Perth: In the second warm-up match played before the World Cup, the Indian cricket team was defeated by Western Australia today. Team India could not even achieve the target of 169 runs and could score only 132 runs in 20 overs for the loss of 8 wickets. KL Rahul scored the highest 74 runs in 55 balls, but could not get India to win. Rishabh Pant (9) came to open, Deepak Hooda (6), Hardik Pandya (17 runs in 9 balls), Axar Patel (2), Dinesh Karthik (10 runs in 14 balls), Harshal Patel (10 balls) came at number three. 2 runs in) Players like this completely failed with the bat. India won the first match by 13 runs.
Kohli did not play even today
Virat Kohli did not take part in this practice match either. He did not even play in the first match played two days ago. Despite being in the playing XI, Rohit Sharma also did not bat. Perhaps he wanted to give his other batsmen as much practice as possible. Batting first after losing the toss, Western Australia scored 168 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. Ravichandran Ashwin was India’s most successful bowler, taking three wickets. Interestingly, Ashwin took all these wickets in a single over. Apart from Ashwin, Harshal Patel took 2 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs, while pacer Arshdeep Singh also got a breakthrough.
Suryakumar didn’t even play matches
When India won the last match, Suryakumar had scored 52 runs in 35 balls. During this, his bat had three fours and as many sixes. At no point did it appear that the pace and bounce of the pitch had bothered the world number two T20 batsman. Hardik Pandya also played a flamboyant innings of 29 runs in 20 balls. Deepak Hooda also scored 22 runs in 14 balls. India scored 39 for two in the powerplay.
Ravichandran Ashwin: Ashwin is back… 3 wickets in a single over, Ravichandran dominated the World Cup practice match
Ravichandran Ashwin: Ashwin is back… 3 wickets in a single over, Ravichandran dominated the World Cup practice match