India vs Australia 2nd T20 LIVE updates: Pandya finishes off in style, India clinch series

Hardik Pandya hits a humongous six to clinch the nail-biter. India beat Australia by 6 wickets clinch the T20 series 2-0

India are 150/4 after 15.2 overs

India are 120/3 after 13.4 overs

India are 103/2 after 12 overs

India are 94/1 after 11 overs

India are 86/1 at the halfway mark

India are 73/1 after 8 overs

India are 56/1 after 5.2 overs

India are 50/0 after 4.5 overs

India are 43/0 after 4 overs

India are 24/0 after 3 overs

India are 5/0 after 1over

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India need 195 runs to win the T20I series

Australia are 171/5 after 18.3 overs

Australia are 169/4 after 18 overs

Australia are 152/3 after 16 overs

Australia's attempt to go-hard is stalled by Indian bowlers. Australia are 132/3 in 15 overs

Virat Kohli drops catch, only to take advantage of the mix-up between the Aussies to run Wade out. 

Wade run out (Kohli/Rahul) 58(32)           

Shardul Thakur gets the big wicket of Glenn MAxwell. 'Big Show' attempts to go big, misses this mark and is caught. Australia are 120/3.

Maxwell strikes a maximum off Chahal, Smith attempts to clobber as Aussies eye a big score i nthe last eight overs. 

100 runs come up for Australia in 11 overs

Maxwell warms-up with a six off Chahal as Australia cross 90 runs in the halfway mark of the innings. 

An economic over from Natarajan silences Smith and Maxwell. Australia are 81/2 in 9 overs

India lose review for an LBW appeal after Deepak Chahar's delivery misses the stump. A close one for Smith.  

Australia are 68/1 at 7 overs

Wade powers his way to 50 off just 25 deliveries

Matthew Wade continues onslaught, plays a boundary-studded over off Shardul Thakur. Australia are 59/1 at 6 overs

'Yorker King' T Natarajan begins his spell with intent and accuracy

Natarajan strikes in his first over, takes out D'Arcy Short as Shreyas Iyer completes an excellent one-hand catch. Australia are 47/1. 

Wade takes Sundar to the cleaners, scores three boundsaries as Australia near 50-run mark. 

India finish off the second over with a dot ball

Washington Sundar's hopes to repeat his stellar performace fro mthe 1st T20 took a early hit from Wade. Australia are 23/0 at 2 overs. 

D'Arcy Short & Wade get the scoreboard ticking instantly as they take Deepak Chahar for a 13-run 1st over. Australia are 13/0 in 1 over

Matthew Wade and D'Arcy Short open the innings for Australia at the 2nd T20 at Sydney. Deepak chahar to start the proceedings for the Men in Blue

As the India vs Australia series action returns to Sydney, we can expect the pitch at the Sydney Cricket Ground to behave similarly to the ODIs. The average score for T20I games at the venue has around the 140 mark over the last couple of years, with 75% of teams winning while chasing. However, this has not been the case at both ODI games played at the venue in this series, making the winning captain's decision on Sunday a tough one. The surface at the SGC proved to be a great batting surface over the course of the two ODIs. Both pacers and spinners will get a considerable amount from the pitch. Accuweather predicts a bright and sunny day in Sydney tomorrow, with no rain expected. 

The chatter around the concussion substitute will remain as a resurgent India, unlikely to be alarmed by all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja's absence, seek a series win in the second T20 International against Australia on Sunday. A series win will be an ideal confidence booster for India before the visitors hit Test match mode. Some of the Indian team players are treating the white-ball leg as a six-match composite series instead of two separate formats.

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Having won two white-ball games in Canberra, the Indians under Virat Kohli will hope that the next two matches at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) pan out better for them. Following their victory on the back of India's first concussion substitute Yuzvendra Chahal's terrific bowling display, India will enter the second game with a lot more confidence even though Jadeja's batting lower down the order will be missed. It can't be denied that his unbeaten 44 off 23 balls made the difference between a winning score and a sub-par one.

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However for Kohli, he would expect that he wouldn't need contributions from lower-middle order and the top five batsmen would be good enough to put up a good total on board or may be chase down a tricky target. It will only help India that rival captain Aaron Finch, who has been in fantastic form, may not be fully fit. And with David Warner already absent due to a groin tear, the momentum that Australia had during the ODI series may not be there. D'Arcy Short looked out of place during the first T20 International and Chahal rightly exposed his chinks, bowling wide of off-stump because he had a limited range of strokes on the off-side.  Steve Smith, for all his greatness, isn't exactly the best T20 player around and is more at ease playing the second fiddle to an enforcer. Glenn Maxwell has limitations which both Jasprit Bumrah and Thangarasu Natarajan had exposed in the last ODI and first T20 respectively.

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What India would aspire is a better effort from the top-order, especially senior opener Shikhar Dhawan, who has gone off the boil after the half century in the first ODI. Skipper Kohli has been decent without being extraordinary and that has affected the team. A solid knock from Kohli can go a long way in solving half of India's worries. It will be interesting to see if Manish Pandey gets a second game. Ideally, he should get one more game but his discomfort against Adam Zampa was quite visible and the Indian innings lost the moment when he started wasting deliveries. Between Pandey and Shreyas Iyer, there isn't much of a difference as they are same type of players, who need some time before they counter-attack. For Sanju Samson and the in-form Hardik Pandya, the job will be to utilise the last six overs even though Samson's temperament in the few international matches that he has played hasn't been impressive.

For Australia, one interesting aspect is veteran Test specialist Nathan Lyon being drafted into the T20 squad and it remains to be seen if he replaces Mitchell Swepson in the playing XI. Although he got lucky with Kohli's wicket, Swepson mostly bowled short in his two overs and on a flat Sydney deck, he could increase Australia's worries. Lyon, on the other hand, could be used in Powerplay just like India successfully used young off-spinner Washington Sundar in the first six overs.

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(With PTI inputs)