Australia vs India 2018: 5 unnoticed records from the T20I series

India is currently in the tour to Australia to play three T20I's, four Tests and three ODIs. The T20 series ended 1-1 for each side.

The first match of the series was played in Gabba, Brisbane. Having put on to bat first Australia made 158 for the loss of seven wickets and the match was reduced to 17 overs overdue to rain interruption.

India was given a target of 174 by Duckworth Lewis Method calculation. India lost the game by four runs.

The second match was held at Melbourne cricket ground. Australia batted first again and scored 132 for the loss of seven wickets before rain interrupted the play for the second consecutive game in the series. Further rain delay, made the match end in a no contest.

Sydney was the host for the third game. With a good weather on a Sunday evening, Australia batted first for the third time in the series on a slow track and scored 164 in 20 overs and India chased the score with two balls to spare.

Shikhar Dhawan was named the Man of the series for his scores of 74 and 41 in the two innings he played.

Here we look at the five records that were unnoticed in the T20 series:

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#1` Marcus Stoinis picked up two wickets in a T20I for the first time

Stoinis has improved on his bowling

Marcus Stoinis has become a part of the Australian side in the limited overs format in the past two years.

He made his T20 debut against England in 2015 and has played 17 matches since then. He is a middle-order batsman who can bowl in the middle overs.

Playing primarily as a batsman in his first few matches in international career, his bowling has been improved in the last few months as he picked up 3 for 18 in an ODI against South Africa earlier this month.

In the first match of the series in Gabba, Brisbane. He picked up the wickets of DK and Krunal Pandya in the last over.

He was given the opportunity to bowl the last over where he had to defend 13 runs. Krunal scored two of the first and he got out in the third ball caught at long on and DK was caught out in long off the next ball.

India lost the match by four runs and this was the first time Marcus Stoinis has picked up more than wicket in T20 International. This spell came six days after the announcement that he is going to play for RCB in the next IPL.

#2 India's nine-match unbeaten run while chasing came to an end

India was on a nine-match unbeaten run while chasing

Team India, like its captain, likes to chase the target these days. They have created good records while chasing a target.

India was on a nine-match unbeaten run while chasing. The last time India failed to chase was in a match against New Zealand at Rajkot where Colin Munro scored a century and New Zealand won the match by 40 runs.

India won nine matches while chasing since then. They have done it thrice during the Nidahas trophy and twice during the England tour and twice against Windies and once while squaring off with Sri Lanka in the home series.

A win in the first match at Gabba would have made it ten out of ten during chases, but India lost the match by a mere margin of four runs.

But they went on to win the third match while chasing 164 runs to level the series. Incidentally, Captain Kohli scored an unbeaten 61 to make sure that India won the game with ease.

#3 Kohli scored his first T20 international fifty of 2018

Kohli promoted himself to bat at No. 3 during the Sydney match and remained not out, scored 61 runs and won the match for India, which helped to level the series 1-1

Virat Kohli has been in red-hot form in Tests and ODIs and is the leading run scorer in international cricket in 2018, though he played only a few T20 matches.

He was rested from the Indian squad for the Nidahas trophy, Asia Cup and the home T20 matches against Windies.

He returned to the squad for the Australian T20 matches. Having batted at No. 4 for most of the T20 matches this year, Kohli failed to perform well during the first match.

But he promoted himself to bat at No. 3 during the Sydney match and remained not out, scored 61 runs and won the match for India, which helped to level the series 1-1.

Incidentally, this was the first T20 fifty for Kohli in 2018 and with this knock, the Indian captain has scored the most fifties in T20 Internationals with a total of 19.

And his average stands tall at 49.25 in T20Is the only format where his international average is less than 50. And it won't take much time before it crosses 50.

#4 Pant became the second Indian Wicket keeper to get out for a duck

Pant was in good form by scoring his first T20 fifty against Windies before the Australian series and much was expected from him

MS Dhoni has been a prominent feature in the Indian batting line up in the past decade and has been in the T20 side for most of the tours.

Due to the doubts concerning about his future, India decided to drop him from the T20 side for the Australian tour.

Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik were selected in place of the former Indian captain, and the Delhi lad took the role of Wicketkeeper.

Pant was in good form by scoring his first T20 fifty against Windies before the Australian series and much was expected from him. He scored a 15-ball 20 in the first match in which India lost by four runs.

During the third match, India needed 58 when he came to bat, but he soon got out for a golden duck trying to pull a short ball of Andrew Tye.

He gloved the ball to the hands of his opposite number Alex Carey. Incidentally, this was the second time where an Indian wicketkeeper got out for a duck in T20 international match.

The first one was MS Dhoni in India’s first ever T20 international match against South Africa in 2006.

#5 Rohit Sharma has hit 1000 boundaries in international cricket

Australia v India - T20

Since his debut in 2007, Rohit Sharma played most of his career as a middle-order batsman and it was in 2013 when he was promoted as an opener.

Since then he has become one of the best openers in world cricket. He scored most of the runs in his career batting at the top.

He has scored three double hundreds in ODIs and four T20I hundreds. He was the part of Indian side which won the T20 World Cup in South Africa and has won the Champions Trophy in 2013.

He was named the deputy of Virat Kohli in the limited overs format. He led the Indian side and won the Asian trophy during the absence of Kohli.

In the third T20 match vs. Australia in Sydney, Rohit Sharma hit his 1000th boundary in International cricket with the last 500 coming in just 123 innings. Besides that Rohit Sharma has hit 302 sixes in the international cricket.