India vs Australia 5th T20 Highlights: Match abandoned due to rain, IND win series 2-1

And we have an official confirmation and it's not good news. The match has been abandoned due to rain which means India win the series 2-1

After this series, India will head home for an all-format series against South Africa

1st Test: Nov 14-18

2nd Test: Nov 22-26

1st ODI: Nov 30

2nd ODI: Dec 3

3rd ODI: Dec 6

1st T20I: Dec 9

2nd T20I: Dec 11

3rd T20I: Dec 14

4th T20I: Dec 17

5th T20I: Dec 19

“To be honest, I’m not able to think about this right now. Maybe, I will realise after a few months what we have achieved. What we have given our country. I can’t process this right now. I spoke about the same with Amol (Muzumdar) sir, it feels like we have won some bilateral series and we’re going back home. The impact of it is something we’ll realise in a few months. Right now, it just feels like a dream,” she said.

The official broadcasters had revealed a few minutes ago that the rain had stopped but live visuals show that it has begun to rain once again.

Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Brendan Doggett, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc, Jake Weatherald, Beau Webster

Even as Mumbai fought their way out of trouble against Himachal Pradesh out in the middle in their Ranji Trophy fixture, a familiar figure was seen at the nets inside the Sharad Pawar Bandra-Kurla Complex ground nets. At lunch on Day 1, Rohit Sharma made his way to the practice area situated behind the ground even as Dhawal Kulkarni and other coaches worked on the reserve bowlers.

Wearing a blue shirt and shorts with a black cap, the 38-year-old was seen doing light sprints just outside the nets on a sunny afternoon. Abhishek Nayar, with whom Sharma has trained recently, was not present on Saturday. (Read more)

Cash awards, cars, land, government jobs, endorsements and a million new followers.

These are the rewards that have come the way of India’s World Cup-winning women’s team after lifting the trophy last Sunday. But there’s more — in a first, the Madhya Pradesh government has promised the team’s new-ball bowler, Kranti Gaud, that it is revoking her father’s decade-and-a-half-old suspension from the post of police constable. (Read more)

“The thing with Gill is that when conditions don’t favour batting, you can always put your money on Shubman Gill because of his technique, because of his poise, and because of his game awareness. He knows exactly what wicket offers, what kind of stroke play, and he plays according to that. So you need somebody like him in the T20 setup,” Varun Aaron said on said on Star Sports.

“Shafali, you are from Rohtak, it’s where pehelwans are born … How did you venture into this world of cricket? .. You never went to an akhada?” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s questions to Shafali Verma made the World Cup final’s Player of the Match, go down the proverbial memory lane. More precisely, in her case, the Sunaar Gully, where a failed cricketer turned-jeweler wanted his children to be what he couldn’t. “My father wanted to be a cricketer but he couldn’t. So he wanted his chhavi (reflection) in his children,” Shafali told the PM.

It was a short answer that didn’t do justice to the efforts of an obsessive father who had seen his sporting ambitions die, but ensured his dreams were reborn. Shafali knew there was a time and place to chronicle a father’s contribution and the tightly-scheduled felicitation of the World Cup winning team at PM’s home wasn’t one. Anyways, even the gist of her ‘believe it or not’ fairytale would have taken all day. (Read more from Sandeep Dwivedi)

India (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma(w), Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

Australia (Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh(c), Matthew Short, Josh Inglis(w), Tim David, Josh Philippe, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa

Abhishek Sharma’s run rampage continued as he waltzed to the top of the T20I scoring charts when he became the fastest man to reach 1000 T20I runs during the fifth India versus Australia match at Gabba on Saturday.

Opening the batting for the Men in Blue, Sharma reached the milestone when he reached 11 runs in 7 deliveries, completing the 1000-run milestone in only his 29th innings since his debut in July 2024. (Read more)

Well, we have some bad news, folks. The groundsmen have brought in the covers. It is not a heavy one, but the commentators reckon there might be a possibility of lightning, so both sets of players have gone back. Do stay with us if there is any update, we will give you. Meanwhile, we will be plugging in lovely copies from our writers.

Well, do not get confused, folks, it is not the same update Abhishek gave another opportunity, and he has been split again. The ball went high in the air as Abhishek tried to pull against Nathan Ellis, and the ball hit the outside edge of the bat and went high in the air, and Ben Dwarshuis on the boundary spilt it. It has been a bit of an iffy start for Abhishek; that is the game he plays: risk and reward. Meanwhile, Shubman Gill from the other end has started quite quickly here. He has gone into overdrive quite quickly in the game.

Abhishek Sharma has been dropped in the opening over here, and it is Glenn Maxwell at long-off who spilt the opportunity. It was a fuller one from Ben Dwarshuis, and Abhishek tried to whack one down the ground and skied, and the rest of the events followed as mentioned above. It is a pretty clever field set from Mitchell Marsh to have long-on early in the piece, as it encourages the bowlers to pitch the ball up and look for some swing. It is quite humid out there, and Oddball just might swing late after pitching.

The crowd is buzzing here in Brisbane. It is the final game, not a lot at stake for India, but as per the hosts, they want to win the game and end the series all square. It is quite humid here, hence there will be no dew. It is going to be a cracking game of cricket do stay with us.

There are some cracks in the middle, will be some help for the new ball bowlers. Pitch is hard and there's even grass.

