Australia vs. India: Winners and Losers from 5th ODI
India finally got one over on the rampaging Australians by emerging on the right end of a tight run chase at the Sydney Cricket Ground to win by six wickets.
The tourists still lost the series 4-1, but with a trio of T20 internationals scheduled over the next week or so, their confidence should have received a much-needed boost.
On a personal level, however, which players enhanced their reputations on the hallowed SCG turf? And who will be anxiously awaiting the results of the next selection committee fearing the chop?
Let's take a look at the individual winners and losers from this contest.
Winner: Manish Pandey
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Performance: 104 not out
In just his third ODI innings, Manish Pandey announced himself on the world stage with a sensational match-winning ton that lit up the SCG.
While he's most commonly known for his T20 exploits—he's the first Indian player to score a century in the Indian Premier League—the 26-year-old averages 50.37 in first-class cricket.
His knock at Sydney came off just 81 balls and, with help from Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni, helped his country pull off a perfect run chase to claim a memorable and much-needed victory.
Loser: Nathan Lyon
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Performance: 0/58 from eight overs and a dropped catch
After his impressive recent performances in Test cricket, there has been a clamour to get Nathan Lyon into Australia's T20 team for the World Cup; however, this performance won't have done him many favours.
The understated off-spinner was picked off at will by India's batsman, managing to send down just 14 dot-balls from his 49 deliveries and remaining wicketless.
To make matters worse, in what was just his ninth ODI, Lyon dropped MS Dhoni when he had scored just seven runs at a crucial part of the game.
Winner: David Warner
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Performance: 122
Having recently become a father for the second time and missing a couple of ODIs in the process, David Warner has effortlessly reclaimed his position back at the top of the Australia order.
A fluent innings of 93 at Canberra was backed up in Sydney with a thunderous 122 that came off just 113 balls and contained 12 savagely dismissed boundaries, three of which cleared the ropes.
The ICC batting rankings may have Warner currently ranked as the 23rd best 50-over batsman in the world, but the powerful left-hander should clearly be much higher up the list.
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Loser: Umesh Yadav
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Performance: 1/82 from eight overs
It was a game to forget for Umesh Yadav who took some frightful taps from his eight overs that disappeared all over the park and even over the boundary on a couple of occasions.
While he's claimed seven scalps across the series, including Matthew Wade here, the 28-year-old has struggled to maintain control on the flat, batsman's paradise tracks of Australia.
Apart from Nathan Lyon, Yadav is the most expensive bowler from anyone who's delivered more than four overs in the entire series, conceding 345 runs at an economy rate of 7.21.
Winner: Jasprit Bumrah
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Performance: 2/40 from 10 overs
India's Jasprit Bumrah made an impressive international debut, recording the most miserly figures in the game to help restrict Australia's total.
A medium pacer with an unusual action, the 22-year-old has been a fixture in the IPL over the last three seasons and boasts an economy rate of 7.34 in cricket's shortest format.
Impressively, Bumrah managed to transfer this control to the ODI arena and picked up the wicket of Aussie skipper Steven Smith in the process. Not a bad first international scalp!
Loser: Shaun Marsh
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Performance: 7 and a dropped catch
It's been a strange summer for Shaun Marsh who has scored decent runs for Australia when given the opportunity—see his 182 against the Windies—only to find himself being regularly dropped.
Despite scoring two half centuries in the second and third clashes of this series, he was unceremoniously dropped in Canberra to accommodate the returning David Warner.
Given his advanced age of 32 years old, Marsh could have done with a significant innings upon his recall in Sydney; however, seven from 13 balls is unlikely to turn the selectors' heads.
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