India vs Australia 3rd t20 and australians won their first match in this series after two losses chase down the target of 223 at last ball.
Maxwell and matthew wade finished match with raning boundries when equation were came down to the 43 off 12 balls.
India vs Australia match players perfomance
| Travis Head | 35 on 18 balls | Y.Jaiswal | 6 runs on 6 balls |
| K.Richardson | 3 over gave 34 runs 1 wicket | R.Gaikwad | 123 runs on 57 balls |
| A.Hardie | 16 on 12 balls and 4 over gave 64 run | I.Kishan | o runs on 5 balls |
| J,Inglis | 10 on 6 balls | S.Yadav | 39 runs on 29 balls |
| G.Maxwell | 104 on 48 balls 1 over gave 30 runs | T.Verma | 31 runs on 24 balls |
| M.Stoinis | 17 on 21 balls | R.Sing | yet to bat |
| Tim David | 0 on 1 balls | A. Patel | 4 over 37 runs 1 wicket |
| M.Wade(c) | 28 on 16 balls | A.Sing | 4 over 44 runs 1 wicket |
| J.Behrendorff | 4 over gave 12 runs 1 wicket | R.Bishnoi | 4 over 32 runs 2 wickets |
| N. Ellis | 4 over gave 36 runs 0 wicket | P.Krishna | 4 over 68 runs 0 wicket |
| T.Sangha | 4 over gave 42 runs 0 wicket | A.Khan | 4 over gave 37 runs 1 wicket |
Match summary
Australia 225 for 5 (Maxwell 104 not out, head 35 and wade 28 not out , ravi bishnoi 2-32) beat india 222 for 3 (gaikwad 123 not out, suryakumar yadav 39 and tilak verma 31 not out) by five wickets.
Ruturaj gaikwad scored an unbeaten 123 and helped his team to post huge total of 222 in Guwahati .
But glenn maxwell unbeaten 104 stunned the hosts as Australia pulled off a miracle come from behind victory to keep series alive at 2-1.
Australia had kept pace with the asking rate for the most of innings due to the the special cameo from travis head and glenn maxwell aggressions.
When the equation come down to last two overs 19th by axar patel and 20th by prasidh Krishna.
Then both set batsman Maxwell and wade completely utilized the dewy conditions and finding the boundries at will even when the situation were looking difficult 21 0f 6 2 of last ball.
Maxwell hit last four ball for 6,4,4,4 drilling Krishna at the finish to silence the home ground.
Maxwell ruling the night
Maxwell enters in the ground in the sixth over at 66 for 2 after avesh khan ending a good knock from the the travis head 35 in 18 balls.
Maxwell takes an early liking on the prasidh smacking two sixes and a four in the eight over to race away to 25 of 10 balls.
But when ravi bishnoi getting two huge wicket of josh inglish and marcus stoinis it puts a brake on the Australia run rate.
Still 88 of 39 balls was not a tough ask in the difficult bowling conditions was aways game on.
Maxwel would have know very well this having conceded thirty runs I the final overs of indian innings.
He started the charge towards the target by smashing six and four to avesh khan in 16th over and lauch back to back two sixes against the arshdeep sing in the 17th over of match.
A very good 18th over from prasidh Krishna put pressure on the Australia in which he just gave only four runs.
But an expensive 19th over from axar culminating in error from ishan kishan behind the stumps brought the equation of 21 of six.
Maxwell and wade got right on top of prasidh in which slow over rate also helps them by one less fielder outside the thirty yard circle.
Prasidh went short full and wide and short also with short and wide across the over and it did not seem to matter particularly to glenn maxwell.
Gaikwad and Behrendorff impressive performance
After Australia chose to bowl Jason behrendorff were most impressive bowler from their side on his return to side with 17 dots in his four over spell of 1 for 12.
But Australia leaked 210 across their other 16 overs.
Gaikwad start was slow with run a ball 22 when suryakumar yadav fell for 39 in the 11th over with india score 81 for 3.
Australia had good control on the game after jaiswal and ishan kishan fallen cheaply but hardie and tanveer sangha allow gaikwad to shift their gears with the loose bowling.
Gaikwad pulled them confidently when they drop it short and dispatched the full one in the arc between long on and deep extra cover.
This excelration helps him to comple his fifty in ony 32 balls and other 25 balls he scored 67 runs and he completed his first international century.
In last three overs of first innings india take charge and scores 67 runs in these last over and smashed the bowlers all over the park and set big target in this india vs Australia third t20 match.
Ruturaj gaikwad were most impressive from the indian side this innings from gaiwkwad showed what capable he is.
