Australia beat India in 1st ODI of Bilateral Series played in 2016

India was scheduled to play a 5 Match One Day international series in Australia in 2016. This series was important as both teams were preparing for the T 20 World Cup to be played later in India in 2016. The 1st One Day international match was to be played on W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth, Australia on 12th Jan, 2016.

India won the toss and opts to bat first, this is how Indian team and 11 was looking like in this 1st One Day international match: MS Dhoni (c & wk), Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar,Manish Pandey, Umesh Yadav, Barinder Sran.

And Australian team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st One Day international match: George Bailey, Aaron Finch, Matthew Wade (wk), David Warner, Steven Smith (c), Mitchell Marsh, Josh Hazlewood, Glenn Maxwell, James Faulkner, Joel Paris, Scott Boland

India started very well and played aggressively to set total of 309 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 3 wickets and top score by R Sharma who made 171 runs in 163 balls with 13 4’s and 7 sixes at the strike rate of 105 runs in 100 balls and V kohli made 91 runs in 97 balls with 9 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 94 runs in 100 balls.

Australia was needed to score 310 runs in 50 over’s to won this 1^st one day international match.

Australia batted very well and was able to chase the total in only 49.2 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets only and top scored by Skipper S Smith who made unbeaten 149 runs in 135 balls with 11 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 111 runs in 100 balls and G Bailey made 112 runs in 120 balls with 7 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 93 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 5 wickets and S Smith was the man of the match.

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