5th T20I: Shreyas and Mukesh shine in India's victory, India beats Australia by 6 runs and wins the series 4-1

 

India defeated Australia by 6 runs in the last match of the 5-match T20 International series with the help of Shreyas Iyer's half-century and Mukesh Kumar's brilliant bowling. With this, India won the series 4-1. In this match played at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, Australia won the toss and decided to bowl. 

Batting first, India scored 160 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. Iyer scored the maximum runs for India. He played a half-century innings of 53(37) runs. In this innings he hit 5 fours and 2 sixes. This is the eighth T20 International century. Akshar Patel played an inning of 31(21) runs. In this innings he hit 2 fours and a six. Apart from them, Jitesh Sharma contributed 24(16) and Yashasvi Jaiswal contributed 21(15) runs. Ben Dwarshuis and Jason Behrendorff took maximum 2-2 wickets for Australia. One wicket each went to the account of Aaron Hardy, Nathan Ellis and Tanveer Sangha. 

Chasing the target, the Australian team could score only 154 runs after losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. Ben McDermott scored the most runs for Australia. He played a half-century inning of 54 runs with the help of 5 sixes in 36 balls. Travis Head scored 28 runs in 18 balls with the help of 5 fours and one six. Captain Matthew Wade scored 22 runs in 15 balls with the help of 4 fours. Mukesh Kumar took maximum 3 wickets for India. Ravi Bishnoi and Arshdeep Singh were successful in taking 2-2 wickets. Patel received one letter. Arshdeep Singh bowled brilliantly in the last over and saved 10 runs. 

India's playing eleven:  Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rituraj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Arshdeep Singh. 

Australia's playing XI:  Travis Head, Josh Philippe, Ben McDermott, Aaron Hardie, Tim David, Matthew Short, Matthew Wade (wk/captain), Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jason Behrendorff, Tanveer Sangha.