India beat Australia by 8 runs in a last over thriller at VCA Stadium in Nagpur and took an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the five ODIs series with three matches to go. Earlier, on a tricky track Australia opted to field first after winning the toss and Pat Cummins gave them a perfect start by removing Rohit Sharma for a six balls duck in the first over. Shikhar Dhawan played a few shots and looked good but Glenn Maxwell removed him too.
Ambati Rayudu also perished off Nathan Lyon's bowling and India were reduced to 75/3 in 17 overs. But captain Virat Kohli was rock solid at the other end and first he added 81 runs with Vijay Shankar and 67 runs with Ravindra Jadeja and pulled things back and also brought up his 40th ODI hundred. After Kohli's dismissal, India could add only 2 runs to their total and got bowled out for 250 runs in the 49th over. Pat Cummins took 4 wickets for Australia.
In the chase, Usman Khawaja and Aaron Finch gave a fantastic start of 83 runs and put India on backfoot but Kuldeep Yadav and Kedar Jadhav sent back both the openers at that score in the span of seven balls and brought India back into the game. Peter Handscomb and Shaun Marsh's 39 runs stand was looking threatning but Ravindra Jadeja removed Shaun Marsh and Kuldeep Yadav sent Maxwell back to pavilion and reduced Australia to 132/4 in the 29th over.
Peter Handscomb and Marcus Stoinis rebuilt the innings and took the score to 171/4 but Ravindra Jadeja's brilliant fielding ended Handscomb innings for 48 runs. After that Stoinis and Alex Carey played their shots and almost took the match away from India as they needed only 32 runs in the last 6 overs with 5 wickets in hand, but first Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Alex Carey and in the following over Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Nathan Coulter-Nile and Pat Cummins.
In the last over, Australia needed 11 runs but Vijay Shankar sent Stoinis back to pavilion on his first ball of the over and later also dismissed Adam Zampa and thus Australia was bowled out for 242 runs and lost the match by 8 runs.
Standout Performers -
Virat Kohli - 116 runs off 120 balls (10 fours)
Pat Cummins - 4/29 in 9 overs
Jasprit Bumrah - 2/29 in 10 overs
All the major stats and facts from the second ODI between India and Australia in Nagpur :
4 - India have won all the 4 ODIs they played against Australia at VCA Stadium in Nagpur.
13 - Rohit Sharma bagged his 13th duck in ODIs but it was his first duck in home ODIs.
32 - Number of Man of the Match awards for Virat Kohli in ODI cricket - the second most for an Indian player after Sachin Tendulkar (62).
Most Man of the Match awards in ODIs for India -
62 - Sachin Tendulkar
32 - Virat Kohli
31 - Sourav Ganguly
27 - Yuvraj Singh
23 - Virender Sehwag
33 - Virat Kohli has now scored 33 hundreds in a winning cause in ODI cricket - the joint most alongside Sachin Tendulkar.
Most hundreds in ODI wins -
33 - Virat Kohli (133 innings)
33 - Sachin Tendulkar (231 innings)
25 - Ricky Ponting (254 innings)
24 - Hashim Amla (105 innings)
24 - Sanath Jayasuriya (228 innings)
40 - Virat Kohli became the only second player after Sachin Tendulkar (49) to score 40 hundreds in ODI cricket.
250 - The total of 250 runs all out is the second lowest all out total for India in ODIs when Virat Kohli scored a hundred.
Lowest all out totals for India in ODIs when Virat Kohli scored a hundred -
240 vs WI at Pune, 2018
250 vs AUS at Nagpur, 2019
268 vs NZ at Napier, 2014
500 - This was India's 500th win in ODI cricket - they are only the second team to win 500 ODIs after Australia (558).
9094 - Virat Kohli (9094 runs) became the sixth player to score 9000 runs in international cricket as captain.
Most International runs as captain -
15440 - Ricky Ponting
14878 - Graeme Smith
11561 - Stephen Fleming
11207 - MS Dhoni
11062 - Allan Border
9094 - Virat Kohli
