India won the T-20 series 4-1: Beat Australia by 6 runs in the 5th match; Mukesh Kumar took 3 wicket

India won the T-20 series 4-1: Beat Australia by 6 runs in the 5th match; Mukesh Kumar took 3 wickets

India defeated Australia by 6 runs in the thrilling 5th T20 match. Team India's Arshdeep Singh defended 10 runs in the last 6 balls in Bengaluru. He did not give any runs on the first 3 balls and also took the wicket of captain Matthew Wade. The Kangaroo team could score only 3 runs and lost the match. With the victory in the 5th T20, Team India won the series by a margin of 4-1.

Australia won the toss and chose bowling at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Batting first, Team India scored 160 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Australia could score only 154 runs for 8 wickets. Australia lost the T-20 match for the first time in Bengaluru, here the team has won 3 T-20s.

Ravi Bishnoi was the player of the series

Leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi took 2 wickets for 29 runs in the fifth T20. He led the team to success in every match of the series. He received the Player of the Series award for taking 9 wickets in 5 matches. In the high scoring series, he gave runs at an economy of just 8.20 and emerged as the new wrist spinner of Team India.

Akshar Patel was the player of the match

Mukesh Kumar took 3 wickets for India. While Arshdeep Singh and Ravi Bishnoi got 2-2 wickets. Akshar Patel, who took one wicket for just 14 runs in 4 overs, was the player of the match. Akshar also scored 31 runs. Apart from him, Shreyas Iyer played an inning of 53 runs. Jitesh Sharma contributed 24 runs and Yashasvi Jaiswal contributed 21 runs.

Arshdeep gave only 3 runs in the last over

Australia needed 10 runs to win from the last 6 balls. Arshdeep Singh bowled the first ball a bouncer to Kangaroo team captain Matthew Wade. The next ball was a yorker, on which no runs were scored and the third ball was caught out. 1-1 runs were scored on the fourth, fifth and sixth balls and Australia lost the close match by 6 runs.

Arshdeep Singh gave 14 runs in his first over, but spent only 24 runs in the last 3 overs. He also got 2 important wickets of Ben McDermott and Matthew Wade.

2 game-changing overs of Mukesh Kumar

Australia needed 37 runs in the last 4 overs. Here Team India's fast bowler Mukesh Kumar came to bowl the 17th over. 5 runs were scored against him on the first 2 balls but Mukesh took 2 wickets on the third and fourth balls. He did not give any runs on the last 2 balls and ended his over by giving only 5 runs.

Mukesh again bowled well in the 19th over. Here the Kangaroo team needed 17 runs on 12 balls. Mukesh gave only 7 runs in the over and in the last over, India got 10 runs to defend. Mukesh took the wickets of Josh Philip, Matthew Short and Ben Dwarshus.