India vs Australia: Hardik Pandya & Jadeja take India to 302/5 after Kohli's fighting 50

Hardik Pandya played a tremark swashbuckling inning under pressure in company of Ravindra Jeja as a late flourish propelled India to 302 for 5 in third and final ODI against Australia here on Wednesday.

Pandya hit an unbeaten 92 off 76 balls and with Jeja (66 t out off 50 balls), helped India make a stunning recovery after team struggled for runs for most part of innings. Skipper Virat Kohli's fighting half century was ar kck of significance in visiting team's effort.

Coming toger in 32nd over, Pandya and Jeja stitched 150 runs for unbroken sixth wicket to change complexion of game, which would make difference to final score-line as Australia have alrey sealed it with back-to-back wins in Sydney.

It looked like India would barely reach 250 but Pandya and Jeja me it a different story. duo took some time to settle down before opening floodgates of boundaries. y scored 53 runs from 46th to 48th over. In all, 76 runs came from last five overs.

Pandya's innings h seven fours and one six while Jeja was at his best, hitting five boundaries and three sixes.

Except for Kohli, Pandya and Jeja, or batsmen struggled on a flat track after India opted to bat.

Senior campaigners like Shikhar Dhawan (16) and KL Rahul (5) perished due to poor shot selection while Shreyas Iyer could contribute only 19 runs at Manuka Oval, which is kwn for producing big scores.

Kohli, who became fastest cricketer to score 12000 ODI runs, showed gumption to take fight to opposition camp with a 78-ball 63 which included five hits to fence.

For Australia, Ashton Agar was most successful bowler with figures of 2/44.

India me a relatively quiet start as compared to earlier two matches with just a boundary coming in first three overs and opening duo playing out 12 dot balls during this initial period.

Soon, visitors suffered a jolt in fifth over with a soft dismissal of Dhawan who came out of his crease only to hit straight to Ashton Agar.

Kohli and Shubman n put toger 56 runs from just under 10 overs before youngster got out LBW in 16th over while trying to sweep Agar. His 33 came off 39 balls and h three fours and a six.

After Iyer sliced a delivery to Marnus Labuschagne, KL Rahul me a poor shot selection as he tried a sweep shot off Agar only to perish.

Kohli, who was in great touch, pulling, cutting and driving comfortably, was out in 32nd over after a half-hearted review for a caught-behind by Australians.

Ultra-Edge showed a tiny spike and umpire h to reverse his decision much to dismay of Indians.

It was n left to Pandya and Jeja to take India past 300-run mark.

Im credits: @ICC/ Twitter