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Australia's Cooper Connolly bats during the 1 time planetary cricket lucifer betwixt Australia and India successful Adelaide, Australia, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/James Elsby)
India managed to propulsion Australia towards the end, but the hosts secured the three-match ODI bid 2-0 by. Australia won the lucifer by 2 wickets. While India showed betterment compared to the archetypal ODI, greeting conditions favored the bowlers, with plaything and seam making beingness hard for the batters.Mitchell Marsh won the flip and opted to vessel first. Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, and Xavier Bartlett made beingness hard for the Indian apical order.
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Captain Shubman Gill fell cheaply, and Virat Kohli registered different duck. Rohit Sharma weathered the aboriginal tempest and tried to accelerate but was dismissed for 73. Shreyas Iyer contributed a invaluable 61 and enactment connected a coagulated 118-run basal for the 3rd wicket with Rohit Sharma.Starc broke the basal by removing Rohit for a hard-working 73 disconnected 96 balls.
Shreyas scored 61 disconnected 77 balls, but Adam Zampa cleaned him up and besides knocked implicit KL Rahul successful speedy succession. Axar Patel played a neat sound but lacked support, with Washington Sundar and Nitish Kumar Reddy failing to deliver.After Iyer's wicket, India mislaid momentum. They were reeling astatine 226/8 and slipping successful the decease overs, but a superb fightback from Harshit Rana (24* disconnected 18) and Arshdeep Singh (13 disconnected 14), adding a 37-run ninth-wicket stand, helped India scope 264/9 successful 50 overs.
For Australia, Zampa finished with 4/60, Bartlett finished with 3/39, and Starc picked up 2/62. Hazlewood went wicketless but conceded lone 29 runs successful his 10 overs.Australia’s pursuit began cautiously.Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh took their time, but Marsh fell early, followed by Head, who was dismissed by Harshit Rana.Matt Short and Matthew Renshaw past steadied the innings with timely boundaries. India’s fielding lapses allowed Short to scope his 50 aft being dropped twice.
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Once Short fell, Mitchell Owen attempted to decorativeness the crippled quickly, portion Cooper Connolly batted similar a seasoned campaigner astatine the different end, reaching his maiden ODI fifty.Despite losing the speedy wickets of Xavier Bartlett and Owen, Connolly carried Australia implicit the enactment to seal the win.This was India’s archetypal decision successful six ODIs astatine Adelaide Oval since 2008.
