Top 5 T20I matches between India and Australia

#4. Super 10 Group 2, World T20 at Chandigarh, Mar 27 2016

India beat Australia in the final over to qualify for the semifinal of World T20

Australia - 160/6

India - 161/4 (19.1)

India won by 6 wickets with 5 balls remaining

The second match on this list is also a World T20 encounter and in this match, a place in the semifinal was at stake. For the Indians, it was also a semifinal in front of the home crowd.

New Zealand topped Group 2 with four wins in four games over India, Australia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. As a result, the final group stage between India and Australia became a virtual knockout match as both teams had four points each from their wins over Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The Aussies won the toss and put up a respectable 160 runs on the board after Peter Nevill hit a four and a six off the last two balls of their innings.

In reply, the Indians lost both the openers before the end of the power play with only 37 runs scored. In the eighth over, it became 49-3 with Suresh Raina also dismissed. Yuvraj who joined Kohli at the centre was injured in only the third ball he faced and he struggled to run between the wickets which compounded India’s problems.

With no runner allowed, a bruised Yuvraj scored 21 runs in a 45 run partnership with Kohli before he was dismissed by a superb catch from Shane Watson in the final ball of the 14th over.

With six overs left, India needed 59 runs in 30 balls on a slow wicket with Kohli and Dhoni in the middle. The pair kept the scoreboard ticking and by the end of the 17th over, India required 39 runs off 18 balls.

The match turned on its head in the next over from James Faulkner when Kohli scored 14 runs off the first three balls. With two overs remaining, India needed 20 runs off 12 balls but Kohli wasn’t prepared to let the game go down to the wire as he hit four fours in the 19th over bowled by Nathan Coulter-Nile. With just four runs needed in the last over, Dhoni finished off the game with a boundary off the very first ball.

Kohli’s 82* of just 51 balls in this game is easily one of his best innings in a chase under pressure. In this game, he also reached 1500 T20I runs in the fewest number of innings (39).