48.1: Glenn Maxwell to KL Rahul, SIX! INDIA ARE THROUGH TO THE FINAL OF THE ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY 2025! KL Rahul hits the glory shot and the celebrations start in the Indian dressing room. Glenn Maxwell darts it in, fuller and on the middle and leg stump line. KL Rahul shimmies down a bit and lofts it over cow corner for a cracking six. Hits it clean as a whistle and clears the ropes with ease to get his team over the line.
End of over 48
IND261/6
IND Batting R Jadeja 2(1) Rahul 36(33)
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47.6: Nathan Ellis to Ravindra Jadeja, Around the wicket, speared in fuller and on middle, Ravindra Jadeja pushes it to mid on and scoots off for a quick single. Oh, wait! An overthrow as Ben Dwarshuis picks up the initial throw on the back-up and throws it wayward to the keeper's end. With no proper back up there, the batters take another run.
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47.5: Nathan Ellis to Hardik Pandya, OUT! GONE! IN THE AIR AND TAKEN! Ellis bowls it fuller again, and gets the ball to jag back in a touch, around middle and leg. Hardik Pandya tries to kill the game with the glory shot, but ends up mistiming it badly. Hits straight in the air, but the connection is off the toe-end, hence, he doesn't quite get the distance. Ends up offering a dolly of a catch to Glenn Maxwell who moves a bit to his left from long on. Takes a simple reverse cup catch. India need 6 off 13 balls now.
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47.4: Nathan Ellis to Hardik Pandya, Pace on, too full and outside off, almost a yorker. Hardik Pandya fails to carve it out.
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47.3: Nathan Ellis to Hardik Pandya, FOUR! Effortless! Into the single figures now, then! Ellis serves it on the stumps, on a fullish length, nipping back a bit off the deck. Hardik Pandya positions himself well and holds his shape to loft it over the bowler's head for a boundary. Just a hit away now, is India!
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47.3: Nathan Ellis to Hardik Pandya, WIDE! A close call? Ellis is not quite convinced, but it is clearly over the head! Shortish on the top of off, climbs on the batter. Hardik Pandya opts to let it be as it passes above his head height.
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47.2: Nathan Ellis to Hardik Pandya, Swing and a miss! Ellis takes pace off, and bowls a fuller-length delivery, around the leg stump line, Hardik Pandya tries to loft it over the bowler but misses due to the lack of pace, and gets beaten on the inside edge as the ball nips back in a touch.
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47.1: Nathan Ellis to KL Rahul, Back of a length, on top of off, KL Rahul leans back and cuts it to the left of point for a single.
End of over 47
IND253/5
IND Batting H Pandya 24(20) Rahul 35(32)
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46.6: Adam Zampa to Hardik Pandya, SIX MORE! CLEARS THE FENCE WITH EASE AGAIN! Too full from Zampa again, on the stumps, Hardik Pandya picks it up nicely and deposits it into the stands behind long off. It traveled more than 100 meters. Just 12 needed to win now off 18 balls remaining.
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46.5: Adam Zampa to Hardik Pandya, SIX! BANG! This time he connects, and connects so well! Zampa offers it right into the wheel house, floated fuller and on off, Hardik Pandya clears his front leg and smashes it over long off for a huge six. He struggles a bit right after playing the shot, but looks fine to continue.
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46.4: Adam Zampa to Hardik Pandya, Another dot delivery! Slower through the air, drifting on the pads, Hardik Pandya sits down to smash the slog sweep, but connects thin air.
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46.3: Adam Zampa to KL Rahul, Back of a length, on off, KL Rahul backs away and cuts it to deep point for a single.
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46.2: Adam Zampa to Hardik Pandya, On the shorter side, outside off, stays low as well. Hardik Pandya stands tall and lofts it over cover for a single. He looks for the second run but is sent back on a sharp call from KL Rahul. Has enough time to turn around and retreat back to the bowling end, before the throw.
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46.1: Adam Zampa to KL Rahul, Pitched on a length, flatter and quicker on off, KL Rahul smashes it down to long off for a single.
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49.3: Hardik Pandya to Adam Zampa, OUT! BOWLED! The off cutter from Hardik, in line of the stumps, angling in from outside off, Zampa swings for the mid-wicket region but misses and the ball hits the top of middle stump. AUSTRALIA HAVE BEEN BOWLED OUT FOR 264 WITH 3 BALLS TO SPARE.
