India has defeated Australia by 24 runs in the second last match of group stage of ICC T20 World Cup. They also qualified for the Semi-finals of the ongoing event.

Australian captain Mitchell Marsh won the toss and invited India to bat first.

India’s innings

India didn’t get off to a good start against Australia, veteran batsman Virat Kohli was dismissed for a wicket.

After the fall of one wicket, the captain Rohit Sharma took the brunt of the Australian bowlers and used charming strokes from all sides of the field. He played a smoky innings of 92 runs off 41 balls which included 8 sixes and 7 fours.

Apart from this, Rishabh Pant 15, Surya Kumar Yadav 31 and Shiv Dubey got out by scoring 28 runs while Hardik Pandya scored 27 runs and Jadeja remained not out by scoring 9 runs.

India scored 205 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.

For Australia, Marcus Stoins and Mitchell Starc took 2 wickets each.

Australia’s inning:

Chasing India’s 205, Australia could only score 181 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in alloted overs.

Travis Head sored 76, Mitchel Marsh 37, Glen Maxwell 20, and Tim David scored 15 runs for Australia.

Arshdeep Sigh took three while Kuldeep Yadav took two wickets for India.