It is Australia's first T20I victory against India on Indian soil and also their first in eight encounters between the two sides.
On Tuesday Australia outplayed Indian in all departments to register an 8-wicket victory against India in 2nd T20 played at Guwahati.
Left-arm pacer Jason Behrendorff set up his side's with a brilliant opening spell. Behrendorff, playing only his second T20I for Australia, ripped India's top order apart with a spell of 4/21 that restricted Virat Kohli and Co to 118 all out.
Behrendorff dismissed Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the very first over and then claimed the wicket of Manish Pandey and Shikhar Dhawan to put India on backfoot.
Kedar Jadhav (27) was the highest scorer for India, with allrounder Hardik Pandya's 25 helping the hosts get into triple figures. Jadhav and MS Dhoni looked like bringing India to relative safety but Adam Zampa outfoxed Dhoni to have him stumped. The legspinner took 2/19 which included the wicket of Jadhav too.
India lost wickets at regular intervals and were all out on the very last ball of the innings at 118.
Chasing 119, Australia suffered two early blows in the form of captain David Warner (2) and Aaron Finch (8), who were back in the hut at 13/2 by the third over. Jasprit Bumrah got the wicket of Warner whie Bhuvneshwar Kumar took Finch's wicket. Both of them were caught at cover by Virat Kohli.
It looked like that India will be able to make a comeback in the game but Moises Henriques (62*) and Travis Head (48*) added 109 runs in their unbeaten partnership for the third wicket and completed a facile win with 4.3 overs to spare.
The series-decider will be played in Hyderabad on October 13.
