Second ODI: Short and Connolly’s half-century, Australia beat India by 2 wickets

Adelaide, October 23 (IANS). The second match of the ODI series between India and Australia was played in Adelaide on Thursday. Australia reached the target of 265 runs given by India with the loss of 8 wickets in 46.2 overs. With this victory, Australia took an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the series. For Australia, who were chasing the target of 265 runs, Matt Short played an excellent innings of 74 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 fours in 78 balls. Cooper Connolly remained unbeaten on 61 runs from 53 balls. Matt Renshaw scored 30 runs and Mitchell Owen scored 36 runs. Indian bowlers dismissed both Australian openers Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head on the score of 54. At this time the Indian team had a chance to take control of the match by taking some more wickets but the Indian bowlers failed. Australian batsmen reached the target by making small partnerships. For India, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh and Washington Sundar took 2 wickets each. Akshar Patel and Siraj got 1 wicket each. Australia won the toss earlier and decided to bowl. The Indian team scored 264 runs with the loss of 9 wickets with the help of half-centuries from Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer. Rohit Sharma played an innings of 73 runs in 97 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 7 fours. Shreyas Iyer scored 61 runs in 77 balls with the help of 7 fours. There was a crucial partnership of 118 runs for the third wicket between Rohit and Shreyas. Apart from this, Akshar Patel played an unbeaten innings of 44 runs and Harshit Rana played an unbeaten innings of 18 runs. For Australia, Adam Zampa took 4 wickets, Xavier Bartlett 2 wickets and Mitchell Starc 2 wickets. –IANS PAK Share this story Tags