India made a winning start in the fifth match of the World Cup by defeating Australia easily by 6 wickets thanks to the responsible batting of Virat Kohli and KL Rahul.

Indian batsmen chased down Australia's 200-run target in the 42nd over, with Virat Kohli and KL Rahul taking charge after 3 wickets for 2 runs.

Virat Kohli scored 85 and KL Rahul scored an unbeaten 97 to lead the team to victory.

In the match played in Chennai, Australia won the toss and elected to bat first against India.

Australian captain Pete Cummins said that our team is balanced, we are fresh and in a good position, the players have got enough time for preparations before the match.

Australia's innings

The Australian team could not play openly in front of the Indian bowlers during the entire innings and batted slowly in the match, during which their wickets continued to fall one after the other.

Mitchell Starc scored 28 runs, Marence Labushin scored 27 runs while Pat Cummins and Glenn Maxwell scored 15 runs and 15 runs respectively.

India's Ravindra Jadeja picked up 3 wickets while Kuldeep Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah picked up 2 wickets each. Alaa Mohammad Siraj, Ravichandran Ashwin and Hardik Pandya got one wicket each.

Indian innings

India's pursuit of the 200-run target did not get off to a good start, with the Australian bowlers bowling disastrously early in the innings and sending the Indian top-order to the pavilion.

With India's total score of 2, 3 players returned to the pavilion, Ishan Kishan, captain Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer were out for zero.

After the loss of 3 wickets, the Australian team put a lot of pressure on the Indian team, the Kangaroos could have got the fourth wicket at a total score of 20, but Mitchell Marsh dropped Virat Kohli's catch and gave them a chance and then the Indian batsmen did not look back. saw

Virat Kohli once again proved to be the crisis man and played a brilliant innings of 85 runs, but he could not score a century and was caught out.

Kohli and Rahul formed a brilliant partnership of 165 runs, Rahul scored an unbeaten 97 off 115 balls. Hardik Pandya also scored 11 runs.

For Australia, Josh Hazlewood took 3 wickets and Mitchell Starc took one wicket.

KL Rahul was awarded the man of the match award for his brilliant batting.