Riding on Hardik Pandya's brilliant all-round performance at M Chidambaram Stadium, Team India outclassed the 'underdogs'-tagged Australian side with a 26-run victory by Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-intervened encounter in Chennai for the first of the five ODI matches on Sunday Sep 17,2017
Scorecard
India 281/7 in 50 Overs
Australia 137/9 in 21 Overs(Target 164 Runs)
Match Result - India won by 26 Runs under D/L
MOM -Hardik Pandya(India) for his 83(66 Balls 4x5 and 6x5) and 2/28(4 Overs)
Series Result - India lead the 5-Match ODI Series 1-0
With the spectacular win, Virat Kohli became the first captain ever to record a winning percentage of 80 in ODI cricket.
Leading his side to 36 matches, the Men in Blue bagged 28 victories and lost just seven matches
This was also Kohli's 50th international win as a captain and ergo equalled Rahul Dravid's tally.
The former had 50 international wins from 104 matches as a captain.
Virat Kohli thus became the fifth Indian skipper to breach the mark, after Dhoni (178 of 331), Mohammad Azharuddin (104 of 221) and Sourav Ganguly (97 of 195)
Virat Kohli now stands behind Aussie great Ricky Ponting in the list of fastest to 50 international wins as captain. The legend stands atop with victories coming from just 63 matches, while for Kohli ist is 70 matches. He is followed by former South African skipper Hansie Cronje who had reached the mark in 72 matches
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