Going to bowl first. Looks a good surface, always great to come here and play at this great stadium. Certainly a chance to draw the series. Lots to play for. Both teams have played some great cricket. Was bit of an indifferent surface. India bowled superbly. Different conditions tonight. No changes.

Until you're winning the game and losing the toss, it's fine. Want to go out and express ourselves. Always good to understand what the team's goal is. All batters realised it wasn't a 200 wicket. All boxes ticked in the last game, just want to continue the same. Always good to win bilaterals. At the same time, what combination you want is more important. Other than openers, this is one format where everyone has to be flexible with batting positions. One change - Tilak is resting, Rinku comes in.

Mitchell Marsh(c), Matthew Short, Josh Inglis(w), Tim David, Josh Philippe, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa

Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma(w), Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

“Obviously I knew it was tough because wickets were falling back to back. The message that I got from the dressing room was to take it to the last over because there weren’t any batsmen after me. So I thought I would take a chance in the last over. The side boundaries were big but I thought if I could hold my shape and watch the ball, I could clear them,” Axar said in video on BCCI.tv.

“It does take time (to make adjustments), and it’s through trial and error that you really realise exactly what you need to do to make those adjustments, and playing in different conditions as well,” Watson is quoted as saying by PTI.

“But Shubman is a ridiculously talented batter. He’s got an amazing technique. It’s not going to take him long at all to be able to really navigate his way through the different formats because when someone is as highly skilled as he is, it’s not going to take him too long.”

“When people raise questions about Shubman Gill being in the T20 setup, it never makes sense to me because this is what he gives you when everybody else fails on a wicket that is slightly difficult compared to the other wickets in this whole series. He gives you a 46, which is worth its weight in gold,” he added.

“The thing with Gill is that when conditions don’t favour batting, you can always put your money on Shubman Gill because of his technique, because of his poise, and because of his game awareness. He knows exactly what wicket offers, what kind of stroke play, and he plays according to that. So you need somebody like him in the T20 setup,” Varun Aaron said on said on Star Sports.

Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Brendan Doggett, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc, Jake Weatherald, Beau Webster

“No question the India v Aussie series of late down under have been more competitive .. but don’t tell they are bigger than an Ashes .. the build up down in Oz for this Ashes is absolutely huge .. you don’t that for an IND v Oz series ..,”

Credit to all the batters, especially Abhishek and Shubman. The way they started in the powerplay was smart, they realized early it wasn’t a typical wicket for 200+. Everyone chipped in, and it was a complete team effort with the bat. The messages were clear from outside as well, me and Gauti bhai were on the same page. The bowlers adapted quickly, especially with a bit of dew coming in. The way they bowled was fantastic. It’s great to have bowlers who can give you two or three overs, and on some days even four. It depends on the situation, some days Washington bowls four, some days Shivam or Arshdeep might bowl less. This flexibility suits us. Everyone’s ready to step up and do what the team needs.

According to AccuWeather, there are chances of thunderstorms later in the day when the match will be played. However, that is quite normal in Queensland at this time of the year and it should not interfere with the match in any way. It could be windy which might have a say in the areas that the batters target for their sixes. The match is scheduled to start at 7.15pm local time.

As is famously the case in Test cricket, the Gabba is known to provide good bounce to the fast bowlers in T20 cricket. However, Big Bash League games at this ground have often been high scoring affairs, which means that the ball does tend to come on nicely to the bat as well. India had faced difficulties on a bouncy track in Perth during the first ODI of this tour but the bounce at the Gabba won’t be two-paced, which was the case on the Gold Coast. A high-scoring match could be on offer.

“If Sanju Samson were playing, there would be no confusion, but with Shubman Gill as vice-captain playing in all matches, Sanju Samson seems sidelined. Jitesh Sharma is seen as a better finisher at number five or six than Sanju, which works in Sharma’s favor. But because Gill is being groomed as a future captain and player, Sanju has lost his spot. Sanju’s record is excellent, strike rate of around 150. But they are backing players by the batting number position now,” Kaif said on his YouTube channel.

“The powerplay is the most important phase with the bat in a T20 game. Depending on who the openers are and based on the start they give, if the rest of the batting lineup capitalises on it, the end score can be formidable. If a player like Abhishek Sharma maximises that phase, it transforms into powerful play. Yet if he gets out, it turns into a powercut. So Abhishek Sharma will be the biggest X-factor for India in the T20 World Cup,” said Ramesh.

“When the Abhishek Sharma storm strikes, India score big. Infact the Abhishek Sharma – Shubman Gill combination feels like a table fan (Gill) during a storm (Abhishek). So we also assume that the days the storm is in full force, the table fan is operating fine as there is a strong wind and hence no problems. But when the storm doesn’t strike, we’ll ask why there is no air coming out of the table fan in the powerplay,” Ramesh said on his YouTube channel.

Mitch Marsh (c), Matt Short, Josh Inglis (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Tim David, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen/Josh Philippe, Nathan Ellis, Xavier Bartlett, Adam Zampa, Mahli Beardman/Ben Dwarshius

Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shivam Dube, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

Hello and welcome to our live blog of India taking on Australia. The Indian dominance on Australian soil in this format of the game continued as they are yet to be beaten in a bilateral series, and this one again, they cannot be beaten, but Australia can level the series if they manage to win today. Do stay with us, it is going to be a fascinating game of cricket.