IND vs AUS / Western Australia XI Beat India by 36 runs in second practice match

T20 World Cup 2022: Even before the T20 World Cup, the pole of the players of Team India has remained open. Team India is currently playing a practice match in Perth to prepare for the T20 World Cup. Before the T20 World Cup, a shocking news is coming out of Australia. A third-class team from Australia defeated the strong team India by 36 runs. In the practice match played in Perth on Thursday, Team India was defeated by Western Australia XI by 36 runs.

Team India's poll exposed even before T20 World Cup

In this match, KL Rahul played an innings of 74 runs in 55 balls, but it went in vain. Batting first, Western Australia scored 168 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs and gave India a target of 169 runs to win. In reply, Team India could score only 132 runs in 20 overs for the loss of 8 wickets, in which Rahul's 74 runs included 9 fours and 2 sixes.

Australia's third-tier team defeated

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav did not bat in India's innings, Hardik Pandya scored 17 and Dinesh Karthik scored 10 runs. Deciding to bowl first, Josh Philippe was dismissed early on by Arshdeep Singh on a bouncy pitch. Darcy Short (52 runs in 38 balls) and Nick Hobson (64 runs in 41 balls) shared a perfect 100-run partnership.

Ravichandran Ashwin bowled brilliantly

The partnership of more than 100 runs came to an end when Darcy Short was run out. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin then caught Ashton Turner and Sam Fanning in successive deliveries and dismissed Cameron Bancroft in the same over. Ashwin took 3 wickets. From the bowlers point of view, Harshal Patel has bowled brilliantly after being expensive in recent times and took 2 wickets, while Arshdeep took 1 wicket in his three overs.

Rishabh Pant fails again

Rishabh Pant failed again while chasing the target of 169 as left-arm pacer Jason Behrendorff put constant pressure on him. Rishabh Pant was eventually dismissed for 9 off Behrendorff's delivery. India got another blow when fast bowler Lance Morris dismissed Deepak Hooda to make India's score 39/2 in 8 overs.

Hardik Pandya looks in good rhythm

Hardik Pandya looked in good form before being dismissed by left-arm spinner Hamish McKenzie. At that time, Hardik Pandya returned to the pavilion at 58/3 in India's 10th over with Rahul scoring 21 off 28 balls and Rahul trying to chase down the target at one end. Morris was troubling India with his fast pace, due to which Axar Patel was dismissed for just two runs off his ball.

India far short of target

McKenzie got another breakthrough by dismissing Dinesh Karthik and despite Rahul scoring a 43-ball half-century as well as taking 20 runs from Behrendorff in the back-end of the innings, India were well short of the target. Morris was impressive with his four overs (2 for 23) for the Western Australia XI.

India will take on Australia on October 17

India will now play two warm-up matches in Brisbane on October 17 against defending champions Australia and last year's runners-up New Zealand on October 19. The first Men's T20 World Cup winners in 2007, India, along with Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa and the two qualifying teams from the tournament's first round, are in Group 2 of the Super 12 stage in the T20 World Cup.