India have levelled the Twenty20 series against Australia, sharing the blows with the bat for a five-wicket win with nine balls to spare in Hobart.<\/p>\n
The hosts posted 186-6 on Sunday night on the back of an explosive 74 from 38 balls from Tim David batting at No 4 and a Marcus Stoinis half-century.<\/p>\n
Australia kept themselves in the hunt with regular wickets in India\u2019s chase, before Washington Sundar\u2019s unbeaten 49 from 23 got India home<\/a>.<\/p>\n After a washout in the series opener in Canberra<\/a>, India\u2019s win puts the five-game series at 1-1 with two fixtures remaining.<\/p>\n On his Hurricanes home turf, quick Nathan Ellis did his best to inspire Australia with 3-36, including the scalps of openers Abhishek Sharma (25) and Shubman Gill (15).<\/p>\n But India were able to keep on top of the run-rate to set up a crucial game four on the Gold Coast on Thursday.<\/p>\n Australia missed elite quick Josh Hazelwood, who took 3-13 in game two<\/a> but is sitting out the final three fixtures of the series with the Ashes looming.<\/p>\n Australia fast bowler Xavier Bartlett is left frustrated as India ease towards their target in the third T20 at Bellerive Oval. Photograph: David Gray\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Earlier, after Australia were sent in, David whacked an impressive 74 from 38 balls featuring five sixes and eight fours.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old came to the crease with his side 14 for 2 in the third over and made India pay for dropping him on 20.<\/p>\n David launched two sixes from the spin of Axar Patel in the seventh over, including one straight that hit the signage on top of the Ninja Stadium roof.<\/p>\n He fell in the 13th over, caught on the long-off boundary off the medium pace of Shivan Dube.<\/p>\n Stoinis held Australia together somewhat with an important 64 from 39 balls, in an innings in which three of the top five fell for single digits.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Subscribe to our cricket newsletter for our writers’ thoughts on the biggest stories and a review of the week\u2019s action<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n India spinner Varun Chakravarthy (2-33) suffered some punishment from David, but took two scalps in two balls including rattling Mitch Owen\u2019s stumps for a duck.<\/p>\n An inclusion after Melbourne, left-arm quick Arshdeep Singh was the pick of India\u2019s bowlers with 3-35 and won player-of-the-match honours.<\/p>\n India\u2019s chase got off to a strong start before twin blows to Ellis had them 62 for 2 in the sixth over.<\/p>\n The tourists lost skipper Suryakumar Yadav for an 11-ball 24 when he chipped a catch to Ellis off the bowling of Marcus Stoinis in the eighth over.<\/p>\n Sundar was immediately aggressive and to took the long handle to Sean Abbott with back-to-back sixes.<\/p>\n Australia could turn to Glenn Maxwell in game four. The all-rounder has been given slightly longer to recover from a wrist injury after joining the squad for games three to five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India have levelled the Twenty20 series against Australia, sharing the blows with the bat for a five-wicket win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-239613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}