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Match report
We’ll have a match report on the site shortly but that’s all for today’s stop-start blog. Thanks for your company – goodnight!
The player of the match is Mitch Marsh
The weather played its part – big thanks to all the crowd who stuck around. It’s nice to get a win: we were 0/3 here [in ODIs], so we’re away!
It was swinging around a little bit so it was a challenge to get through that. Proud of the way the young guys came out and took the game on.
[On Josh Philippe] Yeah, awesome. He came out and made it look very easy didn’t he? Any time you get young guys coming in, you want them to have fin and enjoy it. They all looked right at home.
[On his reaction to the pickle juice] I thought it was one of those sugar/carb things. They’ve done me like a dinner there! It was awful, but it fixed my cramp so [looks towards the camera with a smile] whatever company it was, it was great!
Shubman Gill’s verdict
It’s never easy when you lose three wickets in the Powerplay; you’re always playing a catch-up game. There are a lot of learnings for us from this game and we’re satisfied that we took it quite deep while defending only 130.
Josh Philippe’s reaction
Yeah, super exciting. It’s always a dream for Australia, and it’s pretty special to do it in Perth.
[Mitch Marsh] is in some serious form at the moment. Got a glimpse of it in New Zealand and again today; he’s hitting the ball beautifully.
It’s been a long wait [since 2021] and I wasn’t sure if I’d get another opportunity. I feel like I play my best when I have that aggressive intent. I was just watching the ball and trying to hit it as hard as I could. I feel like I’m hitting it nicely at the moment.
Australia win by 7 wickets with 29 balls remaining (DLS)
21.1 overs: Australia 131-3 (Marsh 46, Renshaw 21) Matt Renshaw hits the winning run on his ODI debut, tapping Reddy into the leg side for a single. Australia have won comfortably in a slightly muted, on-off match. The captain Mitch Marsh ensured there were no dramas in the runchase, making 46 not out to continue his fine recent form. Since the start of the series against South Africa in August, Marsh has made 548 runs at 78 in 10 white-ball innings for Australia.
21st over: Australia 130-3 (target 131; Marsh 46, Renshaw 20) Renshaw hooks Arshdeep round the corner for four, placed deliberately fine to beat the fielder on the boundary. A single off the last ball gives him the chance to hit the winning runs, and prompts some low-key gentle boos from the home fans.
20th over: Australia 121-3 (target 131; Marsh 45, Renshaw 13) Renshaw walks at the bowler Reddy, who fields the ball and throws it back at the stumps in one movement. It hits the scrambling Renshaw on the rump and deflects to safety. Renshaw is dropped next ball by the keeper KL Rahul, diving low to his left. It was a tough chance but Rahul’s footwork was excellent and he’ll be disappointed to have put it down.
Pickle juice aside, we haven’t mentioned Mitch Marsh in a while. He started with a few eyecatching sixes and has been happy to play a supporting role since then. Ten to win; Marsh needs half of them to reach another half-century.
19th over: Australia 117-3 (target 131; Marsh 42, Renshaw 12) Arshdeep caused Renshaw a few problems in the previous over. Renshaw responds by jumping across to ramp a lovely six over the keeper’s head.
Height negates an otherwise excellent LBW appeal from Arshdeep against Renshaw. Just 14 to win now.
18th over: Australia 110-3 (target 131; Marsh 42, Renshaw 6) “What is that?” gurns Mitch Marsh after swigging some pickle juice between overs. Marnus Labuschagne, who provided the crampbusting goodness, bursts out laughing in response.
When play resumes, Renshaw drives Washington handsomely over long-off for… one run, with Siraj doing brilliantly to save the six while leaping backwards over the rope.
17th over: Australia 102-3 (target 131; Marsh 38, Renshaw 2) Mitch Marsh signals to the dressing-room that he needs – not wants, let’s be clear on that – some pickle juice. “It’s either cramp,” he tells one of the umpires, “or I’ve done both my calves!”
