#4 Australian spinners ran through India’s middle order
Two out of the top three for India hadn’t fired, so it was up to the middle order to step up and win the game for the team. Rishabh Pant, Vijay Shankar and Ravindra Jadeja had the ideal opportunities to score runs and seal their spots for the World Cup. But the Australian spinners had some other plans.
First, it was the off-spinner Nathan Lyon’s turn. He bowled a peach of a delivery to get rid of Pant. Soon, Adam Zampa too joined the party. First, he picked up the wicket of Shankar while he was batting on 16. He then came back to get the wickets of Rohit Sharma and Jadeja in a single over. His double-wicket maiden over turned the game.
The Australian spinners spun a web around the Indian middle-order batsmen as India collapsed from 2/91 to 6/136. This collapse is one of the main reasons as to why India couldn’t chase down the total of 273.
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