SK Flashback: Steve Smith bats India out of the 2015 World Cup

#3 Mitchell Johnson pummels the Indian death bowlers

Mitchell Johnson played a nine-ball cameo in the last few overs, finding the boundary five times

The Indians managed to slow the Australians down in the last hour of the game. Their bowling was disciplined after Smith departed and their fielding tight. Australia probably fancied their chances of getting a score of 350 plus at one point but at the end of the 48th over they hadn’t even crossed 300. The Men in Blue would have hoped to restrict the target for their chase to under 315.

Enter Mitchell Johnson.

He faced nine of the twelve balls in the last two overs and scored 27 runs. Straight drives and cross-batted heaves sent the ball across the ropes and Australia ended with 328 runs on the board. If the Indians had fought their way into the match in the last 15 overs, Johnson’s cameo seized the momentum right back again.