By successfully chasing down a massive mark of 209 with four balls remaining, Australia took a 1-0 lead in their three-match T20I series in India. India's 208/6 against Australia was their highest-ever score in this format, but the visitors quickly whittled down the total; the only bowler on the other side to actually trouble the world champions' batting was the home team's spinner Axar Patel.

Ajay Jadeja, a former Indian batsman, claimed that it was challenging to pinpoint a particular moment in Australia's innings when the hosts lost the game. “I am trying to think of a situation where India had a chance, except for when Axar Patel was bowling. And he also didn't bowl at a stretch. Except for those overs, there was no problem that Australia had. They didn't even have to take any chances,” he said.

Australia dominated the opening 10 overs and was in control for most of the chase because of Cameron Green's 30-ball 61. After getting a couple of quick wickets, Umesh Yadav and Axar temporarily stopped the flow of runs, however, Matthew Wade later entered the game and ended India's chances.

“India carried on with the plans that they had when they took those wickets and it just didn't work. It's really difficult to figure out where did we go wrong because throughout that innings, we went wrong. There is no one stage I can pick and say something could have been done differently,” said Jadeja.

“At the start maybe I would have pointed out bowling Axar Patel (as the problem) because the ball was seaming but he ended up with the best figures. He looked like he was playing a different game to the others. Chahal has had a few games where things haven't gone his way. I feel for Rohit Sharma, everything he did was right but Australia had an answer for everything.”

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