India has defeated Australia by 9 wickets in the third ODI. Rohit Sharma made an important contribution to Team India’s victory by playing the match-winning inning of 121 runs. On the other hand, Virat Kohli also returned unbeaten after playing a half-century inning of 74 runs. India may have won the third ODI match played in Sydney, but Australia has won the series 2-1. This is also the first win of Shubman Gill as ODI captain.

The Indian bowlers did not allow the Australian batsmen to play even the full 50 overs. Batting first, the Kangaroo team was able to score only 236 runs. Harshit Rana took the maximum of 4 wickets for India, which is also Harshit’s best performance in any ODI match so far.

Virat-Rohit Sharma shined

Team India, which was chasing the small target of 237 runs, lost the wicket of Shubman Gill at the score of 69. Shubman Gill was out after scoring only 24 runs. Gill’s bat remained silent in this series, scoring only 43 runs in 3 innings. But Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma together took the lead and gave India victory.

Rohit Sharma played an unbeaten inning of 121 runs, which was the 33rd century of his ODI career and 50th century of his international career. They made a not out partnership of 168 runs for the second wicket. This was the 19th time in ODI, when Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma had a partnership of more than 100 runs. Now only Sachin Tendulkar-Sourav Ganguly and Kumar Sangakkara-Tilakaratne Dilshan are ahead of him in terms of highest partnership of 100+ runs.

Shubman Gill’s first win

Before the Australian tour, Shubman Gill was appointed the new ODI captain. Under his captaincy, Team India lost the first match by 7 wickets. The second ODI match played in Adelaide was close, but there too India lost by 2 wickets. After losing the first two matches as captain, Gill has finally hoisted the flag in Sydney.