India beat Australia by 99 runs as Gill and Iyer score century.

India beat Australia by 99 runs in the second ODI to win the three match series, a big boost for team India as they tick a lot of boxes before the start of world cup, India started the innings with an early strike from Hazelwood to dismiss Ruturaj Gaikwad in the early overs than came the Gill and Iyer show as both score hundreds, with this century Iyer might have solidified his place at the world cup India reach a total of 399 as the first innings came to close with some explosion end of the innings from KL Rahul, Ishaan Kishan & Surya Kumar Yadav.

Prasidh Krishna dismissed the early wickets of Mathew Short and Steve Smith with Smith going on a golden duck, Warner and Labuschagne steadied the innings before rain halted the play, As the game resumes moments later India begins the attack again and Ravichandra Ashwin stole the show with his spin bowling at his best to dismiss both Warner and Marnus, after that Ravindra Jadeja cleaned up the rest of the Aussies with both Ashwin and Jadeja taking 3 wickets each, Sean Abbott was one of the positive of the run chase with his half century, As India finish the game by taking all the wickets. India will be boosted by the return of the big guns as Virat and Rohit returning for the 3rd ODI.

Man of the match : Shreyas Iyer 

Records :

1. India scored their highest total of 399 against Australia

2.Gill becomes the fastest to score 6 hundreds with him taking only 35 innings.

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