India registered a thrilling win in the second T20I against Australia by six wickets and thus sealed the series with just one match to go. The visitors had many good performances in this match among which Shikhar Dhawan’s fifty, T Natarajan’s spell, and Hardik Pandya’s late blitz deserve special mention. Australia played well too, with Matthew Wade registering an explosive fifty and Mitch Swepson bowling tight spell, but the visitors just turned out to be the better side. Without further adieu, let’s take a look at the key numbers from the match.
- This was India’s 10th successive win in T20Is and also the 10th consecutive win away from home. Three of these wins have come in West Indies, five in New Zealand, and the other two on this tour of Australia.
- This was the second-highest run chase in a T20I in Australia. The highest was 198 by India once again and at the same venue (SCG) as well, in 2016.
- Australia’s total of 194/5 today was the fourth-highest score without any fifty-run partnership. The highest was 210/7 by Afghanistan against Ireland in 2019.
- Matthew Wade scored his second T20I fifty today and it came after a period of 8 years and 10 months. His last fifty (an innings of 72 off 43 balls) came against India at the SCG in February 2012. He featured only in 29 T20I matches during this period, though.
- This was Shikhar Dhawan’s 11th T20I fifty and also his second in the last three innings. His last fifty came against Sri Lanka at Pune in January.
- With his blitz of 42* off 22 deliveries today, Hardik took his death overs (16-20) tally in 2020 to 270 runs. He has scored these runs at an explosive strike-rate of 195.7 and struck 22 sixes while doing so.