India vs Australia Highlights, World Cup 2023: Kohli, KL Rahul power IND to six wickets win

India vs Australia Live Score: Kohli and KL Rahul bring up the 100-run partnership as Adam Zampa gives five runs in his over.

Rahul then brings up his half-century in the next over by Pat Cummins, takes 72 balls to reach the milestone.

Meanwhile, Cummins bowls a wayward delivery with the ball dropping in the adjoining pitch. The umpire signals it no, following which he bowls a wide.

The freehit is hit in between mid-wicket and long-on for a boundary. IND: 116/3 (28 overs)

India vs Australia Live Score: Pat Cummins bangs it short and Kohli perfectly times his pull. Could have easily been a four but superb effort by Cameron Green saves the ball from reaching the boundary ropes. Two runs come from it and with that Kohli also brings up his half-century. IND: 100/3 (26 overs)

India vs Australia Live Score: Hazlewood continues but from the end from which Mitchell Starc was bowling. He gives two singles, something which won't hurt India.

Zampa continues from the other end but so far no real threat generated by him as four runs come in it.

India reach 97/3 at the midway stage. Both Kohli and Rahul are batting in their 40s.

India vs Australia Live Score: As Adam Zampa was struggling from one end, Pat Cummins gets in Josh Hazlewood, so that the spinner could change ends.

Hazlewood gave five runs in his over, while Zampa's struggles continues, which is a bit of a surprise. The spinner gives three easy singles as India reach 90/3 in 22 overs.

India vs Australia Live Score: Another good over for India as Kohli and Rahul focus on strike rotation. Seven runs come in the over bowled by Adam Zampa. IND: 80/3 (20 overs)

India vs Australia Live Score: Adam Zampa is introduced in the attack and is hit for three boundaries by KL Rahul. The first two coming behind the stumps with KL Rahul cutting the ball on both instances. The third one is hit towards covers off a low full toss. IND: 69/3 (18 overs)

India vs Australia Live Score: Glenn Maxwell keeps things economical as three runs come in his over, which also help India cross 50.

Meanwhile, Mitchell Starc [3.0-0-6-1] is back into the attack. He too keep things under control as four runs come in his over. IND: 56/3 (17 overs)

India vs Australia Live Score: Kohli raises the decibel at Chepauk as he hits Cameron Green for consecutive fours. Green pitches the ball up, coming at Kohli's pads and the batter flicks it in between the mid-wicket and mid-on region. Both boundaries come in similar fashion. IND: 49/3 (15 overs)

India vs Australia Live Score: Virat Kohli and KL Rahul are doing the right thing by digging in and not taking unnecessary risks.

However, Australia have maintained the tempo as Cameron Green beats KL Rahul with a quick length delivery, almost taking the outside edge on its way.

Glenn Maxwell, who is bowling from the other end, gives three runs in his over. IND: 41/3 (14 overs)

Cummins bowling the 11th, fourth ball is full outside off and Rahul leans into the drive. Pierce the gap between backward point and point. India 32/3 in 10.4 overs

Rahul is on seven off 14, Kohli on 17 off 36. The conditions are as conducive to batting at the moment as how safe it would be to breath under water. The required rate is 4.32 and the current rate os 2.7 but India won't care about that one bit. Rahul and Kohli put up a mammoth partnership against Pakistan not too long ago and India would want something similar from them today.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Is this the stroke of luck India needed? A simple catch has been put down and Virat Kohli, of all batters, has been given a second life. Third ball of the eighth by Hazlewood, it was short and seemed to hurry Kohli for pace as he went for the pull. Top edge pops up, Carey and Marsh going for it from oppoosite directions, Carey seems to pull out as Marsh is getting there first but the latter seems put off my the Australian wicketkeeper. He reaches there but his hands are anywhere but in the right position, it is spilled and Kohli survives. The entirety of the Chepauk stadium, and possibly the city, the state and the country it is located in, heaves a giant collective sigh of relief.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: That is imperious from Kohli. Full outside off from Hazlewood for the fifth ball of the sixth, Kohli steps out and smashes it past the bowler to the boundary.

Full outside off to end the fourth over by Hazlewood, Rahul leans into the drive and a boundary at last for India.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: You can breath easy for a few seconds, no wickets have fallen for a change in this over and some runs finally came off the bat. That happened with Kohli clipping the first ball to deep backward square leg and the batters running two after that. Kohli is on 3 off 7 at the end of that, Rahul on 0 off 1.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Jeepers creepers India's top three have crumbed for nothing. All of a sudden, that target looks like a mountain. Shreyas Iyer hits the last ball of the second over straight into the hands of Warner at short cover. Horrendous shot and India are three down with none of their batters registering a score. Kohli is on 0 off 2 at the other end and the only runs that have come are from a wide and a bye.

Shreyas Iyer c Warner b Hazlewood 0 (3)< India 2/3 in 2 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Hazlewood raps Rohit on the pads third ball of the second. Big appeal for LBW and the umpire raises his finger! Rohit review but there is no edge involved. Stumps is "umpire's call", India in a soup early in this chase!

Rohit lbw b Hazlewood 0 (6), India 2/2 in 1.3 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: This is almot exactly what Australia would have been hoping for when starting this defence. But now, they know they need a wicket pronto as it is now Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the middle.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: And that too, on his World Cup debut. Yikes! Full outside off from Starc, swinging away. Kishan throws his hands at it, edge and first slip. Ishan Kishan got an unexpected chance to open the innings here and this would have been a worst case scenario as far as his assesments for how the day would go was concerned.

