Australia will never know what might have happened if Mitch Marsh had taken a difficult catch from Virat Kohli. But afterwards, he stole the match away from them.
For as long as Virat Kohli’s popped top-edged pull from Josh Hazlewood hung in the steamy Chepauk air, so did Australia’s suddenly alive prospects of upsetting India in this World Cup opener, making a distant memory of their pre-tournament woes and perhaps supplanting the host as the team to beat. It had happened here before.
Hazlewood blamed no one. “I think it was Mitch’s catch and Carey got quite close in the end and might have just put Mitch off,” he said. “It’s a dropped catch, one of those things that happened.” By then, he and Rahul had added 165 and paced their country to the threshold of a four-wicket victory.Rahul finished the match by handsomely driving Australian captain Pat Cummins over long off for six to strand himself on 97 not out, whereupon non-striker Hardik Pandya shook his head at the bittersweetness of it all.
Other than that 12-ball, three-wicket counterpunch at the top of India’s innings, this was a largely forgettable opening sally for Australia, in which their recent shortcomings were again exposed: inability to accelerate with the bat and lack of penetration in spin bowling. Hazlewood refuted the idea that the spin department was lacking, saying he regarded Maxwell in India as a frontliner, but conditions had militated against rather than for them this day.
David Warner, Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne all toiled in vain to force the pace. When the squeeze became too much, Australia lost 5/30. Smith alone could be said to have been dismissed by an unplayable ball, a Ravindra Jadeja jaffa, straightening past his outside to bowl him. The Indian tweakers are a true ensemble too, each a virtuoso in a different key of their craft. In their collective 30 overs, they took 6/94.
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