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Virat Kohli’s Team India completed its tour of Australia in fabulous fashion winning the third ODI played in Melbourne by 7 wickets to clinch the series 2-1. The team had earlier won the Test series 2-1 while the T20 series ended in 1-1.
Earlier India bowled brilliantly to bowl out Australia for 230. Yuzvendra Chahal as the Aussies on the mat with with a fine match- winning spell of 6 for 42.
What a run-chase. The Dhoni-Jadhav duo take #TeamIndia to a thumping 7-wicket victory. India take the series 2-1 #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/vb4fZ0xwR9
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 18, 2019
In reply, India lost Rohit Sharma for 9, Shikhar Dhawan for 23 and skipper Virat Kohli for 46.
But legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored his third consecutive fifty of the series . MSD had scores of 51 in Adelaide , 55 in Sydney .
The master finisher MSD was till the end here as well, his 87 came from 114 balls, while giving Dhoni support was Kedar Jadhav, who hit an unbeaten 61 from 57 balls.
The duo were involved in an unbroken match-winning fourth wicket partnership of 121 from 116 balls to lift India to 234 for three in 49.2 overs.
