Maxwell and Zampa help Australia trump India in Brisbane

Undeterred by the wicket, Dhawan stepped out to Andrew Tye to hit the bowler down the ground for four and then brought out the deftest of touches to tease the ball past the wicket-keeper’s gloves for his eighth boundary in six overs and bring up India’s 50.

Spin was introduced for the first time in the seventh, and KL Rahul, who walked in at No.3, welcomed Adam Zampa by cutting the leg spinner through point.

Dhawan continued on his merry way, flicking Behrendorff for a six and a four to bring up his 50 off just 28 balls.

But Zampa brought Australia back once again by ripping one past Rahul’s outside edge and getting the batsman stumped by Alex Carey for 13. One brought two, as Kohli (4) mistimed his wild hoick across the line against Zampa and lobbed a catch to short third man to leave India in trouble at 94/3, needing 13 runs per over at the end of the 11th.

With the pressure of chase mounting, Dhawan pulled Stanlake through square leg for six to break the shackles but was dismissed the very next ball, trying to guide a ball over third man but finding Behrendorff in the deep.

India needed 65 runs off the last five overs which became 60 off the last four as Zampa bowed out with an impressive 2/22, but Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik hit a six each in the 14th over, bowled by Tye, that also had two wides to collect 25 runs to swing the game once again.

Karthik hit three fours in the next two overs, off Stoinis and Tye, to bring up the 50-run fifth-wicket partnership off just 22 balls. But Tye struck in his last over, the innings’ 16th, dismissing Pant for 20 to leave India 13 to get off the last over, which the visitors fell short of.