India’s worst defeat in history by Australia

Australia suffered their worst ever defeat against India in the second ODI thanks to Mitchell Starc’s devastating bowling.

In the second ODI of the series played at Visakhapatnam, Australia won the toss and elected to bowl first, which proved to be quite correct.

In the very first over of the match, Mitchell Starc gave India their first loss by walking Shubman Gill for a total score of three.

At this stage, the pair of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli took the score to 32 but Mitchell Starc struck two back-to-back strikes to get Rohit Sharma and Surya Kumar Yadav going.

Lokesh Rahul, the hero of the previous match, could not help the team this time and became Starc’s fourth wicket after scoring only 9 runs.

The Indian team was not even able to cope with the loss that Kyle Abbott also ended the innings of Hardik Pandya who scored only one run.

Virat Kohli resisted for a long time and took the score to 71 along with Ravindra Jadeja, but the legendary batsman, who scored 31 runs, gave away the wicket of Nathan Ellis.

Akshar Patel scored 29 runs and Ravindra Jadeja showed some resistance with 16 runs, but despite this, the entire Indian team was bundled out for just 117 runs.

On behalf of Australia, Mitchell Starc took five wickets while doing devastating bowling while Shaun Abbott took three wickets and Nathan Ellis took two wickets.

Chasing the target, Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh took an aggressive approach from the very first ball and completed the team’s half-century in the sixth over.

Both the players continued their excellent performance and completed their respective half-centuries and achieved the target of 118 runs in 11 overs to lead their team to a 10-wicket victory.

Thanks to the success in this match, Australia leveled the three-match series at 1-1.

Australia reached the target with 39 overs or 234 balls to spare and this is the biggest victory by balls against India by any team.

Earlier this record was held by Newsy who had reached the target 212 balls earlier.

This is India’s lowest score against Australia in ODI cricket while India’s fourth lowest overall score in ODI cricket.