That brings us to the end of our coverage of the third and final one-dayer between India and Australia in Chennai, and with that, the curtains come down on India’s home season and it’s time for us to shift out attention to the Indian Premier League that kicks off in less than 10 days!
For now, this is Amit signing off, bidding you all good night!
Steve Smith: It’s been a pretty enjoyable tour, the way we pulled through after that third Test. We didn’t play the best cricket, but we pulled through across the line. I thought we left a few out there with the bat, a few rash shots. Spinners bowled beautifully, and it was a really good performance. I’m not sure what the turning point was, I think it was just a big grind out there in the middle. The way the tail stuck around and got us to 270 when we were looking at 220.
Mitchell Marsh is the Player of the Series for collecting 194 runs at an average of 97 and a strike-rate of 131.08.
Adam Zampa is the Player of the Match for his haul of 4/45, which included the wickets of Shubman Gill and Hardik Pandya.
Rohit Sharma: Partnerships are crucial, and it is something that we failed to do today. It is important to apply yourself and try and give yourself a chance. It was important for one batter to take the game deep. These things happen, we tried our best, but it just didn’t happen. Loss like this really hurts, but we understand what we need to do as a crew. It’s a collective failure from everyone which we need to look at.
Something for the Chepauk crowd to smile about
yellow team wins in chennai #INDvAUS
The Indians and Aussies certainly do relish challenging one another
Last 3 series defeats for India at homev AUS?? in 2019 (T20I)v AUS?? in 2019 (ODI)v AUS?? in 2023 (ODI)
Last 5 series defeats for Australia at homev ENG? in 2022 (T20I)v IND?? in 2020-21 (Test)v IND?? in 2020 (T20I)v IND?? in 2019 (ODI)v IND?? in 2018-19 (Test)
The streak… is over!
India’s streak of 26 consecutive unbeaten home series ends.
Both World Cup years
Australia are the only side to beat India in an ODI series in India in the past 5 years
March 2019 ?March 2023 ?#INDvAUS
Australia vs India LIVE Cricket Score
This is now the second time in a row that India have lost a bilateral ODI series against Australia in a World Cup year. And what’s common between their 3-2 loss in 2019 and the 2-1 defeat in this series is the fact that the Men in Blue were ahead on both occasions — leading the 2019 series 2-0 before losing three in a row. Tells you skipper Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid have a lot of work to do on this team as they aim to regain the coveted trophy on home soil later this year.
For now, the Aussies will relish regaining the top spot in the ODI rankings and flying back home with the ODI series trophy as a consolation after losing out on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier in the trip.