours and two sixes. Due to which India made its highest score of 235 runs for four wickets in this format against Australia. After making its fifth highest score in T20, India restricted Australia's innings to 191 runs for nine wickets in 20 overs.
For Australia, Marcus Stoinis (45 runs in 25 balls) and Tim David (37 runs in 22 balls) increased India's problems by adding 81 runs in 38 balls for the fifth wicket, but due to both being out in consecutive overs, their chances on the match were limited. The grip became loose. Captain Matthew Wade scored unbeaten 42 runs but it was not enough for the team. For India, Bishnoi took three important wickets for 32 runs in four overs. Prasidh Krishna also took three wickets while Mukesh Kumar, Arshdeep Singh and Akshar Patel took one wicket each. Akshar gave only 25 runs in his four overs. For India, Ruturaj scored 58 runs with the help of three fours and two sixes and made a partnership of 77 runs in 35 balls with Yashasvi Jaiswal for the first wicket and 87 runs in 58 balls with Ishan for the second wicket. Jaiswal hit nine fours and two sixes while Ishan hit three fours and four sixes. For Australia, Nathan Ellis took three wickets for 45 runs in four overs.
Chasing the target, Matthew Short (19 runs in 10 balls) gave a great start to Australia by hitting four fours in the first two overs, but Ravi Bishnoi dismissed him in the third over and the previous match's centurion Josh Inglis (2 runs in four balls) in the fifth over. Run) and gave a big success to India by dismissing him.
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