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India captain Virat Kohli was blissful that the group performed with “heart and desire” within the third ODI towards Australia in Canberra on Wednesday, regardless of the collection already being determined within the host’s favour after the second recreation. India efficiently defended their complete of 302 and beat Australia by 13 runs on the Manuka Oval. “We played with heart and desire, and that’s what you need to do in Australia,” the India captain stated, whereas additionally praising the essential partnership between Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja.
“It’s particularly pleasing that we were under the pump for the first half of our innings, and second half of Australia’s, and we fought back both times,” Kohli stated after the match.
“Playing international cricket for 13-14 years, you should be able to come back like we did,” Kohli stated.
India gained the toss and selected to bat.
After the early wicket of Shikhar Dhawan, Kohli rebuilt for India together with Shubman Gill, who opened the batting instead of Mayank Agarwal.
After Gill fell for 33, Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul have been fast to observe, with each batsmen failing to make a mark.
Kohli carried on the battle with Hardik Pandya, however departed for 68, leaving India at 152/5. But Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja placed on an unbeaten 152-run partnership to take India to 302/5 on the finish of 50 overs.
“I would have liked to go on for a bit longer, but we had a great partnership between Hardik and Jadeja. It was exactly what the team needed to get that boost, even though we’ve lost the series,” stated Kohli, who additionally turned the quickest to attain 12,000 ODI runs.
“One guy making his debut, Shubman coming back, that brought us some freshness. I think the pitch was much better in terms of helping the bowlers, so obviously the confidence levels go up. We were able to put Australia under pressure because of that fact as well,” Kohli stated, concerning the change in situations from Sydney in addition to the adjustments within the Indian group.
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While Shubman Gill changed Mayank Agarwal, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav and T Natarajan all got here into the bowling assault, changing Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini and Yuzvendra Chahal.
Natarajan took two wickets on debut, whereas Shardul Thakur picked up three scalps. Kuldeep Yadav additionally picked up a wicket for India.
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