Steve Smith guides Australia to five wickets victory against India

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The second match was played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore and was drawn, the third match was played at Vidharba Cricket Association Ground in Nagpur which India won by 124 runs and the last match was played at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi and India won it by 337 runs. But the two batsmen ran hard between the wickets, and Rohit got the boundaries easily, his swivel-six off Paris a highlight.

On bouncy Australian tracks, the key to success is playing with soft hands and the Mumbaikar said he has exactly been doing that.

Australia got a taste of Rohit’s blazing blade especially towards the end when India scored 61 off the last five overs. He, along with Smith, went on to rebuild the Aussie innings cautiously but keep the scorecard ticking. The Indian opener looks in his elements today. India 28/0 after four overs. Dhoni tried Rohit (0-11) and Kohli (0-13) for few over but it didn’t help India get a breakthrough.

But then Steven Smith and Geroge Bailey chose to teach the Indian bowlers a lesson and started going after them. Rohit is just six runs away from half-century.

He built his innings steadily, bringing up his 50 from 63 balls, his century from 122 and his 150 from 155, mixing quick singles with some powerful boundary hitting.

Rohit’s knock was the best by an Indian while vice-captain Virat Kohli (91, 97b, 9×4, 1×6) also impressed and the duo added 207 runs for the second wicket.

India lost their opener Shikhar Dhawan (9) for 36 runs.

Australia: Steve Smith (captain), Aaron Finch, David Warner, George Bailey, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, James Faulkner, Matthew Wade (wicketkeeper), Josh Hazlewood, Joel Paris, Scott Boland.

However, that brought Kohli to the crease and signalled a long period of complete dominance over the Australian attack as he raced to the highest individual ODI score against Australia on Australian soil, eclipsing Viv Richards’ 153 not out for the West Indies in 1979.

The five-match series against India gets underway at the WACA in Perth on Tuesday and is the first bilateral ODI series to be contested between the two countries in Australia, despite this being India’s 89th 50-over game in the country.

Smith began to accelerate and followed Bailey to three figures soon after, off only 97 balls including six fours and a towering six.