Australia Crushed India without Ponting

The impressive Australians crsuh Indiuans in a T20 match in Melourne today. Australian squad was without captain Ricky Ponting, he missed the match due to his injury. Michael Clark did captaincy in this match. Now Clarke enjoy two wins in T20 under his captaincy. They were dismissed in the 18th over and Australia needed less than 12 overs to post their first Twenty20 win against India, with just enough time for Adam Gilchrist to entertain the 84,041-strong crowd in his final match in the shortest format.

The great fielding in the match restrict India to a lowest ever total they have in this format of game. Moreover India was bowled out in their restricted overs. This is a really humiliating defeat for India which put question mark on their world champion ship crown but defeat alone cannot judge the capabilities of Indian qualities in T20 cricket. Even they have loss the match to Australia but the T20 world cup showed their abilities already.

Irfan Pathan was the only player who reached the double figure. We lost too many early wickets and I guess our players did not realise their responsibilities. Each one has a role in the team but they were just not doing what they ought to have done,” said Dhoni who had led India to the T20 World Championship title in South Africa five months ago.

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