2nd T20I: Australia vs India (Winner: IND)

India won by 8 wickets with 2 balls remaining (Dominance : IND 85% \| AUS 13% \| Equal 2%)
	Scorecard
Man of the Match: R Jadeja	Melbourne Cricket Ground (3 Feb 2012)

Smarting from the bug loss in the first T20, India were bound to change something and they didn’t exactly that. Not. India went in with the same team while Australia used the game to give practice to fringe players. Their plan to change the successful opening pair didn’t work out well when PK got rid of Warner and Marsh in the 3rd over as their COW dropped from 55% to 47%. Finch and Hussey out together some partnership of sorts before another double blow rocked their innings. Hussey continued with Wade as Australia reached 91/4 after 13 with 48% COW. However their innings unraveled from there on as they lost last 6 wickets for 40 runs to be bowled out for 131 in 19.4 with 40% COW. India got off to steady start before Viru hit a full toss to cover on 23 (16). Kohli and Gambhir then diffused any hopes the Aussies had of winning with a fifty stand as India closed in on 100 runs at 93/1 after 13 with 89% COW. Kohli fell for 31 but Gambhir went on to score a century and fittingly scored the winning runs as India tasted their first win by 8 wickets with 2 balls to spare.

1st Innings (Australia) - 20 overs Maximum

5 overs: AUS 39/2

AUS 53%

Australia tinkered with their opening

pair for no reason and paid the price as PK picked up Warner for 8 and Marsh for 0. 39 runs in the period stopped their COW from crashing by more than 2% to 53%.

10 overs: AUS 69/4

AUS 49%

Finch and Hussey set about rebuilding

the innings but runs came slowly and then double wicket blow saw Australia get just 30 runs in this period. This saw their COW drop by 4% to 49%.

15 overs: AUS 100/5

AUS 45%

Australia’s struggle continued as

Jadeja and Ashwin didn’t let them score and picked up Hussey too. Just 31 runs were scored in this period dropping Australia’s COW by another 4% to 45%.

19.4 overs: AUS 131/10

AUS 40%

Australia lost wickets in its attempt

to gain some momentum as a series of run outs saw them lost the last 5 wickets for just 31 more runs. Their COW dropped by 5% to 40%.

2nd Innings (India : Target 132) - 20 overs Maximum

5 overs: IND 29/0	IND 58%	India didn’t repeat the mistake
		of the tour as they batted sensibly to ensure that they don’t lose an early wicket. Just 29 runs in this period saw their COW drop by 2% to 58%.
10 overs: IND 71/1	IND 86%	Though Sehwag fell in this period,
		Kohli and Gambhir put together a stand collecting 42 runs in this period as India reached a strong position. India’s COW went up by 28% to 86%.
15 overs: IND 102/2	IND 87%	Australia pulled the scoring rate
		down in this period restricting India to 31 runs and picking up Kohli’s wicket. But that was still enough to push India’s COW up by 1% to 87%.
19.4 overs: IND 135/2	IND 100%	Gambhir went on to score a fifty and,
		along with MSD, he finished the formalities as India scored the remaining 33 runs off 28 balls to win the match by 8 wickets .

2nd T20I: Australia vs India (Winner: IND)

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