Australia vs India T20Is: Winners and Losers for the Australian Team

For an Australian team still going through a transition and trying to find the best possible combination, this series provided ample opportunities for players to cement their place.

After the South African series, Finch had come out and said in a press conference that no player's position in the team was secured and they all had to perform to stay in the side. The message was crystal clear and many players were able to put together good performances and stake a claim at the spots.

Some players, on the other hand, had a torrid time and would be really disappointed with how the series went. Let's take a look at who really came out as winners and losers during the series. (Note: For Winners and Losers for the Indian team Click here)

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Winners

#1 Marcus Stoinis

Can Bat, Can Bowl, Can Field...The Complete Package

Australia has really struck gold with Marcus Stoinis. He can bat well, single-handedly win them games, He can bowl at any time of the innings and he's a pretty good fielder. And more importantly, in recent games, he has batted and bowled really well and contributed at important junctures.

Stoinis would be relatively happy with how the series went as well. He was able to perform whenever asked to, either with the bat or the ball. He was the man of the match in the First T20 as he was able to provide momentum to the Innings with the bat and really choked India in the end with the ball.

Stoinis has batted at #4-5 in Odis recently and if he keeps doing the job like he has been doing recently then he can make that spot his.

#2 Adam Zampa

Indians found it really hard to go after Zampa

This series should act as an eye opener for the Australian selection unit. Zampa's performance whenever he got a chance was top notch. He bowled with guile, troubled the best of the batsmen and got them out. In the First T20 he got KL Rahul and Virat Kohli and in the 3rd match, he bamboozled Rohit Sharma.

In both the matches as soon as he was brought out to bowl he bowled with confidence and every batsman found it hard to go after him. The series should help Zampa get more opportunities and maybe even get a chance in the limited overs format as well.

A bowling lineup of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazelwood, Pat Cummins with Adam Zampa to back them up could prove very handy during the world cup where big scores are expected to be the norm.

#3 Glen Maxwell

Glenn Maxwell looked the part throughout the series

It won't be far-fetched to say that Glenn Maxwell was probably the most established batsman from the Australian side. He came out to bat every time when the team was in a state of bother. Whether it was in the first match where he was able to stitch together a partnership with Marcus Stoinis to take Australia to a safe score.

Or whether it was him trying to take Australia out of trouble in the 2nd and 3rd match(although he wasn't quite able to do it completely, he did weather the storm). Throughout the series whenever Australia was in a spot of bother it was Maxwell who looked to be the most capable to guide them through.

Maxwell finally using his head while batting are good signs for an Australian team which really needs Maxwell to perform and take more responsibility.

Losers

#1 Aaron Finch

Leading a Jaded team and not able to set an example by his performance, Things are not looking up for Finch

As mentioned in one of the earlier articles, Aaron Finch has been woefully out of form and hasn't really contributed much with the bat. He's the captain of a team which is still reeling from the aftereffects of the ball-tampering scandal and they look up to him to perform and as the opener, set a platform for them to explode with their middle order.

But with scores of 5,41,11,7, 27,0 and 28 in his last 7 innings, Finch is neither able to set the platform for his team nor is he able to set a platform for them to really post a huge score.

With Smith and Warner out, Finch was the automatic choice to be the captain but with him going through such a rough patch should Australia be looking at someone else now?

#2 Chris Lynn

How long until the patience runs out?

For a brief moment in the first match, Australia would have heaved a sigh of relief as finally, Chris Lynn seemed to have found his range in international cricket. He was smashing the ball into the third tier with ease and just like so many times he had done it in Big Bash, he was able to lift the scoring rate in just two overs.

But then, again, like every other match, Lynn fell. This time to the spin from Kuldeep Yadav. Lynn is a batsman with crazy potential and the ability to be the most destructive batsman in world cricket. But slowly and steadily, some things are becoming clear.

He's not a complete batsman and he's not learning or evolving. He doesn't rotate the strike much not does he look nor those singles early on. He finds it very hard to negotiate spin and it was too evident in the 3rd match when he was just bumped down the order because Kuldeep and Co were batting.

How long does Australia hang on to him if he keeps doing the same things and failing again and again?