Australia have recovered from their early collapse with a 100-plus partnership against India in the final match of the World Cup in Ahmedabad.
Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne made a 115-run stand together to provide a relief from the blow while chasing 241 runs at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday.
In reply to 240, Australia were in a hurry as they picked 15 runs in the first over but lost their way in the second over, with David Warner offering his wicket.
The men in yellow then tried to recover from that but that did not last long. They lost two more wickets on 41 and 47 runs respectively.
Among the departed batters, only Mitchell Marsh (15) was able to cross the two-digit with runs.
After that, Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne came in responsible mind and started building partnership to rescue their team.
Head and Labuschagne remain on the crease on 84 and 34 respectively as Australia accumulated 162 runs losing three wickets after 28 overs.
Jasprit Bumrah took two wickets for India while Mohammad Shami got one.
Earlier, India were bowled out for a below-per-score of 240 runs on account of their dismal batting performance despite picking 80 runs in the first powerplay.
Being asked to bat, the men in blue started well with a healthy run rate adding 80 plus runs on the board in the mandatory powerplay but fell under pressure losing three wickets inside 81 runs.
Skipper Rohit Sharma started well but did not convert his innings big as he departed for 47 playing 31 balls. Falling of wickets in quick succession slowed the run rate down.
After that, India got a 67-run stand between Virat Kohli (54) and KL Rahul (66). Kohli went back to the pavilion after completing his individual fifty.
Rahul then started building partnerships with the batters on the other end. He also departed for 66 playing too many 107 balls.
No other batters could show their promise with the bat as India were forcibly stopped on 240.
Mitchell Starc took the highest three wickets for Australia while each of Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins bagged two.
Playing XIs
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj.
Australia: Travis Head, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis (wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins (c), Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.
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