Watch: How Virat Kohli's advice helped Rahul Chahar dismiss Glenn Maxwell during warm-up game

Virat Kohli may not be captaining the side on Wednesday in Team India's warm-up game against Australia in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021, but his advice to leg-spinner Rahul Chahar worked wonders. Kohli, who has played alongside Glenn Maxwell in the recently concluded season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was aware of his scoring areas and strengths and utilised that knowledge to good effect.

It may not work every time, but it did on Wednesday. After rebuilding the innings with Steve Smith, Maxwell was looking dangerous and was set to go big in the end overs. Chahar had just been reverse swept by him, which is when Kohli came up to Chahar and talked about the field and his length to Maxwell.

On the next delivery, he bowled it outside the off stump and Maxwell tried to play a shot towards the leg side from wide and could just get an inside edge onto the stumps as the Indian team got their fourth wickets of the innings.

 

 

 

 

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India won the warm-up game against Australia making it two in two as Rohit Sharma retired out after scoring 60 runs off 41 balls while contributions from KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav helped them chase own the total in just 17.5 overs.

Earlier, Australia were 11/3 after off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin dismissed David Warner and Mitchell Marsh in consecutive deliveries in his first over. Steve Smith and Glenn Maxwell, after which rebuilt and Marcus Stoinis at the end with 41* off just 25 balls helped their side get to 152/5 in their 20 overs.

India have now won both their warm-up games and look set for their tournament opener against arch-rivals Pakistan on Sunday, October 24.