Ind vs Aus live cricket score 1st T20 Ranchi: India rip into Australia batting order as rain stops play in Ranchi

India vs Australia, Live Cricket Score and Updates, 1st T20 in Ranchi: Australia will play the three-match T20I without Steve Smith.

India vs Australia Live Cricket Score 1st T20I: Australia innings ends at 118/8 after 18.4 overs. The rains seemed to have subsided in between but have picked up pace once again which means we will have to wait some more for a restart. The umpires have hence called for a halt to the Australian innings and the India will be chasing an adjusted target. ESPNCricinfo reports that the cutoff time for the match to restart is 10.20 PM. It started raining and the covers had to come on. Australia have been absolutely woefull in their innings. They were losing regular wickets throughout their innings and have simply folded in the death overs. Tim Paine provided some rare resistance but even he fell to Bumrah. This match is already turning out to be a glorious mismatch. Australia looked steady only during the period when Maxwell and Finch played and since then, it has been pretty much a free fall. Before all the action began, India had won the toss and elected to bowl first. Captain Virat Kohli felt India haven’t played much on this pitch and so wanted to see how it behaves. Catch all live score and live updates of the first T20I match between India and Australia here. (FULL LIVE SCORECARD)

India vs Australia Live Cricket Score 1st T20I: IND vs AUS Live 

Playing XI:

India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (C), Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni (WK), Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah.

Australia: David Warner (C), Aaron Finch, Glenn Maxwell, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Dan Christian, \Tim Paine (WK), Nathan Coulter-Nile, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa, Jason Behrendorff