India beat Australia by 11 runs in the first ODI. With this, Team India has gone ahead 1-0 in the 3 ODI series. The second ODI will be played in Visakhapatnam on Sunday. India’s Ravindra Jadeja, who took a diving catch in the first innings of the first match, was the player of the match.

Actor Rajinikanth watched the match sitting in the VIP area, ‘Sachin…Sachin…’ chants echoed in the stadium and Mohammed Siraj celebrated in the style of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. We will know such top moments of the match in this news.

1. Superb diving catch by Jadeja
In the first innings, Australian opener Mitchell Marsh played a fiery inning of 81 runs. Ravindra Jadeja got him caught out by Hardik Pandya. Jadeja then caught a brilliant diving catch by Marnus Labuschagne. Kuldeep Yadav bowled the fourth ball of the 23rd over short of good length on the off stump. Labushen cuts, Jadeja runs from short third man towards backward point and dives 10 feet away to take the catch.

Labushen had to return to the pavilion only on the score of 15 runs. Jadeja also took the wicket of Glenn Maxwell after this. Then in the second innings, an unbeaten partnership of 108 runs with KL Rahul gave victory to Team India. He was awarded the Player of the Match for this performance.

Ravindra Jadeja sent Marnus Labushen to the pavilion with an excellent diving catch.

2. Rajinikanth watched the match
Many former cricketers and Bollywood stars arrived to watch the match between India and Australia at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Actors Rajinikanth and Ajay Devgan were also included in these. Apart from these, industrialist Anand Mahindra, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, former ICC chairman Sharad Pawar and former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin also reached. Everyone enjoyed the match sitting in the VIP lounge.

Actor Rajinikanth also watched the India-Australia match sitting in the VIP lounge.

3. Celebration of Siraj in Ronaldo style
India’s Mohammad Siraj took 3 wickets for 29 runs in the first ODI against Australia. He also took the wickets of Sean Abbott and Adam Zampa after bowling opener Travis Head. He jumped in the air after taking the last wicket of the Australian innings. His celebration was like Portugal’s famous footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Siraj is often seen celebrating like this after taking a wicket.

Fast bowler Mohammad Siraj celebrating in Ronaldo style after taking a wicket.

4. ‘Sachin…Sachin….’ echoed in the stadium.
Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar used to play domestic cricket for Mumbai. A stand has also been built in his name at the Wankhede Stadium. There was a moment during the match when the spectators sitting in the stadium were chanting ‘Sachin…Sachin…’. Apart from Sachin, the names of Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja were also raised in the stadium full of spectators.

Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium filled with spectators echoed with slogans of ‘Sachin… Sachin…’.

5. Virat’s ‘natu-natu’ dance
While fielding in the first innings of the match, India’s Virat Kohli was seen performing dance steps to the Oscar winning song ‘Naatu Naatu’. During the first powerplay, Virat was standing in the slips, during which the song Natu-Natu started playing in the stadium, on which Virat started dancing. Virat could not do anything special with the bat in the match and scored 4 runs in 9 balls and fell victim to Mitchell Starc for the first time in his ODI career.

Virat Kohli dancing on the dance steps of Natu-Natu.

6. Kohli-Surya out in consecutive balls
Chasing the target of 189 runs, Team India got off to a bad start. The team lost the wicket of Ishaan Kishan in the second over itself. After him, in the fifth over, Mitchell Starc also sent Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav to the pavilion. Stark did both LBW on the fifth and sixth balls of the over.

As soon as Surya was dismissed, India’s score was 3 for 16, after which there was silence in the stadium. Starc ended his spell with 3 wickets in 9.5 overs, but India won the match by 5 wickets after wicketkeeper KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja’s strong batting.

There was silence in the stadium as soon as Virat Kohli was LBW.

7. Shubman Gill missed the catch, got 2 lives
India’s opener Shubman Gill dropped a simple catch in the first innings. Australia’s Cameron Green cuts on Hardik Pandya’s bowling, but the ball goes into the slips. Gill tried to take the catch, but the ball missed his hand. Gill rectified this mistake and in the end caught great catches by Marcus Stoinis and Sean Abbott.

Gill, who came to bat in the second innings, also got lucky. Australian captain Steve Smith and wicketkeeper Josh English dropped their catches. He survived the review once he was adjudged LBW. He could not take advantage of these lives as well and in the 11th over, he was caught by Stark’s ball to Marnus Labushen standing at point. Gill scored 20 runs in 31 balls.

Gill dropped a simple catch like this in the first innings.

Gill again took a diving catch at the end of the innings.

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