India vs Australia 2nd T20I Highlights: AUS take 1-0 lead on nightmare day for IND, chase 126 with 40 balls to spare
- India vs Australia 2nd T20I Highlights: Australia ultimately win with more than enough time to spare, knocking down a small total in easy time. Few bright spots for India being Abhishek Sharma and Varun Chakravarthy.
India vs Australia 2nd T20I Highlights: Not quite a simple chase for Australia as they go 6 wickets down by the end of it, but one which was never really in doubt after a certain point. Two wickets apiece for Kuldeep, Varun, and Bumrah, but the Aussies make sure that they romp home with over 40 balls to spare....Read More
India's tame first innings effort saw them bowled out for 125. Abhishek Sharma can keep his head high with a strong performance, but couldn't see much of the strike, and a lot to think about for the rest of the batters. Josh Hazlewood starred and did the early damage with the ball, but all of Aussie's core bowlers contributed.
Five tosses, five toss wins for Mitchell Marsh, who just can't seem to lose. Wins the toss at the MCG and asks Suryakumar Yadav and co. to go in and bat first. One change for the Australian team with Matt Short returning, while India remain unchanged.
And we go again. The start of the India vs Australia T20I series turned out to be a damp disappointment, with rain playing spoilsport in Canberra and allowing only 58 deliveries to be bowled. In that period, India seemed to be enjoying the rub of the green with the bat in hand, as captain Suryakumar Yadav seemed to have regained some of his touch and Shubman Gill gave him excellent company at the other end. All that for naught, ultimately, as a fresh match and what is essentially now a four-match series awaits the two teams, beginning at the massive Melbourne Cricket Ground today.
The MCG holds great memories for the Indian team in this format in recent times, but it doesn’t mean they will automatically start this match as favourites by any means. Australia know what to expect, and will be prepared to have their own power-packed unit go head-to-head at this amphitheatre of cricket.
India vs Australia 2nd T20I playing XI
India played their cards early, saying they will stick to their guns and go with three spinners even on Australian surfaces. There is unlikely to be too much shuffling in the batting, and India might continue to stick with their plan in the bowling. However, depending on Arshdeep Singh’s fitness, he might get a go ahead of Harshit Rana.
IND playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah
Australia, meanwhile, will also likely go with the same unit. Josh Hazlewood will play this match before setting off for a month of preparation and conditioning for the Ashes, but the team might be tempted to get in someone like Sean Abbott, who will provide just a little more juice with the new ball to support Hazlewood.
AUS playing XI: Mitchell Marsh (c), Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Tim David, Matt Short, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Josh Hazlewood
India vs Australia T20I head-to-head
India and Australia have faced off against each other on 33 occasions in T20 cricket. Over that period, India have dominated the Aussies, this being the only format where they have the advantage. It isn’t particularly close either: of 33 encounters, India have won 20, while Australia have only won 11, with a couple of no-results.
The teams last played a completed T20I match at Gros Islet in St Lucia during the Super Eights stage of the T20 World Cup, where India pulled off a Rohit Sharma-led victory in confident and bruising fashion.
India vs Australia 2nd T20I Melbourne weather forecast
Rain is in the air in Melbourne as well, which will definitely be a little bit of a concern after the Canberra washout, which had a similar forecast. There is a 10-15% chance of rain when the match is set to take place, but at least the MCG can be backed for lightning-fast drainage and a longer cut-off curfew time than the Manuka Oval.
India vs Australia 2nd T20I live streaming
India vs Australia 2nd T20I will be broadcast on Star Sports Network in India. India vs Australia 2nd T20I will be livestreamed on JioHotstar in India.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 05:07:08 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: That will be that, AUS win by 4 wickets with 40 balls to spare
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: The first part of that statement won't hint at the one-sidedness of this match, but the latter will. India haven't been in this contest almost right from the off after Josh Hazlewood burst through the top order, and plenty of conviction from a Mitch Marsh led batting group to take a 1-0 lead as the series heads to the island of Tasmania this weekend.
- 31 Oct 2025, 05:01:12 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Perfect yorker! Bumrah on a hat-trick
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Perfection! Just what you expect from Bumrah. First ball is full, straight, and very quick. Short just can't jam his bat down in time. Six down, too late for drama but Bumrah will want this hat-trick!
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- 31 Oct 2025, 04:59:30 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Bumrah gets in the wicket column but only 2 needed to win
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Owen swipes at one far outside off, and feather through to Samson. Confusion as the umpire takes his sweet time to award it, but there's the spike on snicko.
