Another big win for India
Unbeatable India put down Australia by 73 runs in a Group 2 Match of the tournament at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium at capital's Mirpur today.
Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin got the Man of the Match award for hunting 4 wickets.
Earlier, after winning the toss, the Aussies decided to bowl first.
Starting slowly, India eventually got into a slogging mood as Yuvraj Singh finally managed to open up his bat's blades scoring 60 runs and dragged India to 159 runs for the loss of 7 wickets.
Australia used six bowlers who got one wicket each.
The Aussies also spent 17 extra runs.
In reply, the Aussie batting-order collapsed and packed up by 86 runs.
Today's match was just a warm up match for India as they already reached the semifinals by winning all three matches of the super 10.
Meanwhile, it was Australia's third loss in the second phase of the biggest stage of shortest-form of cricket.
Australia Team
DA Warner, AJ Finch, SR Watson, GJ Maxwell, GJ Bailey*, BJ Hodge, CL White, BJ Haddin†, MA Starc, JM Muirhead and DE Bollinger
India Team
RG Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, SK Raina, V Kohli, AM Rahane, MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, RA Jadeja, A Mishra, B Kumar and MM Sharma
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