India defeat Australia to take a 2-1 lead in the T20 series.

T20 Series – (Special Correspondent / Web Desk) – India seized a 2-1 lead in their T20 series against Australia on Thursday, defeating the home team by 48 runs on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
After losing the toss and being sent in to bat, India scored 167-8, due to Shubman Gill’s 46 and crucial contributions from Abhishek Sharma (28) and Shivam Dube (22).
India’s bowlers then seized major stage, dismissing Australia for 119, with off-spinner Washington Sundar grabbing 3-3 in just eight balls to wrap up the game.
“I thought 167 was par on that wicket,” Australian skipper Mitchell Marsh said.

“But batting was pretty hard — we had a few partnerships but we just couldn’t get the big one that would give us momentum going into the back end of the innings.”

India would have gone into the innings break hoping for a bigger score than 167 but the total proved too much for the Australians, who started brightly but fell away alarmingly after reaching 67-1 in the ninth over.

The visitors will now head to Brisbane on Sunday hoping to clinch the five-match series after the opening game in Canberra was washed out.

“I think the bowlers did really well,” India captain Suryakumar Yadav said. “There was a little bit of dew but they adapted really quickly.

“I think the combination (of our bowlers) suits us really well and bowling a side out is what we want from them,” he said.

India had looked like reaching an imposing score when openers Abhishek and Gill took to the Australian attack in the early overs.

The pair put on 56 off just 6.4 overs with little trouble before Abhishek, who had smashed a huge six off leg-spinner Adam Zampa two balls earlier, tried a second time only to be caught by Tim David on the long-on boundary.

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Dube joined Gill and continued to score freely against Zampa, but he struggled with the pace bowling and was bowled by Nathan Ellis, leaving India at 88-2.
Ellis got his second when he bowled Gill with India 121-3.
Any prospect of a huge score was dashed four runs later, when Yadav was caught on the boundary for 20, and the remainder of the batting fell apart.
Australian openers Marsh (30) and Matthew Short (25) made a promising start, but India’s bowlers continued chipping away, taking wickets at crucial stages to take control.