Just 2 to win.
- 31 Oct 2025, 04:51:52 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Good review! Kuldeep gets a second wicket
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Inglis' knock comes to an end. Goes back to one that is too full, and beaten for pace. Kuldeep pitches that on leg and it doesn't straighten too much, into leg stump. 4 down with 14 to win.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 04:48:36 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Good spell from Varun, 2/23
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Good signs for the remainder of this series, Aussies found it tough to hit off him. Just 16 needed.
- 31 Oct 2025, 04:42:54 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: DROPPED! Harshit puts down Owen
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: That's a chance you can't drop if you need to have some sort of miracle. Big top edge off a big hoick, Harshit makes the ground, but can't hold on to a catch he should have.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 04:29:10 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Kuldeep answers with a wicket, but Marsh has done the damage
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Wry smile from Kuldeep. Conceded 20 in the over, so this won't feel like a win for Kuldeep. It's a wicket but it won't really change anything.
46(26) from Marsh. 87/2 after 8 overs.
- 31 Oct 2025, 04:27:27 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: 4, 6, 4, 6! Marsh takes down Kuldeep
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Too easy for Marsh against Kuldeep. Happy to rock back and just jit it hard through midwicket time and time again. Picks the gap twice, smokes it for six once as well. Kuldeep has to pitch up, and he disappears down the ground. This is a beatdown!
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- 31 Oct 2025, 04:24:04 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: 67/1 after 7
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Easy power from Marsh. Doesn't get great contact, but such is his strength that it travals high and well over the boundary for six off Varun.
- 31 Oct 2025, 04:14:46 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Head dismissed! Varun the man, Tilak with the catch
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Head wasn't going to stop himself from taking on Varun even if the spinner has had his number. Gets a good piece of it but not enough to clear Tilak Varma at long-off, who steps over the rope after lobbing it back in and completes a clean catch.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 04:11:07 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: 20 off Harshit's over! 49/0 after 4
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Only going one way. Marsh gets the ball exactly where he wants it, on his hips so he can swivel and send it soaring for six. No stadium in the world containing that shot when you pitch it short to him. Just 77 needed now.
- 31 Oct 2025, 04:07:22 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: First six! Trademark Head pick-up over square
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Shot! On his legs, Head just uses the pace and times it perfectly to clear that massive square leg boundary.
Two balls later, a thick edge flies past first slip and past short third. Splits the gap. Not India's day.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 04:03:48 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Everything going Australia's way! 4 byes after a leave
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: The kind of thing to which you have to shrug your shoulders and say not our day. 9 off the first three balls, Marsh leaves the fourth, and it bends late past outstretched Samson for four byes.
Next ball, 5 wides as Bumrah fires it down leg. Required rate already below run a ball.
- 31 Oct 2025, 03:59:01 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: First boundary off Rana, from a thick edge
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Head picks up a boundary! Cuts at one, thick edge flies over slip. India need wickets early here.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 03:51:48 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Back for the chase! Marsh and Head vs Bumrah
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Bumrah's first go this series, against this dangerous opening duo. Starts well at a good length just outside off, swinging away from Marsh.
- 31 Oct 2025, 03:31:59 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Abhishek Sharma caught LBW on 68, and the innings wrapped up on 125 next ball
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Great yorker from Ellis, finds some late swing and Abhishek has shuffled across too far. As plumb as can be.
Next ball, Bumrah plays it down and sets off, but Varun doesn't respond. Easy run out, and kind of emblematic of this car crash of an innings.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 03:26:11 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Abhishek batting on a different pitch! 4, 6
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: It's like India are playing on the hardest level in a video game, all except Abhishek, who is on the easiest. Puts away a full toss for four, then walks across his stumps and helps a short one over fine leg for six.
125/8 with 2 to play, and he keeps strike.
- 31 Oct 2025, 03:21:29 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Another gone! Kuldeep plays 6 ball duck
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Abhishek growing visibly frustrated. 17 overs into this innings and he's faced 28 balls. Kuldeep just picks out midwicket inside the ring on a Stoinis slower ball.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 03:19:27 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Shivam Dube gone second ball!
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Disaster! Held back and dismissed in 2 balls when he comes in! Climbs up on him from Bartlett, and he's in no position to play that. Edged behind, and really good leap and catch from Inglis.
