India vs Australia: 2017 5 reasons why India won the first One-Day International

#4 Effective work by the spinners

Yuzvendra Chahal was entrusted to bowl five overs in the game

On sub-continent wickets, spinners play a vital role in the bowling line-up. Not only are they assigned with the responsibility of choking the opposition, but also picking up wickets during crunch moments of a game.

Indian spinners were simply outstanding on the day as they got a stranglehold on the Aussie batsmen and never allowed them to get a foothold into the game. Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal and left-arm-chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav ripped the heart out of Australia’s batting line-up with some accurate bowling.

Yadav found the outside-edge of David Warner’s willow when the Australian was itching to cut loose. After a few overs, Chahal got the better of Maxwell to further diminish Australia’s chances of a victory. Chahal and Kuldeep, eventually, finished with 3 and 2 wickets respectively with as many as 28 dot-balls in 9 overs.