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Khan to Kohli, 1 run, OUT, slower full ball at 123ks, Kohli clips it away to midwicket and calls for two straight away. Zaheer collects the ball cleanly and takes the bails off at the bowler's end. Travis Head is responding to Kohli's call but he may be gone here. This one looks pretty close. The throw from Shreyas Iyer is slightly wide but Zaheer has done superbly to extend both hands and collect it cleanly and takes off the bails. And Head is gone by a comfortable distance

TM Head run out 2 (2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 100.00

Khan to Kohli, OUT, Kohli picks out long-off. It was a fuller ball, pushed across at 129ks, in the slot for Kohli who clears the front leg. But he just quite doesn't get underneath it. Doesn't find the middle of the bat and sails comfortably into the waiting hands of Nadeem. Kohli is furious with himself, he was all set to shift into top gear

V Kohli c Nadeem b Khan 58 (45b 3x4 3x6) SR: 128.88

Khan to Kohli, SIX, there are those powerful wrists of Kohli. Zaheer looks for a yorker and fires a harmless knee-height full toss that is flicked over deep midwicket with supreme timing

Khan to Kohli, no run, return catch, dropped. Extremely hard. Kohli flat-bats a slower length ball straight back at Zaheer. The ball just doesn't stick on, hit very hard, lack of pace messes up Kohli's timing

Mohammed Shami to Jadhav, OUT, yorker, just outside off, dug out to short third man and that's a run out at the non-striker's end. Jadhav takes off for the single, Cummins picks up the ball and hurls a throw at the non-striker's end. The bowler is standing on the way but Shami does well to take his hand out of the way and just lets it go. And the ball hits the stumps as Jadhav is well short of the ground

KM Jadhav run out 12 (9b 0x4 1x6) SR: 133.33

Cummins to Sachin Baby, OUT, good catch by Corey Anderson in front of the long-on boundary. Good awareness of where the ropes are. Extremely full ball and Baby backs himself to launch it. But the ball is fired on middle, on target, which means he really does not have the room to completely open up his arms. He skies it and Anderson snaffles it right in front of the long-on boundary and stops in his tracks as he moves back and manages to balance himself in front of the ropes

Sachin Baby c Anderson b Cummins 12 (8b 2x4 0x6) SR: 150.00

Anderson to Negi, 1 run, backs away to this fuller one and hammers a drive but straight to cover

Anderson to Negi, FOUR, full, outside off and this time the connection is sweet. Drilled off the middle of the bat. Overpitched outside off, gets the front leg out of the way and sends it crashing through extra cover

Anderson to Negi, FOUR, outside edge for four. Stays stapled to the crease and swings hard at this wide delivery outside off, sends it uppishly through third man

Anderson to Negi, FOUR, swings hard after reaching out to this wide delivery and skews it off the outside edge through third man, gets it over the man inside the circle

Anderson to Negi, no run, Anderson is claiming a caught and bowled and the umpire isn't too excited. Shamshuddin walks up to the square leg umpire and they refer this upstairs. Soft signal is not out. Tell you what, if he has taken this, this could be one of the catches of the tournament. Ah, no, the ball has clearly bounced before going to the bowler. Hitting the pad and bouncing before going to the bowler. Anderson flings himself to his left of the follow-through to catch it. Negi was swiping hard across the line and didn't find the middle of the bat

Anderson to Negi, 1 wide, tries to take it away from the batsman and the drift away is too sharp, wide outside off

Anderson to Watson, 1 run, back of a length, angled in at off, Watson backs away and pulls to deep midwicket. Not much pace, so he is not finding the power he is looking for

Anderson to Watson, 1 wide, Watson backs away and Anderson tries to follow him, sprays a wide down the leg side

Avesh Khan to Samson, OUT, lovely. Once more, he's generated some serious pace off this slow wicket. Back of a length outside off, climbs steeply on Samson who is very late on the pull shot. Can only find Kohli at mid-on

SV Samson c Kohli b Avesh Khan 0 (2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

Watson to Nair, OUT, back of a length at middle stump, goes for the pull shot, he's late on it. Drags it feebly to midwicket where Jadhav runs in towards the ball, then gains balance, and holds on

KK Nair c Jadhav b Watson 26 (22b 5x4 0x6) SR: 118.18

Patel to Samuels, OUT, what a ball! Superb stuff from Harshal. Bowls him the slower ball first up and Samuels, visibly, is completely flummoxed. Has no clue what's happened out there and lazily pokes the bat out with feet cemented firmly in the crease. In the mean time, the ball pitches on a length at off stump, cuts back in and takes his stumps

MN Samuels b Patel 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

Patel to Iyer, OUT, and once more. This time he finds the fielder. Slower ball, dropped short outside off stump. He's looking to slap it in front of square on the off side but is through the shot too early. Toe-ends it straight to extra cover

SS Iyer c Watson b Patel 32 (30b 2x4 1x6) SR: 106.66