four-wicket win<\/a> in the second T20I against India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<\/p>\nFast bowler Hazlewood took 3-13 and racked up 15 dot balls in a devastating opening spell on Friday as Australia bowled out India for 125 in front of a crowd of 82,438 at the sporting colosseum.<\/p>\n
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Captain Marsh smashed 46 off 26 balls and shared in a 51-run opening partnership with Travis Head before the hosts reeled in the modest total with 40 balls to spare.<\/p>\n
With the series-opener in Canberra washed out by rain on Wednesday, Australia will take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series into the third game in Hobart on Sunday.<\/p>\n
India opener Abhishek Sharma top-scored with 68 off 37 balls, further enhancing his burgeoning reputation with a fine first fifty on Australian soil.<\/p>\n
However, he was one of only two India batters to reach double figures on a lively pitch that offered pace and movement off the seam.<\/p>\n
With Marsh winning the toss and electing to field, Hazlewood had Shubman Gill given out lbw on the first ball.<\/p>\n
While the decision was overturned on review, Hazlewood followed up with a short ball that crashed into the crest of Gill\u2019s helmet.<\/p>\n
A shook-up Gill slogged Hazlewood to be caught for five, triggering a top-order collapse.<\/p>\n
Hazlewood removed Suryakumar Yadav for one, the skipper\u2019s fourth single-digit score in six matches, before dismissing Tilak Varma for a duck two balls later with a top-edge caught by wicketkeeper Inglis.<\/p>\n
By the end of Hazlewood\u2019s four-over spell, India were in huge trouble at 32 for four.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ball feels like it\u2019s coming out really nicely at the moment in whatever format I\u2019m turning up and playing,\u201d said man-of-the-match Hazlewood.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just put the ball in the right areas, don\u2019t try too much and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sharma made a bright start amid the Hazlewood onslaught, smashing 14 runs off paceman Xavier Bartlett (2-39) in the first over he faced.<\/p>\n
He and Harshit Rana (35) combined in a 56-run stand for the sixth wicket to save India from embarrassment.<\/p>\n
But Bartlett recovered well from his bruising early spell, dismissing Rana and Shivam Dube (4) in quick succession, the latter brilliantly pouched by a diving Inglis.<\/p>\n
Another sharp catch in close by Sean Abbott saw Kuldeep Yadav depart for nought before Nathan Ellis (2-21) dismissed Abhishek lbw, ending India\u2019s hopes of a decent total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia beat India by four wickets with 6.4 overs to spare in dominant display in second T20 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[1724,77,64,63,740,1209,44,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-253295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-asia-pacific","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-cricket","13":"tag-india","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}