Australia's last warm-up crippled up of the T20 World Cup has thrown up much questions than answers for the struggling batting line-up.
After being 3-11 astatine 1 point, Australia eked retired a humble full of 5-152, a people that India reached with 8 wickets, and 13 balls, to spare.
One of the fewer agleam spots for Australia was 57 disconnected 48 balls from Steve Smith, his archetypal half-century since March, portion Glenn Maxwell made 37 disconnected 28, and Marcus Stoinis an unbeaten 41 disconnected 25.
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But the mediate bid couldn't flooded a disastrous start, which saw David Warner (1), Mitchell Marsh (first ball) and Aaron Finch (8) depart wrong the archetypal 4 overs, arsenic Australia's frailties against rotation were exposed.
India was hardly troubled during the match, arsenic tin beryllium seen from the bowling figures, which diagnostic a uncommon quality from Virat Kohli, whose 2 overs outgo 12 runs. That attack carried implicit into the batting, which saw Rohit Sharma discontinue aft reaching 60 disconnected 41 balls.
KL Rahul was the lone wicket to fall, with Ashton Agar (1-14 disconnected 2) the palmy bowler.
The lucifer has further muddied the waters implicit what is Australia's champion T20 line-up, which is simply a damming indictment connected a squad which has had 5 years to hole for this tournament, and yet days retired from the archetypal lucifer the champion batting bid remains a mystery.
Australia opens its run against South Africa connected Saturday.
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