India vs Australia 1st T20I: Three reasons why India lost the close encounter

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#3 Umesh Yadav's last over

Glenn Maxwell
Glenn Maxwell

Anyone who saw today's game will have obtained an insight as to why Jasprit Bumrah is regarded as the best bowler in the world. He was asked to bowl the penultimate over and he responded with wickets of Peter Handscomb and the dangerous Nathan Coulter-Nile, while just giving away two runs.

India thus clearly had the upper hand while Umesh Yadav was coming in to bowl the last over, but things really went haywire since.

The pacer's death-bowling was literally all over the place, with him not resorting to any consistent line and length, probably to create confusion in the minds of the new and unsettled batsmen who had just walked in since the last over.

Though that was fair on Umesh's part, two of his balls were fairly loose deliveries, both of them slow and meaty enough for Pat Cummins and Jhye Richardson to smack for fours, and the game got over on an anticlimactic note.

Bumrah and Mohammad Shami have more or less sealed their World Cup spots, with a third spot open for grabs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav are touted to be contesting for the coveted position but this kind of a death bowling will not help the Vidarbha bowler's case.

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