Australia beat India by 35 runs in the fifth and final ODI at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi and clinched the series by 3-2. This is also their first ODI series win since January 2017. Earlier on a dry pitch Australia won the toss and opted to bat first and inform Usman Khawaja and captain Aaron Finch gave a good start of 76 runs.
Ravindra Jadeja removed Aaron Finch and got the much needed breakthrough for India. Later Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb added 99 runs for the second wicket and set the platform for a big score but Usman Khawaja got out after completing his hundred and Peter Handscomb after reaching his fifty. Glenn Maxwell also perished for 1 run, all of a sudden Australia were reduced to 182/4 and were in trouble but the cameos from Marcus Stoinis, Jhye Richardson and Pat Cummins helped Australia to post a good total of 272/9.
In the chase, Shikhar Dhawan started off positively and smashed two fours off Jhye Richardson's bowling but Pat Cummins sent him back to pavilion in his third over. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma took the charge to rebuild the innings and took the score to 68 and both were looking good but Marcus Stoinis broke this stand and dismissed captain Kohli for 20 runs. After that India lost the plot and kept losing wickets and were reduced to 132/6.
Kedar Jadhav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar's 91 runs partnership brought India back into the game but once again Pat Cummins got the breakthrough and set the match and series for Australia. On the last ball of the match, India got bowled out for 237 runs to lose the match and series.
Standout Performers -
Usman Khawaja - 100 runs off 106 balls (10 fours, 2 sixes)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 3/48 & 46 runs
Adam Zampa - 3/46
All the major stats and facts from the fifth ODI between India and Australia in Delhi :
1 - This 3-2 series win over India is Australia's first ODI series win since January 2017 and first ODI series win in India since 2009.
1 - This was also the first ODI series loss for India at home since losing 3-2 against South Africa in October 2015.
4 - Australia became the fourth team to win a 5-match ODI series after losing the first two matches of that series.
Teams to win an ODI series after losing the first two matches -
South Africa vs Pakistan, 2003 (3-2)
Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe, 2005 (3-2)
Pakistan vs India, 2005 (4-2)
South Africa vs England, 2016 (3-2)
Australia vs India, 2019 (3-2)
14 - Number of wickets Pat Cummins took in this ODI series - the joint most for Australia in a bilateral ODI series.
Most wickets for Australia in a bilateral ODI series -
14 - Pat Cummins vs IND in IND, 2019
14 - Mitchell Johnson vs IND in IND, 2007
14 - Clint McKay vs PAK in AUS, 2010
13 - Shane Warne vs WI in WI, 1998/99
13 - Mitchell Johnson vs SA in SA, 2009
200 - Number of innings taken by Rohit Sharma to complete 8000 ODI runs - the third fewest in the world.
Fewest innings to reach 8000 ODI runs -
175 - Virat Kohli
182 - AB de Villiers
200 - Rohit Sharma / Sourav Ganguly
203 - Ross Taylor
210 - Sachin Tendulkar
383 - Runs Usman Khawaja scored in this ODI series - the third most runs in a bilateral ODI series for Australia.
Most runs for Australia in an ODI series -
478 - George Bailey vs IND, 2013
386 - David Warner vs SA, 2016
383 - Usman Khawaja vs IND, 2019
367 - David Warner vs PAK, 2017
365 - Andrew Symonds vs IND, 2007
8010 - Rohit Sharma became the 9th Indian batsman to score 8000 runs in ODI cricket. He has scored 8010 runs at an average of 47.39 in 206 ODIs with 22 hundreds and 41 fifties.
Indian batsmen to score 8000 ODI runs -
18426 - Sachin Tendulkar
11363 - Sourav Ganguly
10889 - Rahul Dravid
10843 - Virat Kohli
10500 - MS Dhoni
9378 - Mohammad Azharuddin
8701 - Yuvraj Singh
8273 - Virender Sehwag
8010 - Rohit Sharma
