India vs Australia 3rd T20: Virat Kohli powers visitors to 6-wicket win, square series

Tye to Kohli, DOT to begin. India need 5 off 5 now. A slow ball bouncer, Kohli misses it, looks at the umpire for a wide, guess what? It's not! 5 off 4. And, Kohli ruins Tye's three balls, it's a FOUR, straight down the ground! FOUR again and it's done and dusted in Sydney. 

India beat Australia by 6 wickets; square the series at 1-1. 

Mitchell Starc to bowl the penultimate over

Starc to Kohli, TWO to wide of long-on. ONE, leg byes. Karthik uses Starc's pace, opens the face of the bat and smashes it through point, FOUR. ONE. Another ONE to follow and this brings up a fifty-run stand between Kohli and DK! Two runs to end the over. 

INDIA NEED FIVE OFF FINAL SIX BALLS. 

Karthik 22(18)

Kohli 53(37)

Final two overs to go, India need 16 runs and Kohli and Karthik are well set at the moment.

India to square the series? Or hosts will give their everything to win it? 

Let's see!

Maxwell in to bowl the 17th over

Maxwell to Kohli, pokes through midwicket, ONE. Karthik sweeps to backward square, ONE. Kohli whips a slower delivery over midwicket region for a HUGGGEEe SIX! ONE. TWO TWO to end the over. 

India 138/4 (Overs 17)

Kohli 46(31)

Karthik 8(12) 

Tye to Kohli, WIDE. Kohli punches one down the pitch, DOT. A shorter delivery from Tye, Kohli cuts through backward point, FOUR. WOW! SIX! That sight, that shot, the momentum is slowly shifting to the Indian skipper, Tye and Australia need to breakthrough soon. Making use of the pace, Kohli lofts through line for the massive hit. DOT. ONE. DOT to end the over. 

India 125/4 (Overs 16)

Kohli 38(28)

Karthik 3(9) 

Zampa back into the attack

Zampa to Karthik, tries for a cover drive but just drags one to long-on, ONE. Kohli punches one to deep mid-wicket, ONE. Karthik now flicks away through midwicket, ONE. India are taking important singles here. Dot balls will only hurt them more. DOT. ONE. DOT to end the over. 

India 113/4 (Overs 15)

Kohli 27(23) 

Karthik 3(8)

Andrew Tye comes into the attack

AND AUSTRALIA HAVE THEIR FOURTH WICKET! India in serious trouble, wickets are falling on one end, skipper fighting on the other. Tye starts off with a slower delivery, Pant gives an easy catch to Carrey behind the wickets. DK walks in next. Four DOTS follow. Karhtik taps one to midwicket region for ONE. Spectacular over for the hosts. 

India need 56 off 36. 

India 109/4 (Overs 14)

Kohli 25(20)

Karthik 1(5)

Rishabh Pant c Carey b Tye 0(1)

Maxwell to Rahul, punches to short cover, DOT. Pushes ONE to long-off. Maxwell to Kohli, thick outside edge, goes in the air, but clears Coulter-Nile's head near point, TWO, Kohli runs quickly for doubles after poking the ball to mid-wicket region. OUT! Kohli was lucky to survive but Rahul isn't. The ball goes in the air again, Coulter-Nile at long-off gets an easy catch this time. 

India 108/3 (Overs 13)

Kohli 25(20)

KL Rahul c Coulter-Nile b Maxwell 14(20) 

Zampa to Kohli, flicks it through backward square, quick runnings and TWO for India. ONE. WIDE. And a single too. Kohli now pushes to short third man, ONE. DOT. ONE to long-on. Kohli makes excellent use of the gap, FOUR to the square of the wicket.

India 92/2 (Overs 10)

Kohli 14(14)

Rahul 9(8) 

Glenn Maxwell brought into the attack now

Maxwell to Kohli, he pokes to keeper's left, DOT. Maxwell bowls one flat at the stumps, Kohli clips to square leg, ONE. Just three runs off the over. 

India 83/2 (Overs 9)

Kohli 6(10)

Rahul 8(6)

Coulter-Nile to Kohli, clips to wide of mid-on, TWO. Rahul and Kohli both are excellent runners, India will still look to convert the singles to doubles here. A short ball from Coulter-Nile, Kohli pulls it down to fine-leg, ONE. DOT. Another short ball, Rahul pulls it over deep mid-wicket, the ball flies high, just beats McDermott at the boundary. Two Singles to end the over. 

India 78/2 (Overs8)

Kohli 4(6) 

Rahul 7(4) 

Australia's spinner Adam Zampa into the attack now

Zampa to Rohit, DOT. A bit outside off, Rohit tries to cut, fails, DOT again. Two more DOTS. OUT! Rohit this time, Australia in quick succession have sent back both the Indian openers back to the dugout and the match is wide open once again. Rahul is the new man in, DOT to end the over. 

India 67/2 (Overs 7)

Kohli 0(3)

Rahul 0(1)

Rohit Sharma b Adam Zampa 23(16) 

Starc back into the attack

Starc to Rohit, a bit outside off,  clips one to backward point, ONE. There you go, it's RAINING BOUNDARIES in Sydney! Dhawan now strikes gently to extra-cover, FOUR! Australia now takes a review and they have a wicket, Dhawan's brilliant comes to an end. Dhawan goes forward, keeps his bat close to his pad in an attempt to defend, gets LBW. Kohli, who was heavily criticised for batting at No. 4 last match, comes out to bat at No. 3 here. THREE DOTS to end the over. 