Kishan c Green b Starc 0 (1), India 2/1 in 0.4 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Right then, here is Rohit Sharma and his opening partner for this game Ishan Kishan. Mitchell Starc to start the bowling for Australia. This is a challenging surface and so Australia know that they are still very much in it.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: India need 200 to win. It all started with Bumrah dismissing Marsh in the third over, and then restarted with Kuldeep felling Warner. India were on the money in every way. While it was always known that their bowling is almost air tight, their fielding was under the scanner a little in the run up to this tournament. But they didn't put a foot wrong on that front. Their boundary riders ran around and stopped the Australians from getting any boundaries and not arguably a single catch was dropped.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Siraj bowling the last over, the second ball in is is crunched right back where the ball came from along the ground. Starc has got to 28 in 34, which now makes him their third highest scorer after Warner and Smith.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Pandya gets one at last. Zampa swipes the full delivery straight to the fielder at mid-off

Zampa c Kohli b Pandya 6 (20), Australia 189/9 in 48.2 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia are 188/8. Well this hasn't gone to plan at all for Australia, unless they feel their spinners can do as much damage as Ashwin, Kuldeep and Jadeja. Hardik Pandya to bowl the 49th.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Shot of the day and it has come from the bat of Mitchell Starc. Bumrah goes a little short and Starc pulls it Rohit Sharma style into the crowd.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia 168/8 in 44 overs. Another maiden, this time for Jadeja. The second last ball is edged to the keeper's body off Zampa's bat. It ricochets and bursts up, Rohit jumps at first slip to collect it, gets a finger on it but it was just too high for him to get any control. Then the last delivery turns and bounces outside off and Rahul does well to react to it and take it.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Hit down the ground and held at long-on. Cummins was looking to clear that fielder, he ends up putting it down his throat.

Cummins c Iyer b Bumrah 15 (24), India 165/8 42.2 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Cummins on 15 off 23, Starc on 5 off 12. Nothing working for Australia throughout this innings and so seeing the last ball of the 42nd going away for four leg byes would have been nice for them.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: That is almost magical luck for Cummins. The last ball of that over takes the outside edge and flies between keeper and first slip to the boundary right behind them. Australia are 156/7 in 40 overs and Jasprit Bumrah to bowl the first over of the last powerplay.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Hello there, Cummins gets under the ball, pushes his front leg out of the way and deposits it over cow corner. That is the first six of the day.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: India are officially into Australia's tail. Green looking to cut the second delivery of the 37th from Ashwin that is short and wide. He manages to do that... straight to Hardik Pandya at backward point.

Green c Pandya b Ashwin 8 (20), Australia 140/7 in 36.2 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Maxwell's leg stump is gone. He tries to go for a big mow off side, swings it at with all he has gone and misses it completely. Kuldeep got a lot of revs on it and spun sharply to take the leg stump.

Maxwell b Kuldeep Yadav 15 (25), Australia 140/6 in 35.5 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Maxwell on 14 off 22, Green on 7 off 16. These are not the kind of strike rates that you associate with these batters but what would be frustrating these two even more would be the fact that they are finding it difficult to rotate strike.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: The CSK hero is now doing it in blue at the Chepauk. Slow ball turning towards leg, Carey looking to defend and it hits the pads. The umpire raises his finger, Carey decides against taking the only review that Australia have left.

Carey lbw b Jadeja 0 (2), Australia 119/5 in 29.4 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Labuschagne tries a sweep shot against Jadeja off the second ball of the 30th, Rahul takes the catch standing up and India celebrate. The umpire gives it. Labuschagne takes a few seconds before taking the review. That itself is never a good sign and replays show that he had got a feather of an edge.

Labuschagne c Rahul b Jadeja 27 (41), Australia 119/4 in 29.2 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: And the Indian fielders should be given credit for a large part. Labuschagne tries a scoop shot off the last ball of the 29th over, looks like it would dribble to the boundary behind him and the keeper but Ishan Kishan comes storming in from fine leg and saves it at the rope. Just two runs off it. That makes it one boundary in the last 14 overs for Australia. Australia are 118/3 in 29 overs.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Oh well what do you about tha? Well, in Smith's case, he can only smile ruefully and look at the spot where the ball pitched before ripping apart the trajectory it seemed to be going in and clipping off stump. Angled in, it looked like the ball might be going towards the leg side and Smith plays accordingly. But it just rips past his defence off the pitch and takes the top of off. First ball after a lengthy break and Jadeja strikes.

Smith b Jadeja 46 (71), Australia 110/3 in 27.1 overs

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Bit of a prolonged drinks break. It has been all about survival for Australia thus far. Mitch Marsh fell for a six-ball duck early on and after that a 69-run stand in 85 balls between Warner and Smith helped steady the innings. Warner soon fell to Kuldeep and since then, Smith has been soldiering on with Labuschagne. Australia are 110/2 in 27 overs, Smith on 46 off 70, Labuschange 22 in 34.

India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Rahul tells Kuldeep from behind the stump that Labuschagne is getting frustrated just after Ishan Kishan stops a scoop shot at fine leg quite brilliantly. Almost on cue, Labuschange punches the next ball towards cover where Hardik Pandya makes an excellent stop to keep it down to a single.

Australia are 102/2. We have reached the halfway mark of the innings. Kohli and Rohit having a conversation with Jadeja before he bowls the 26th. The partnership is on 28 off 51 and it has been 33 balls since the last boundary.