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India managed a modest 240 after they were put in to bat, with half-centuries from Kohli and Rahul after Rohit gave them another rollicking start. But the Australia bowlers’ excellent bowling on a slow pitch restricted the hosts, and their batters then chased it down with 42 balls remaining, led by a match-winning 137 from Travis Head, who was named the Player of the Match.
“Honestly, the result hasn’t gone our way,” Rohit said at the post-match presentation, “And we know that we were not good enough today. But I’m really proud of the team, how we played from game one. It wasn’t our day, we tried everything we could from our side but it wasn’t supposed to be.
“Honestly, 20-30 [runs] more would’ve been good. We spoke around 25-30 overs when KL and Virat were batting. I thought when they were batting they were stitching a good partnership there and then we just needed to bat as long as possible. We were looking at 270-280 at that point, but then we kept losing wickets. We couldn’t stitch a big partnership there, and that’s exactly what Australia did to win the game. They stitched a big partnership after that three [early] wickets.”
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