By: Eastern Eye Staff
Skipper Virat Kohli hailed Hardik Pandya’s game-changing performance Sunday (17) after the all-rounder powered India to a 26-run win over Australia in the rain-hit first one-day international. Pandya smashed a 66-ball 83 and claimed two wickets to give the hosts a 1-0 lead in the five-match series at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium. Chasing a revised target of 164 in 21 overs after rain delays, Australia were frustrated by wrist spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav who shared five wickets between them. They ended on 137-9. But it was Pandya’s gritty 118-run sixth-wicket stand with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who made 79, that lifted India from…
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