Captain Shubman Gill said India put up a good score versus Australia, but missed catches cost them. India dropped three important catches. Nitish Kumar Reddy couldn't hold onto a catch from Travis Head, and Axar Patel and Mohammed Siraj gave Matthew Short two more chances. While the Head drop wasn't a game-changer, the Short miss was expensive since he then made a good half-century, scoring 78 runs off 74 balls. The fact that India almost won, getting down to the final two Australian wickets, shows how tough they are. It makes you wonder what might have happened if they'd caught those chances.
India bounced back well from a shaky 16/2 to end up at 264/9 after fifty overs. Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer pitched in, and Axar Patel's 44 was key in helping India get a decent sc