India demolished Australia by seven wic🍒kets in the fifth and final ꦫODI in Nagpur to win the five-match series 4-1.
Chasing 243 for victory, openers Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane got India off to a perfect start with yet another century partnership. Rahane scored his fourth consecutive half-century but wasn’t able to convert it into a hundred once again.
On the other hand, Rohit went on to score his 14th ODI century before falling for 125 towards th𝓡e end of the💎 innings.
It was a mere formality by then and the final rites were performed by Kedar Jadhav & Manish Pandey.
Jai Hind!
— BCCI (@BCCI)
Rohit was named the man of the match while Hardik Pandya was awarded the man of the series award.
Here’s how the cricket fraternity reacted on Team India’s series win:
India made a 🍬sluggish🃏 pitch look easy with an excellent run chase. It is not always that the Aussies are dominated but they were here
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Aussies outplayed ever so convincingly, 🎀clinical finish to a series already in the pocket
— S.Badrinath (@s_badrinath)
Congratulations on becoming no.1 again!!♔ Time to consolidate it now!! 💪🏽 congrats
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa)
Brilliant performance !!!
You gave us a good old fashioned kick in the bum! #4-𓂃🐻1— Dean Jones AM (@ProfDeano)
4-1. And that ensures top ranking in ODI cricket for Team India. Well played 👏😊🏏
अब T20 की बारी….— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
May seem like a cakewalk but in fact highly skilful & purposeful performance by India — in bowling & batting. Befitting no.1 ODI team!
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
Congrats Team India on a fantastic series ཧwin.Really happy to see a lot of ♚players contributing in this win.Keep it up!!
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
Beating AUS 4-1 is always special. Well played . you were too good. I👍MG:BCCI
— Ishant Sharma (@ImIshant)
Champions 💪 No.1 Team🇮🇳 4-1👌🏻
— Yuzvendra Chahal (@yuzi_chahal)
Con🗹grats Team In𒊎dia 🇮🇳 for taking the top spot in the ODI rankings! Wonderful to see the team step up to every challenge 👍👏
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj)
Congrats team India 4 d series win vs Aussies.sign of great things 2come in d future n that is 2 rule world cr🐼icket for long
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)