Team India finished the ODI leg of the Australia tour on a high with a commanding 9-wicket victory in the third match at Sydney Cricket Ground. Having lost the ODI series with two successive losses in Perth and Adelaide, the Men in Blue earned a consolation win to end the ODI leg on a positive note before the T20I series.
However, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, who likely played their last match on Australian soil, stole the spotlight with their unbeaten match-winning 168-run partnership for the second wicket to chase down a 237-run target with 69 balls to spare. Rohit played a brilliant innings of 121 off 125 balls, recording his 50th international century, and Virat Kohli, on the other hand, scored 74 off 81 balls, helping him surpass former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara’s tally of 14234 runs to become the second-leading run-getter in ODI history.