It was Virat Kohli's brilliance and Dinesh Karthik's exuberance that helped India cross the line and level the series 1-1.
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Tye to bowl the last over. A couple of dot balls. Kohli is baffled.
Kohli hits a FOUR! straight down the ground in a tense moment.
The fielders close in. Kohli goes over the top to hit another FOUR!
Kohli is elated and so are the Indian fans at the SCG! INDIA WIN!
Starc to bowl. A two, and a single on the first two balls. Karthik steers a crispy FOUR! through the point region. SCG is on its foot! Singles, and two to end the over.
Only 5 runs in the last 6 balls | Whose game?
Tye continues. Virat Kohli hits a single, and completes his HALF-CENTURY!
Dinesh rocks back a pull shot for a stupendous SIX!
India need 16 runs from 12 balls!
Maxwell into the attack. A couple of singles and a SIX! A run-out chance missed. A single on the last ball. India need 27 runs from 18 balls.
Virat Kohli helps score a FOUR! SIX! in the over. India still in the hunt!
Zampa continues. Only four runs from the over! India need 52 runs in 30 balls. Interesting change of the game here.
Tye brought into the attack. Rishabh Pant is the new man in; however, he is CAUGHT! on the first ball. Consistent wickets hurt India. Enter DK!
Maxwell to bowl another. The move pays off as KL Rahul loses cool and holes out to the long off fielder. Rahul is CAUGHT! A turnaround here?
Zampa continues, only 7 runs from the over. The leg-spinner is bowling outlandishly here.
Maxwell continues, only 3 runs from it. Two good economical overs from the off-spinner here.
Zampa brought back. Rahul and Kohli playing diligently at the moment. A FOUR on the last delivery spoils the good over. Zampa concedes 11 after a maiden first over.
Glenn Maxwell to bowl now. Only 3 runs conceded from the first over. A good one for Australia here.
Coulter-Nile to continue. Just as when things were going back to Aussies' way, KL Rahul hits a SIX! A couple of singles to end with. 11 runs from it.
Adam Zampa is introduced. Rohit Sharma is BOWLED! after surviving a close LBW appeal. India lose two in two. KL Rahul is the new batsman in.
Starc to bowl. Dhawan is LBW! after a DRS REVIEW!
Australia breathe a sigh of relief. Virat Kohli is the new man in. India chip away with a huge chunk of the target in the first POWERPLAY!
Stoinis into the attack. Dhawan and Rohit Sharma go berserk! SIX, SIX, FOUR, FOUR! in the over. 22 runs from the over.
Coulter-Nile continues. Rohit hits the first SIX! of India's innings. Dhawan ends with a SIX! and a FOUR! 20 runs from the over.
Starc sends down a fiery over. Dhawan ends with a cracking FOUR! 8 runs from the over.
Coulter-Nile to begin. Two FOURs in the over help Men in Blue compensate for the previous over too.
While Australia will be fighting for the series win, India, on the other hand, will be hoping to draw level in the third and final T20 International at the Sydney Cricket Ground. More than the Australian team, it is the weather that has frustrated the visitors. The opening T20I, which Australia won, was affected by rain and the revised target for India was set to 174 in 17 overs. The second match was washed out after heavens opened up and no result was possible. The fans will be hoping for a dry weather and full game of cricket in Sydney. Stay tuned for Ind vs Aus 3rd T20 live score updates. Live Cricket Streaming of India vs Australia 3rd T20I 2018 on SonyLiv: Check Live Cricket Score, Watch Free Telecast of IND vs AUS on TV & Online.
India have never lost the third match of a bilateral T20I series. It is nine out of nine for team India when it comes to the third game in a bilateral T20I series. The visitors will be hoping to make it ten. Apart from it, India are unbeaten in nine consecutive series and when they take the field in Sydney, the Kohli-led side will be looking to keep that record intact as well.
After a whitewash against Pakistan and a defeat in a one-off T20I against South Africa, Australia will be looking for a series win. The struggling Aussie side will be desperate to notch a win. Meanwhile, the hosts have added pacer Mitchell Starc to the squad for the final game and he is expected to play in Sydney. India vs Australia 3rd T20I 2018: Check Out the Weather Forecast of Sydney as Virat Kohli and Co Look to Draw Level in the Series.
Australia Probable XI: Aaron Finch (c), D'Arcy Short, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Ben McDermott, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa, Jason BehrendorffNathan Coulter-Nile.
India Probable XI: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (c), KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed.
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