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49.2: Hardik Pandya to Tanveer Sangha, On a good length, outside off, 127.9 kph, Tanveer Sangha stays leg side of the ball and steers it with an open bat-face towards deep third for a run.
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49.1: Hardik Pandya to Adam Zampa, A slower ball, 114.4 kph, on a length, outside off, Adam Zampa heaves it through square leg for a single.
End of over 49
AUS262/9
AUS Batting N Ellis 10(7) A Zampa 6(10)
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48.6: Mohammad Shami to Nathan Ellis, OUT! CAUGHT! Straight to the man and Nathan Ellis will be thinking, a bit more elevation and it would have been another six. Mohammad Shami goes full and straight but serves it more in the slot than the blockhole. Ellis stays deep and clears the front leg to swing through the line but gets it off the toe end of the bat. The ball flies down to long on where Virat Kohli takes a couple of steps back and takes the catch just over his head. Australia 262/9 with one over to go.
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48.5: Mohammad Shami to Nathan Ellis, SIX! Out of nowhere! Shami takes pace off and bowls into the pitch but doesn't get it quite wide enough outside off. Nathan Ellis is waiting for the slower one and backs away before fetching it and clobbering the ball over cow corner for a biggie. Australia get over 260 now.
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48.4: Mohammad Shami to Adam Zampa, Goes for the straight yorker now and gets it well enough but Adam Zampa does well to just flick it away through square leg for yet another single.
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48.3: Mohammad Shami to Nathan Ellis, Quicker ball, 136.9 kph, following the batter down the leg side, Ellis stands around leg stump and chips it towards Kohli at long on. The ball does not carry once again and it is another run taken.
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48.2: Mohammad Shami to Adam Zampa, Slower ball, outside off, on a fuller length, Adam Zampa chips it over mid-wicket. Virat Kohli charges onto the ball from long on to his right but cannot get to it in time. It lands in front of him and he fumbles, but the batters do not attempt the second.
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48.1: Mohammad Shami to Nathan Ellis, On a good length, outside off, Nathan Ellis exposes all his stumps and stands well outside leg stump. Pushes the ball to point for a single.
End of over 48
AUS252/8
AUS Batting N Ellis 2(3) A Zampa 4(8)
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47.6: Hardik Pandya to Nathan Ellis, Slow and short, banged in halfway down the track over off, Ellis gets on op of the bounce and manages to pull it down through mid-wicket for a single.
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47.5: Hardik Pandya to Nathan Ellis, Oh, that nearly got through! Full and wide, a bit too full, Nathan Ellis looks to drive but squeezes it off the toe end of the bat and fine too. But the fielder at short third makes a good stop down to his left.
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47.4: Hardik Pandya to Adam Zampa, Another slower one, on a good length and around the top of off, Zampa waits well and works it away through mid-wicket for a single.
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47.3: Hardik Pandya to Adam Zampa, Around off, pushed towards point.
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47.2: Hardik Pandya to Nathan Ellis, Outside off, on a good length, pushed to the off side for a single to get off the mark. 250 UP FOR AUSTRALIA.
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47.1: Hardik Pandya to Alex Carey, OUT! CAREY IS RUN OUT! Superb piece of fielding by Shreyas Iyer and that throws 270 out of the window now. A length ball, around middle and leg, Alex Carey nudged it behind square leg and took the single. Decided to take Shreyas on, assuming that he would make it for the second by the time the keeper, KL Rahul collected the throw. But Iyer goes a step further. Takes Rahul out of the equation. Charges onto the ball from deep square leg, gets to the ball, picks it up and fires a direct hit at the striker's end! Carey is well short but he departs for a fantastic 61 (57) and Australia are now 249/8, with only 17 balls left!
48.1: Glenn Maxwell to KL Rahul, SIX! INDIA ARE THROUGH TO THE FINAL OF THE ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY 2025! KL Rahul hits the glory shot and the celebrations start in the Indian dressing room. Glenn Maxwell darts it in, fuller and on the middle and leg stump line. KL Rahul shimmies down a bit and lofts it over cow corner for a cracking six. Hits it clean as a whistle and clears the ropes with ease to get his team over the line.