India 67/1 (Overs 6)

Rohit 23(11)

Kohli 0(3)

Shikhar Dhawan lbw b Starc 41(22)

Marcus Stoinis into the attack now

Dot to begin before Rohit treats him with a HUGGGGGEEE SIX! An effortless shot, over mid-on. ONE to square-leg. WIDE. MASSSIIIVEEE from Dhawan, hammers over mid-wicket, SIX and this brings 50-run partnershi[p between Dhawan and Rohit. Things are getting worse for the hosts, FOUR now. Andddd, another FOUR to end the over! 22 runs off this over. The previous over saw Indians smashing 20 runs. 

India 62/0 (Overs 5) 

Dhawan 37(20)

Rohit 22(10)

Nathan Coulter-Nile to Rohit, going down the leg, WIDE. Typical pull from him, SIX! ONE. DOT. A slower delivery, Dhawan pulls one to deep mid-wicket, TWO. SIX this time from Dhawan, goes down and smashes one over deep mid-wicket. Back to back boundaries from Shikhar Dhawan,  a fuller outside off, Dhawan smashes past extra-cover for FOUR! 

India 36/0 (Overs 4)

Dhawan 23(17)

Rohit 15(7) 

Mitchell Starc from the other end: Eight runs off the over. Decent start for Team India in the series decider in Sydney. 

India 20/0 (Overs 3)

Dhawan 11(13) 

Rohit 8(5) 

Mitchell Starc bowls a very good first over. India need 162 runs from 19 overs. 

INDIA 3/0 after 1 over

Here we go again...

Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan are out in the middle- Mitchell Starc to bowl.

India need 165 runs to win the match 

A boundary off the last ball takes Australia to 164/6. 15 runs from the last over. India need 165 runs to level the series.

AUSTRALIA 164/6 after 20 overs

RUN OUT chance!

Coulter-Nile dives back as Bumrah fails to remove the bails in time. Safe.

Nathan Coulter-Nile takes two boundaries for last three balls of Bhuvi's over. 6 balls to go- how many more can they add to the total?

AUSTRALIA 149/6 after 19 overs

OUT

There is mix-up and direct hit. Chris Lynn's gone. Stoinis pushed it gently towards point and wanted a single. Lynn wasn't keen on it at first. Lynn commits to it late but by now both batsman are basically in the middle of the pitch. They try to return back to their respective creases but Bumrah sends a direct hit at the bowler's end.

AUSTRALIA 131/6 after 17.2 overs

4-0-36-4 @krunalpandya24 now holds the record for the best figures by a spinner in T20Is in Australia pic.twitter.com/AFtfusuljo

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 25, 2018

OUT

Carey falls after two consecutive FOURS. Krunal Pandya gets his 4th wicket. Carey finally mis-times a sweep shot and finds deep midwicket. 

AUSTRALIA 120/5 after 16 overs

30 balls left

Khaleel Ahmed finishes his spell with 4-0-35-0. He manages to keep Lynn from any big shots off his last few balls. Australia will look to Lynn to get them past 160. 

AUSTRALIA 107/4 after 15 overs

OUT 

Krunal Pandya gets Glenn Maxwell (13) again. Maxwell tries to launch the ball past long on but can't clear the field. Rohit Sharma takes the catch to make up for the earlier drop.

AUSTRALIA 98/4 after 14 overs

Australia have held back Chris Lynn so far. With Maxwell and Carey at crease Virat Kohli sneaks in one over from Khaleel. Good thinking from the Indian captain.

AUSTRALIA 85/3 after 12 overs

OUT

Wicket No. 3 for India. Ben McDermott out for a golden duck. Pandya on hat-trick.

AUSTRALIA 73/3 after 9.2 overs

REVIEW 

Glenn Maxwell went for DRS after he was given out LBW. He would be glad he did. It was just missing leg. 

AUSTRALIA 73/1 after 9 overs

OUT

Pandya takes the catch- Finch (28) is gone. He top edges Kuldeep Yadav to short fine. Finch went for the sweep against the spin, a bit of extra bounce caught the top edge straight to Krunal.

AUSTRALIA 68/1 after 8.3 overs

DROPPED

Krunal Pandya has been unlucky this series- Finch hits him very high - Rohit comes under it but can't hold on to it. 

AUSTRALIA 53/0 after 7.1 overs

A solid powerplay for Australia as they take the run rate up to 8.16 per over. India will look to spin now to get the breakthrough. It seems like a high scoring pitch.

AUSTRALIA 49/0 after 6 overs

It's been a mixed start so far. While Indian bowlers have not got a wicket- they have also not let run flow easily. The Australians, on the other hand, have scored at least a boundary in each over.

AUSTRALIA 28/0 after 4 overs

There were couple of good lbw shouts in the first over against Finch. However, India didn't go for REVIEW. The crowd joined in with Bhuvi's appeals. There's huge support for India at the SCG. 

Between the two appeals, Short managed to hit a good looking shot through extra cover for FOUR. 

AUSTRALIA: 8/0 after 1 over

IT'S TIME TO PLAY

D'Arcy Short takes the strike, Aaron Finch at the other end. Bhuvneshwar Kumar will bowl the first over again. 

At toss, Indian captain Virat Kohli said that he was happy to bowl first. India remain unchanged, Australia bring in Starc for Behrendorff. 

Here are the two playing XIs

Australia: Aaron Finch (capt), D'arcy Short, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Ben McDermott, Alex Carey (wk), Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mitchell Starc, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa

India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (capt), Rishabh Pant (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed

TOSS: Aaron Finch has won the toss and Australia will bat first.

Rain has played a role in both matches so far. However, today the players are out on the ground warming up in glorious sun shine.

Game mode on #TeamIndia #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/P8VvnnZxi6

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 25, 2018

Welcome to the coverage of India vs Australia 3rd T20I match.

There is much at stake with India trying to avoid a series loss. On the other hand, Australia will be looking to win the series to assert early dominance before the Test series.