The victory means India, ranked third in the world, should leapfrog second placed Australia on the ICC T20 ladder.<\/p>\n
Wade was captaining Australia for the first time, beating Steve Smith to the role<\/a> after Aaron Finch was ruled out through injury.<\/p>\n "It was a lot more fun until Hardik came out to be honest," Wade said after watching the box office all-rounder blast rookie Daniel Sams for two skyscraper clutch sixes in the final over.<\/p>\n "We might have been a little bit short with the bat but not very many.<\/p>\n "When a player like Hardik comes out, he can potentially take anything off the last five or six overs.<\/p>\n "We didn't quite execute towards the end and a no ball kind of swung the momentum as well in that first six.<\/p>\n "That's the game of T20."<\/p>\n Wade, 32, described assuming the captaincy as the culmination of a childhood dream at the toss.<\/p>\n The pugnacious left-hander certainly played like a man inspired, blasting a rapid 58 at the top of the order before committing a schoolboy error.<\/a><\/p>\n Wade assumed his leading edge would be caught by rival skipper Virat Kohli and took his eye off the ball and blamed his tools by staring at his bat mid-pitch.<\/p>\n Kohli dropped a sitter but was able to run Wade out comfortably.<\/p>\n Australia still posted a more than competitive 5-194 but could have pushed past 200 if Wade had kicked on.<\/p>\n "When you get a start like that you want to try and push on so a bit disappointed to get out when I did," Wade said.<\/p>\n "If I'd kept batting for another five or six overs then you never know what score you can get.<\/p>\n "We played some pretty good cricket but just mis-executed a couple of points and that's the game, it's all over by then."<\/p>\n It should be acknowledged Australia were severely understrength with pace trio Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood, as well as opener David Warner, all absent.<\/p>\n An inexperienced bowling attack then produced a mixed bag at the SCG, and debutant Sams was left with the daunting task of bowling the final over.<\/p>\n Pandya filled his boots and former Australia star Mark Waugh was underwhelmed with the results.<\/p>\n "The Australians needed to think outside the square and change it up," Waugh said on Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n "Almost go the opposite to where Pandya thought the ball was going to be bowled.<\/p>\n "Big boundary so you're bowling in there \u2013 maybe the Australians should have bowled wide of off stump and gambled out there."<\/p>\n Former England international Isa Guha added her two cents.<\/p>\n "Those two deliveries that he hit for six \u2013 slower balls, in the slot," Guha said.<\/p>\n "If he maybe had a fine leg he could have pushed for the yorker, tried to not allow any leverage for Hardik Pandya.<\/p>\n "But strong striking."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stand-in captain Matthew Wade blames his calamitous run-out and poor death bowling for Australia's T20 series defeat to India. Hardik Pandya's heroics saw India home […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Wade](\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2020\/12\/330807\/pickerImage.jpg\")
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