For the 4th match in the series both sides made changes. India brought in KL Rahul, Risbabh Pant, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Yuzvendra Chahal, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni, Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja the men to miss out this time. Australia, for their part, brought in Ashton Turner and Jason Behrendorff for Marcus Stoinis and Nathan Lyon.
It was India who won the toss in Chandigarh and, deciding to bat first, got off to a brilliant start thanks to their opening pair of Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma who put on 193 for the first wicket off 31 overs. Both men seemed certain to make a hundred, but, when he had reached 95, and having struck 2 sixes and 7 fours, Sharma was dismissed, caught by Peter Handscomb off the bowling of Jhye Richardson.
Shortly afterwards, though, Dhawan did reach three figures, his 16th ODI century.
He then added 61 for the third wicket with Rahul, although the latter only scored 13 of them, until he was bowled by Pat Cummins for 143. Scored off just 115 balls, his innings featured 3 sixes and 18 fours, and was his highest in ODIs.
Virat Kohli for once, failed with the bat, caught behind off Richardson for just 7, but Risbabh Pant and Rahul added 30 before Rahul was also caught behind, this time off Adam Zampa, for 26. Next to go was Pant who had scored a brisk 36 off 24 balls until he was caught by Aaron Finch off Cummins.
With overs running out, wickets were sacrificed in the chase for quick runs. Jadhav gave Cummins another wicket, when he was caught for 10, and then Kumar was caught behind off the bowling of Richardson. Vijay Shankar fired a quick 26, but then was out to Cummins, who took his 5th wicket when he had Chahal caught and bowled. In the end India closed on 358 – 9, with Jasprit Bumrah 6 not out.
Cummins claimed 5 wickets but conceded 70 runs into the bargain.
Australia suffered an early blow in their reply, losing captain Finch bowled by Kumar in the first over. Then they suffered another dent in their innings when Shaun Marsh was bowled cheaply by Bumrah. However, then the visitors produced a major partnership of their own, with Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb sharing a stand of 192 for the third wicket, until Khawaja fell for 9, caught by Kuldeep Yadav off Bumrah. He had hit 11 fours.
Handscomb though was still going and he reached his maiden ODI century, as he shared a stand of 25 for the 4th wicket with Glenn Maxwell and then, when Maxwell was lbw to Yadav for 23, putting on 32 for the 5th wicket with Ashton. However, when he had reached 117, he was caught by Rahul of Yuzvendra Chahal, having struck 3 sixes and 8 fours.
That brought Alex Carey to the crease, and he played a fine supporting role as Turner went on the attack. The 26-year old scored his highest ODI score in reaching 84 not out, including 6 sixes and 5 fours, struck off just 43 balls. Carey was caught by Dhawan off Bumrah for 21 just before the end, but by then the visitors were on the verge of victory, with Turner hitting the winning runs, with 13 balls still to be bowled.
Ashton Turner’s effort earned him the man of the match award.