![]() Set for a late July release after its competition bow at the Shanghai Film Festival, it has the chops to draw the high-testosterone male demographic, but feels too macho-centric to cross over to the Million Dollar Baby crowd. Here Gyllenhaal gets the makeover as a bloodied, battered but magnetic prize-fighter. Director Antoine Fuqua has shown his talent for bringing out the shadowy side of nice guys like Denzel Washington in The Equalizer and Training Day. India vs Australia brief scores: India 235/4 in 20 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 58, Yashasvi Jaiswal 53 Nathan Ellis 3/45) beat Australia 191/9 in 20 overs (Marcus Stoinis 45, Matthew Wade 42* Ravi Bishnoi 3/32) by 44 runs.A taut boxing yarn about a champ who loses it all and has to fight his way back to keep custody of his daughter, Southpaw sticks to tried-and-tested genre rules, yet an edgy cast - led by formidable leading man Jake Gyllenhaal - keeps the story in sharp focus. Yashasvi Jaiswal was declared man of the match for scoring a quickfire 53 and taking two catches. Despite Australian captain Matthew Wade fighting at one end, the chase proved too much for Australia, who finished at 191/9 in 20 overs. However, with the wickets of Tim David and Marcus Stoinis in the 14th and 15th overs, Australia’s lower order was left with a steep mountain to climb against the inaugural T20 World Cup championsįrom 148/6 in the 15th over, Australia were reduced to 155/9 in the 17th over. Australia seemed down and out at 4-58 in the eighth over, chasing a mammoth 235.īig hitters Tim David (37 off 22) and Marcus Stoinis (45 off 25) put on a handy 81-run partnership in the next six overs to keep Australia in contention. ![]() The wickets enabled India to put a leash on the run rate which forced Steven Smith (19 off 16) to go on the attack and lose his wicket in the process. Prasidh Krishna then dismissed Josh Inglis (2 off 4) on the second ball of the fifth over while Axar Patel (1/25) got the wicket of dangerous Glenn Maxwell on the penultimate ball of the powerplay to reduce Australia to 53/3. With the Australian openers finding it easy against the pace, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav introduced leg-spin through Ravi Bishnoi in the third over, resulting in the wicket of Matthew Short (19 off 10) on the fifth ball. Nathan Ellis bowled four overs for 3/45 and was the pick of the bowlers for Australia.Īustralia took Arshdeep Singh’s opening over for 11 runs before plundering Prasidh Krishna at the other end for another expensive over of 20 runs. With less than five overs to go and with eight wickets in the bag, incoming batters Suryakumar Yadav (19 off 10), Rinku Singh (31 not out off 9) and Tilak Verma (7 not out off 2) displayed incredible big-hitting abilities to take the score to 235/4 in 20 overs. Soon after India brought up their 100 in 9.5 overs, the southpaw changed gears and from 26 off 22 balls, ended his innings on 52 off 32 with 164 runs on the board for India in 15.2 overs. Ishan Kishan came in one down and was circumspect at the start of his innings. While Ruturaj Gaikwad (58 off 43) played second fiddle at the other end, Jaiswal propelled India’s score to 77 runs inside the powerplay before finally being caught out on the bowling of Nathan Ellis in the sixth over. Put into bat first by Australia, Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (53 off 25) took the attack to the Australian bowlers and helped India bring up the 50 in mere 3.5 overs. The win also enabled India to take a 2-0 lead in the series, having won the previous contest in Visakhapatnam by two wickets. India’s total was their fifth-highest score in the T20 cricket. India registered 235/4 in their 20 overs before restricting Australia to 191/9. Riding on a clinical all-round display, the Indian men’s cricket team defeated Australia by 44 runs in the second of the five-match T20 series at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
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