Overview
- Australia chased 265 in 46.2 overs to win by two wickets at Adelaide, sealing the three-match series with a game to spare.
- Matthew Short made 74 after two reprieves and Cooper Connolly finished unbeaten on 61, with Mitch Owen adding 36.
- Adam Zampa’s 4-60 and Xavier Bartlett’s early strikes, including Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli, restricted India to 264 for nine as Josh Hazlewood bowled a miserly 10 overs for 29.
- Rohit Sharma top-scored with 73 and Shreyas Iyer hit 61, while Kohli recorded a second successive ODI duck on his return.
- Gill said dropped catches and a just-about-par total proved decisive, fueling debate over Kuldeep Yadav’s omission as the teams head to a dead rubber in Sydney on October 25.