David Warner’s century inspired Australia to a victory in the fourth one day international against India, restoring some pride for the tourists with the series already lost.
His 124 runs in his 100th match helped his side set India 335 to win, a target that the hosts fell 22 runs short of after some magnificent bowling at the death from Australia.
A 231 run opening stand between Warner and Aaron Finch laid a superb foundation For the Kangaroos after Steve Smith won the toss and chose to bat.
A mini collapse halted the momentum of the innings as Warner Finch (94) and Smith (three) fell in the space of 14 balls with Australia losing 3 wickets for 5 runs.
Travis Head who was sent ahead of Steve Smith couldn’t get going and fell for 29 runs off 38 balls.
Peter Handscomb made a handy 43, while Marcus Stoinis chipped in with 15 from nine balls to round out Australia’s innings.
David Warner’s century inspired Australia to a victory in the fourth one day international against India, restoring some pride for the tourists with the series already lost.
With India having won the five-match series 3-0, Australia ended an 11 game losing streak away from home in Thursday’s fourth ODI in Bangalore.
India were on the verge of the target until an outstanding piece of fielding from Steve Smith, gave Australia a crucial breakthrough at 1-135. His brilliant save at backward point sparked confusion between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who ended up at the same end as Rohit sacrificed his wicket after scoring a magnificent 65 Runs of 55 Balls.
Kohli, who had a life when he was dropped by Travis Head on six, couldnt make use of the opportunity as he edged an attempted late cut off Nathan Coulter-Nile onto his stumps for 21 Runs.
Hardik Pandya and Kedar Jadhav put on 78 for the fourth wicket until Adam Zampa who went for 41 runs off his first five overs, got better for him by clamming the vital wicket of Pandya (41) who was caught on the boundary by David Warner.
Kedar Jadhav’s (67), Manish Pandey’s 33 runs werent good enough and MS Dhoni who surprisingly came down at 7 scored a brisk (13) was unable to get his side past the finishing line.