Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad
India vs Australia 2nd T20: The Indian team defeated the Australian team in spectacular fashion by 44 runs. In this match, Australian captain Matthew Wade won the toss and decided to bowl first, which turned out to be wrong. First, the Indian team beat Australia to victory with a target of 236 runs, after which Australia could only score 191 runs. The Indian batsmen performed very well in this game. Due to this, Team India was able to win the game and took a 2-0 lead in the series.
These batsmen scored half-centuries
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rituraj Gaikwad played explosive innings for India in this game. Both scored a partnership of 71 runs in the powerplay. Jaswal scored 24 runs in the fourth over off the balls of Australian bowler Sean Abbott. He seemed to be in very good shape. He then completed his half-century in just 24 balls. He was eliminated after scoring 53 runs. Then Ishan Kishan came to bat at number three. As soon as he came, he started batting aggressively and scored 52 runs. Ruturaj Gaikwad was the top run-scorer for Team India in the game. He scored 58 runs.
This happened for the first time
This is the first time for India in a T20I match that batsmen batting first, second and third in the top order will score half-centuries. This has already happened for the fifth time in total. When three top-class batsmen scored half-centuries. Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rituraj Gaikwad scored half-centuries for India in the second T20 match against Australia.
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