With India’s batsmen off to a flyer, their talisman followed up his lucky break by slotting Pat Cummins for successive fours in the same over and then in the fast bowler’s next, flicked a ball off his hip over square-leg for six effortlessly.
The skipper and his predecessor were well supported on a sweltering late spring afternoon by David Warner and a switch-hitting Glenn Maxwell , whose natural gifts never cease to amaze. While Smith's outing was appropriately swashbuckling on a day when Australia paid tribute to the late and great Dean Jones with a minute’s silence before play, there was much expectation about Kohli’s first appearance with the bat, the maestro himself having only left the confines of lockdown at Homebush with the rest of the Indian squad the night before.
Australia had allowed India to jump out of the blocks in pursuit of a record ODI run chase in Australia, with an 11-ball over for 20 from Mitchell Starc to begin the innings not the ideal start.
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