ICC World Twenty20 2016 - 31st Match
(Super 10 Group 2 - India vs Australia)
Magical Kohli steers India into semi-finals
| Australia | vs | India |
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| 160/6 (20) | 161/4 (19.1) | |
| India won by 6 wickets | ||
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Is there a finer chaser in world cricket than Virat Kohli? MS Dhoni perhaps? It was a good thing for India the two of them were together in the dying stages of their quasi quarter-final against Australia in Mohali. Dhoni's men progressed to a semi-final, against West Indies, and ended Australia's World T20 campaign, and the international career of Shane Watson, with a chase of impeccable timing led by Kohli.
Set 161 for victory, India saw their required run-rate balloon up past 10 an over, up towards 12 an over, but Kohli was always poised to prick the balloon. He did so with such perfect timing - 20 runs coming off the fourth-last over against James Faulkner and then 16 off the next from Nathan Coulter-Nile - that you felt he never doubted himself. In the end, India got home with five balls to spare, madness when you consider they needed 47 off 24.
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