- 31 Oct 2025, 03:13:39 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Wicket! Rana gone on 35
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Good and useful innings by him, but he couldn't get enough of the strike during this partnership to Abhishek. Useful 35 off 33, and now Shivam Dube will come in with less than 5 overs to play.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 03:10:14 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Harshit Rana goes big! 50 partnership up
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Crisp! A few dots off Stoinis, but Rana makes up. Gets one short, and just whacks it with quick hands over midwicket.
He has faced more balls than Abhishek now.
- 31 Oct 2025, 02:46:52 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Abhishek Sharma onto 46* off 19!
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Some player, Abhishek. He knows the only chance India have is if he uses this platform to go on and get a big one. He's barely faced the bowling and that will need to change.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 02:41:41 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: 56/5 after 9, Shivam Dube held back
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: So the interesting decision to hold back Shivam Dube, likely targeting Matt Kuhnemann. Harshit Rana sent in to pinch hit. Abhishek happy to tick along.
- 31 Oct 2025, 02:32:28 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Hazlewood bowls out, 3/13
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: What a spell. He's done for this tour with that, but he has been truly magical. Fast, accurate, bounce and movement. In this small sample size, some of the best fast bowling you are ever likely to see.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 02:27:27 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: 40/4 after the powerplay, Abhishek on 29*(11)
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: He has only seen 11 of the 36 balls in this powerplay, and has scored 29 of the 40 runs. 4 wickets. Australia's powerplay, but shouldn't be with the form Abhishek is in.
- 31 Oct 2025, 02:20:46 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: AND NOW TILAK IN THE SAME OVER! 3 for Hazlewood
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Not the shot for the circumstance! It's a shot Tilak plays well, but there is too much bounce in this pitch. He goes for a paddle type shot, but it's a big top edge, and Inglis can settle underneath it to take a simple catch.
Wow, India have lost their way. 33/4 after 5, Axar Patel next in.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 02:17:21 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: AND NOW SURYAKUMAR GOES! HAZLEWOOD ON FIRE
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Unplayable! Just unplayable! The previous ball is a dropped catch as Inglis can't hang on to one gloved down the leg-side, but no mistake on the next ball! It's a delivery that is Hazlewood's bread and butter, angled in and seaming away, and it's too good for Surya to do much with except edge behind!
Wow, what a start. 32/3 now, Abhishek looking sensational but has only faced one third of the balls so far.
- 31 Oct 2025, 02:14:04 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Abhishek continues to attack, two more sensational boundaries
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Wickets falling at the other end, but Abhishek doesn't care, goes after the bowling. Suddenly onto 24* off just 9 deliveries.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 02:10:48 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: ANOTHER ONE! Samson caught in front
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Samson pushed up the order but it doesn't work! Beaten on the inside edge by a straight one. Seams back in just a touch from Ellis, but not as much bounce as earlier, and it is three reds on the DRS.
23/2 now, India in a spot of bother. Captain Surya comes in.
- 31 Oct 2025, 02:04:01 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: GONE! Hazlewood does get Gill
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Gill tries to attack Hazlewood and perishes! Can't get enough contact on a ball pitched up, and it floats to Marsh at mid-off. Gill was so uncomfortable against Hazlewood today, and couldn't see him off.
Sanju Samson in next, something of a surprise.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 02:00:46 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: FIRST SIX! 17 run over from Abhishek
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: What a shot! Wow, the mechanics are such a joy to watch when it works for Abhishek. Dances down, all his weight going through the ball, and full face of the bat to take the ball with the angle over the off-side for six. Spectacular.
- 31 Oct 2025, 01:58:34 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: First four! Abhishek Sharma goes for it early
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Bartlett goes for a pair of yorkers early to Abhishek. First gets a couple whipped through leg, then a full toss sliced through covers. Next ball picks up two more. Outfield is playing a little slow, and is so big as is.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 01:53:29 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Hazlewood all over Gill! Inside edge, outside edge, helmet
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Beautiful, beautiful pace bowling. Beats him with an in-seamer first ball, with an away swinger past his outside edge the next, and surprises him by going short on the third. Hits him hard on his helmet.
We return from the concussion check, and Gill finally gets bat and ball with a backward defence. Just one run off the first over.
- 31 Oct 2025, 01:50:25 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: DRS REPRIEVE FOR SHUBMAN GILL ON THE FIRST BALL!
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Nearly an electric start for Josh Hazlewood! Shubman Gill interestingly takes first ball, and he is beaten on the inside edge. Finger goes up and Australia think they have their man!
Review is taken… goes to hawkeye… and BOUNCING OVER! Luck goes Gill's way early!