Arshdeep returns and has an LBW appeal turned down when Renshaw plays down the wrong line. Nicely bowled but it hit him outside off and wouldn’t have hit the stumps anyway. Apart from that, Renshaw was plumb.
Australia need 29 from 54 balls.
16th over: Australia 100-3 (target 131; Marsh 37, Renshaw 1) Nine years on from his Test debut, Matt Renshaw walks out to play his first white-ball innings for Australia. He works Washington for a single to get off the mark, and bring up the Australian hundred.
WICKET! India 99-3 (Philippe c Arshdeep b Washington 37)
Washington Sundar’s first ball flies down the leg side for five wides. But he strikes with his second legitimate delivery when Philippe clunks a pull and is nicely caught by the diving Arshdeep Singh at deep backward square.
That was a nice innings from Philippe, probably the most fluent of the game. He made 37 from 29 balls with three fours and two sixes.
15th over: Australia 94-2 (target 131; Marsh 37, Philippe 37) The new bowler Nitish Kumar Reddy is cuffed handsomely over midwicket for six by Philippe, who has caught up with Mitchell Marsh despite arriving when Marsh was on 26.
A single off the last ball of the over brings up the fifty partnership in 43 balls.
14th over: Australia 83-2 (target 131; Marsh 34, Philippe 29) Philippe, who is batting with increasing authority, dumps a slog-sweep for four off Patel. He kept beautifully in the Indian innings too, so it’ll be interesting to see how Australia juggle the team when Alex Carey returns.
This game is all over bar the shouting: Australia need 48 from 72 balls.
13th over: Australia 75-2 (target 131; Marsh 33, Philippe 22) Philippe rides a sharp lifter from Rana, steering the ball wide of slip for four. There was a bit of edge involved but he played it well because it was a cracking delivery.
The next ball is wider and slashed for four more. Australia are cruising.
Drinks: Australia need 64 from 84 balls
12th over: Australia 67-2 (target 131; Marsh 33, Philippe 14) After a quiet over from Axar, it’s time for drinks.
11th over: Australia 62-2 (target 131; Marsh 32, Philippe 12) Harshit Rana bowls a heavy ball and is deceptively quick, as Philippe finds out when he top-edges a pull over the keeper’s head for a flat six. He’s still only 23 and could be a serious bowler when he works it all out.
Right now Australia, despite a few false strokes and some awkward batting conditions, are well on course for victory.
10th over: Australia 55-2 (target 131; Marsh 32, Philippe 4) A stroke of luck for Marsh, who tries to cut Axar and edges wide of the keeper for four.
Australia need 76 from 96 balls.
9th over: Australia 48-2 (target 131; Marsh 27, Philippe 3) Harshit Rana has changed ends to replace Siraj (4-1-21-0). He’s very keen on an LBW review when Philippe plays around a back-of-a-length delivery; Shubman Gill is less enthused and replays show it would have bounced over the top.
Nicely bowled though, and he follows it with a sharp inducker that beats Philippe on the inside.
8th over: Australia 45-2 (target 131; Marsh 26, Philippe 1) Josh Philippe works his first ball for a single.
WICKET! Australia 44-2 (Short c Rohit b Axar 8)
The left-arm spinner Axar Patel strikes in his first over. Matthew Short was itching to play an attacking stroke after four dot balls to start the over, but he was done in the flight and sliced it straight to Rohit Sharma at short third. He goes for 8 from 17 balls, an innings the streets have already forgotten.
7th over: Australia 44-1 (target 131; Marsh 26, Short 8) Wickets plural are India’s only hope of victory, so Siraj continues. There’s no breakthrough but he does clonk Marsh on the side of the grille with a beautiful short ball. It’s not often that Marsh misses a pull stroke.
Marsh takes off his helmet and smiles as Siraj walks over to check he’s okay. He seems fine but will undertake a concussion test.
