In their first warm-up match in the T20 World Cup (T20 WC), Team India made a great start by defeating hosts Australia by 6 runs. The hero of the Indian team’s victory was Mohammed Shami, he took 3 wickets in the last over. Rohit Sharma told the reason for giving him the last over.

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Rohit Sharma said that I thought we batted well, in the end we could have added 10-15 runs more. We always wanted a set batsman to last till the end, Suriya did it. Overall a great batting effort with good bounce, a pitch where you can trust your shots. You have to be smart to bat on these kind of grounds. You can’t forget to push the balls into the gap, scoring 8-9 runs in an over can be a very effective plan. It was a very good practice match for us.

Mohammed Shami is making a comeback after a long time

The Indian captain further said that there is room for improvement, but I want more consistency from the bowlers. You need to keep things simple and hit the deck hard. Overall it was a good game for us, they (Finch-Maxwell) had a good partnership and it put pressure on us. Mohammed Shami is coming back after a long time, so we wanted to give him an over. I wanted to challenge him by giving him the last over and you see he did.

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The Indian team did a great job while batting first. KL Rahul scored a fifty. After him Suryakumar Yadav also did something similar. Dinesh Karthik also made a decent contribution and the Indian team scored 186 runs for 7 wickets. In reply, Aaron Finch scored 76 runs for Australia. 11 runs were needed in the last over to win. Mohammed Shami dismissed three players and made one run out and Australia were bundled out for 180. Mohammed Shami bowled an over and took 3 wickets.