Published On 31 Oct 2025
In a 82,438 capacity crowd, fast bowler Hazlewood defeated India for 125 in a devastating opening game at the sporting colosseum on Friday, taking 3-13 and collecting 15 dot balls.
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With 40 balls to go, the hosts reeled in the modest total before Captain Marsh and Travis Head shared a 51-run opening partnership with Travis Head.
Australia will lead the five-match series 1-0 heading into its third game on Sunday in Hobart after the rainy Canberra opener washed out on Wednesday.
Abhishek Sharma, the opener for India, won with 68 off 37 balls, amplifying his burgeoning reputation with a strong first fifty on Australian soil.
However, he was one of only two Indian batters to score twice on a fast-paced, fast-paced pitch.
On the first ball, Shubman Gill gave out lbw after Marsh won the toss and chose to field.
Hazlewood followed up with a short ball that crashed into Gill’s helmet, which was overturned after being reviewed.
A shake-up Gill slogged Hazlewood, leading to a five-year high order collapse, after which a top-order collapsed.
Suryakumar Yadav was the skipper’s fourth single-digit score in six games before dismissing Tilak Varma for a duck with a top-edge caught by wicketkeeper Inglis.
India was in serious trouble at 32 for four by the time Hazlewood’s four-over spell came to an end.
In whatever format I’m playing, the ball seems to be coming out really well, according to man-of-the-match Hazlewood.
“It was just put the ball in the right places; don’t try too hard; just watch what happens.”
In the first over he faced, Sharma had a strong start as he smashed 14 runs off paceman Xavier Bartlett (2-39).
In a 56-run stand for the sixth wicket, he and Harshit Rana (35) saved India from embarrassment.
However, Bartlett quickly resurrected from his bruising early spell, dismissing Rana and Shivam Dube, who had brilliantly been brilliantly pouched by a diving Inglis.
Source: Aljazeera
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