6th over: Australia 38-1 (target 131; Marsh 22, Short 7) The hulking Harshit Rana replaces Arshdeep Singh (2-0-14-1). Marsh goes straight after him, larruping another majestic six over extra cover as if it’s the most obvious thing in the world. To him, it probably is.
Marsh has 22 from 20 balls: three sixes and four singles from the other 19.
5th over: Australia 29-1 (target 131; Marsh 15, Short 5) Marsh makes room to clatter Siraj over extra cover for six, the kind of shot only a handful of batters in world cricket could play. Those are the only runs from the over, which means Siraj has bowled 11 dot balls in 12 to Marsh – and been hit for a massive six.
4th over: Australia 23-1 (target 131; Marsh 9, Short 5) Turns out Marsh was only waiting for a slightly bad ball. He seizes upon a delivery from Arshdeep that is fractionally short, pulling it for six with the usual devastating certainty. The more I think about it, the more his selection as an opener for the Perth Test makes sense. Put simply, I think England would fear him more than the alternatives, particularly at the Optus Stadium.
Short cuffs his first boundary through the covers, then chases a length inswinger and is beaten.
3rd over: Australia 12-1 (target 131; Marsh 2, Short 0) The new ball is swinging and for now Mitch Marsh looks content to wait for the bad ball. He’s still waiting: Siraj’s second over is an accurate, challenging maiden to Marsh.
2nd over: Australia 11-1 (target 131; Marsh 2, Short 0) The new batter Matthew Short is beaten by an absolute jaffa from the left-armer Arshdeep: just back of a length, pitching on leg stump and seaming away.
Short then chases a wider delivery and is beaten again. Fine start from Arshdeep: two runs, one big wicket.
WICKET! Australia 9-1 (Head c Rana b Arshdeep 8)
It’s the way he plays. After hitting two boundaries in the first over, Head slices a wider outswinger from Arshdeep straight to deep backward point, where Harshit Rana takes a comfortable catch.
1st over: Australia 9-0 (target 131; Marsh 1, Head 8) Australia’s target is sufficiently modest that their openers can take a bit of time to get their eye in if they want.
Yeah, right. Head flicks Siraj wide of midwicket for four, then drives handsomely over mid-off for another boundary.
After a short break between innings – we’ve already lost enough time – the players are back out in the middle. Mohammed Siraj has the ball.
26th over: India 136-9 (Reddy 19, Siraj 0) Reddy launches Kuhnemann over midwicket for a big six, then turns down a single so that he can face the last two deliveries of the innings.
Siraj doesn’t get the memo and pushes for a single off the next ball. He’s sent back but makes his ground before the throw hits the stumps.
Reddy’s policy is justified by the last ball – another mighty six, this time over long-off. A good finish for India but they surely don’t have enough – especially as they’ve just lost six runs to the wonders of DLS. Australia’s adjusted target is 131 from 26 overs.
WICKET! India 124-9 (Arshdeep run out 0)
Arshdeep Singh is run out without facing. He took one for the team, turning for a non-existent second so that Nitish Kumar Reddy could keep strike.
25th over: India 123-8 (Reddy 6, Arshdeep 0) Owen ends his debut spell with figures of 3-0-20-2.
WICKET! India 123-8 (Rana c Philippe b Owen 1)
Reddy is dropped at long on by the sliding Renshaw, then Harshit Rana slogs a short ball miles in the air and is comfortably caught by Josh Philippe. Two wickets for Mitch Owen on his debut.
WICKET! India 121-7 (Rahul c Renshaw b Owen 38)
Mitch Owen beams with delight after taking his first ODI wicket. KL Rahul holed out to the other debutant, Matt Renshaw, at long-on to end a useful innings of 38.
Nine balls left in the innings.
24th over: India 118-6 (Rahul 38, Reddy 2) This is some spell from Kuhnemann: 3-0-13-2 with no boundaries conceded.
