MELBOURNE – India leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal captured the best figures by any bowler in one-day cricket in Australia to restrict the home side to just 230 in the third and deciding game in Melbourne on Friday.
Chahal, playing in his first match in the series after coming in for Test wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav, control the Australians with his six for 42 to set India 231 to win the match and the series.
Chahal shares the record with fellow Indian Ajit Agarkar, who claimed the same figures against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2004.
Only Peter Handscomb showed any clear cut fight for Australia with his 58 off 63 balls before he became one of Chahal’s victims.
