Australia v India Cricket news, live scores, fixtures, features ball bu ball coverage.SYDNEY – Australia finished 2011 champion India's unbeaten run at the World Cup with a 95-run triumph Thursday that guaranteed the competition co-hosts will meet in the last. Steve Smith scored 105 and imparted a 182-run organization with Aaron Finch (81) to help Australia post 328-7, a record for a World Cup knockout match.
India began its pursuit unquestionably, with openers Shikhar Dhawan (45) and Rohit Sharma (34) surviving early alarms to get the aggregate to 76 in the thirteenth over before Josh Hazlewood got through to change the force of the innings. Mitchell Johnson ringed in with two snappy wickets and India was in the long run out for 233 regardless of M.S. Dhoni's late cameo of 65.
Australia will play unbeaten New Zealand in Sunday's title match. New Zealand edged Australia by one wicket in the gathering stage to complete on Pool A, then beat South Africa with a ball to extra in the elimination round at Auckland."To play a World Cup last against New Zealand at the MCG will be completely astounding," Smith said. "Ideally an alternate hundred eventual pleasant."
India had won 11 sequential World Cup matches going back to a gathering stage misfortune to South Africa in 2011. It completed off the past competition with wins over West Indies, Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and after that won its initial seven matches in the 2015 release, turning into the main group to bowl out its restriction against all odds.
India had most of the backing in the swarm with a tremendous unforeseen of voyaging fans at the Sydney Cricket Ground however was not able to underwrite at a venue where it has just once already beaten Australia in a constrained overs global.
Australia won the hurl and chose to bat, and the Indian pacemen began well with Mohammed Shami beating the edge twice in the opening over and knocking down some pins a lady in the third. Umesh Yadav (4-72) released David Warner (12) to have Australia in a bad position at 15-1 in the fourth over.
That conveyed Smith to the wrinkle, and he got where he exited off in the preworld Cup matches against India. He scored a century in each of the four matches in the test arrangement and 47 in an one-dayer amid a stretch of two months when India didn't win a match on Australian soil. His second-wicket association with Finch gave Australia a flying begin and a strong establishment before India energized with Yadav (4-72) uprooting them both one after another.
Smith confronted 93 balls and hit 11 limits and two sixes preceding Yadav hit with the first bundle of his second spell, making the score 197-2 in the 35th over.At the point when James Faulkner, who had been pounded for 23 runs by Dhawan in his initial two overs, got into the demonstration by rejecting Suresh Raina (7), India had lost four of their most desired wickets for the expansion of only 32 races to tumble to 108-4.
Johnson's bowling was as strong as it has been all competition and the conveyance that clean played Rohit a ball after the opener had the nerve to hit him for six sent one safeguard flying 20 feet behind the stumps.
Dhoni and Ajinkya Rahane (44) start remaking the innings with an organization of 70 however when the commander was run out wandering down the wicket by a direct hit from Glenn Maxwell, the kick the bucket was thrown. "We returned well yet we could have bowled better," said Dhoni, who said he would not be resigning.
"Many individuals did not think we'd come so far in the competition." Faulkner included a twist by bowling Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohit Sharma in progressive conveyances to complete with 3-59 yet Umesh Yadav hindered the cap trap ball.
Smith had prior repeated his part as India's tormentor-in-boss, seldom looking pained in his 122-moment, 93-ball thump and imparting a second-wicket organization of 182 with opener Aaron Finch (81).
The 25-year-old hit 11 fours and two sixes to give India an impolite indication of his productive structure in the test arrangement around New Year, when he scored a century in each of the four matches.
He secured his fourth straight half century at the World Cup in 53 balls and was soon surging towards his fourth ODI century, which he secured from 89 balls with a six and a four off progressive conveyances. With Yadav (4-72) to the fore, nonetheless, India struck back to uproot Smith and after that the force hitters in Australia's center request.
A late Johnson cameo of 27 not out off nine balls helped reinforce Australia's count and India will regret their inability to release their adversaries without precedent for eight matches at the World Cup.
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