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- 31 Oct 2025, 01:39:57 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: A tribute for Ben Austin before we get started
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: A sombre moment at the MCG. 17-year-old Ben Austin lost his life in a tragic cricketing accident in Melbourne, and head injuries will always have an impact on this country's cricketing sphere in particular. Both teams share a moment of silence in his memory and to honour his family.
- 31 Oct 2025, 01:35:37 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: One change for Australia
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Just the solitary change for Australia. Matt Short returns from treatment to his finger, and Josh Phillippe misses out.
AUS playing XI: Mitchell Marsh (c), Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Tim David, Matt Short, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Josh Hazlewood
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- 31 Oct 2025, 01:34:33 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: India unchanged
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: India remain unchanged, which means no space for Arshdeep Singh still.
IND playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana/Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah
- 31 Oct 2025, 01:18:57 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Australia win toss AGAIN, and put India in to bat
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Mitchell Marsh just can't stop winning these tosses! Suryakumar calls wrong, and the Aussies choose to bowl first. SKY okay with that, wanted to bat first.
Team news next.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 01:05:47 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: 10 minutes from the toss, captains will want to bowl first
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: The MCG is typically an excelletn chasing track, and particularly with overcast conditions and the covers having been on, bowling first might be the call they go with today. Allow the bowlers the best of the conditions and back the batters to chase it down on a surface that will play hard and true throughout.
- 31 Oct 2025, 01:00:10 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Hazlewood in the powerplay vs Abhishek remains key matchup
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Josh Hazlewood will play this match before heading off for Ashes preparation, and given the form he has been in, will want to ensure he leaves by giving Australia a win on the board. His role is fairly simple: bowl a couple of overs up front, and try to remove the dangerous Abhishek Sharma, who can single-handedly decide T20 games. It was a fasinating matchup in Canberra, even if it was Ellis who removed Abhishek, and will continue to be so today.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 12:53:37 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: India opted for three spinners in Canberra
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: After Shivam Dube was backed to be the second seamer in the Asia Cup final, he was backed as the third seamer in Canberra as well, with Gautam Gambhir going with his three trusty spin bowlers and trying to have his team play to its strengths rather than change their plan for the surface. Of course, the Indian team didn't get to bowl, and that might mean the cards were played a little too early. Will the leadership be bullish about that decision and back it up?
- 31 Oct 2025, 12:50:15 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: First T20I at the MCG since 2022 World Cup final
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: This is a stadium that usually doesn't see a lot of T20I action in truth, with the G being saved for Test matches and big ODIs, given its status as a multi-purpose stadium. But this is a suitable arena for a match of this stature, and it is telling that this is a game that is expected to be a sell-out – and the first time many of these Aussie players get to play in such an atmosphere, which is almost certain to be behind the visiting Indians as they are behind the hosts themselves.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 12:25:03 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Australia not too far behind after a power revolution
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: The disappointment of last year's T20 World Cup prompted Australia to try and find an identity as a T20 team built around power-hitters in every spot in their lineup. Mitchell Marsh became captain and oversaw this switch, and the results have been immediate: against some very solid opposition, they have won 16 matches, and lost only twice since the end of last World Cup. Very quickly, the Aussies are out of the woods and into the conversation for next year's marquee T20 tournament.
- 31 Oct 2025, 12:12:11 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: India try to keep unprecedented dominant streak going
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Going back to the start of 2024, India have simply been nearly unbeatable in this format. A World Cup, an Asia Cup, series against South Africa and England, a changing of the guards as Kohli and Rohit stepped aside for a new generation, a new captain and a new coach. It hasn't mattered. In a 39-match stretch going back 22 months, India have only lost 3 T20 international matches. The very definition of a winning machine.
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- 31 Oct 2025, 12:00:03 PM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: No result from first match in Canberra
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: Rain and very little wiggle room to extend the match meant that even an hour-long shower ensured play couldn't take place in the Australian capital beyond 9.4 overs. India had started off well with the bat despite Abhishek Sharma's relatively quick wicket, with captain Suryakumar Yadav in particular looking in ominous form. However, 0-0 stayed 0-0.
- 31 Oct 2025, 11:37:30 AM IST
India vs Australia 2nd T20I LIVE Updates: HELLO AND WELCOME!
India vs Australia 2nd T20I Live Updates: The men couldn't play a full match on Wednesday, but the women more than made up for it with an all-time classic on Thursday. We are now at Thursday, and Indian fans recovering from the euphoria of last night's Women's World Cup semifinal will want the men in blue to keep that momentum going. Melbourne awaits for the second match of this T20I series. Stick with us!
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