CRICKET99 Cricket Live Score ,Matches & Tournaments The Big match comes to end and India beat Australia in the literally called Quarter final of T20 World cup 2016 today at PCA stadium Mohali. What a match that was and another great innings by great Virat kohli, scored 82 runs unbeaten on just 51 balls with 2 sixes and 9 fours and Now became the leading run scorer of the T20 world cup if we ignore all the qualifier matches of the tournament. This match was do or die for both the team and India grab the opportunity and make their way to the semi final of the tournament now India will take on West Indies on 31 March 2016.
Earlier Today Australia won the toss and captain Steven Smith opt to bat first. Both the openers Aaron Finch and Khawaja wonderful start to their team scored 50 plus runs in just 4 overs but Ashish Nehra strike one more time for his team in the form of Khawaja and from there no one batsman scored much run for the Aussies. David Warner scored only 6 runs and smith only 2 runs. Then Glenn Maxwell took forward the score of their team with Shane watson. In 20 overs Australia scored 160/6 , which is a great come back from Man in blues. Now India need 161 runs to win this match.
Again Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan got out early and at the end of the power play IND scored only 37 on the loss of 2 wickets. Both the openers are back in the pavilion, but Kohli stayed on the crease and played sensibly along with Yuvaj singh. Suresh Raina again thrown his wicket after just scoring 10 runs. Despite of injury in the leg Yuvraj stayed with Kohli on the crease and added some important runs for India. Yuvee added handy 21 runs in 18 balls and got out on a ball of Faulkner. Now Captain cools came onto the crease and converted singles into doubles and Kohli stunning 82 runs made on 51 balls made India won the match against Australia with 5 balls remaining, snatched ticket to the semi-final of T20 World cup 2016.
So the hero of this Ind vs Australia match is selected as Virat Kohli and now India will take on to the West Indies on 31 March at Wankhede, Mumbai.