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Patna ; Australia beat India by 12 runs in the 3rd T20I at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia, on December 8, 2020, as spinner Mitchell Swepson took 3/23 in 4 overs while opener Matthew Wade scored 80 in 53 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes and all-rounder Glenn Maxwell scoring 54 in 36 balls hitting 3 fours and 3 sixes. India though won the three-match series 2-1 having won the first two matches. India won the toss and opted to bowl. Swepson was named Player Of The Match. Australia had won the three-match ODI series 2-1.
For India, captain Virat Kohli scored 85 in 61 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes while opener Shikhar Dhawan scored 28 in 21 ball hitting 3 fours. Replying to Australia’s 186/5 in 20 overs, India scored 174/7 in 20 overs despite making a disastrous start losing the wicket of opener Lokesh Rahul for zero with no run on board. Rahul fell to Glenn Maxwell. Kohli and Dhawan added 74 runs for the 2nd wicket. Dhawan fell to Swepson making it 74/2. Sanju Samson fell to Swepson for 10 and it was 97/3. Shreyas Iyer also fell to Swepson for zero making it 100/4.
Kohli and Pandya added 44 runs for the 5th wicket. Pandya fell to spinner Adam Zampa for 20 in 13 balls hitting 1 four and 2 sixes and it was 144/5. Kohli fell to medium fast bowler Andrew Tye for 85 and it was 151/6 (18.1 overs). Washington Sundar fell to fast bowler Sean Abbot for 7 making it was 164/7(19.2 overs). Fast bowler Shardul Thakur remained unbeaten on 17 in 7 balls with 2 sixes.