In Pictures: India’s win over Australia in 1st T20I at Ranchi

Virat Kohli won the toss and with rain in the air, India made the smart move to bowl first.

Jasprit Bumrah is arguably the best death bowler in current cricket. The youngster piled up more miseries in the visitor camp. He cleaned up Tim Paine and Nathan Coulter-Nile in the 18th over © AFP

Australia had limped to 118 for 8 in the 19th over when rain halted India’s march. A good 90 minutes play was lost as a result. When play resumed India were chasing a DLS revised total of 48 off 6 overs Jasprit Bumrah is arguably the best death bowler in current cricket. The youngster piled up more miseries in the visitor camp. He cleaned up Tim Paine and Nathan Coulter-Nile in the 18th over © AFP

Rohit Sharma started on a positive note slamming a boundary and a six off the first six balls he faced. He went for another ambitious shot off Coulter-Nile in the second over only to have his middle-stump uprooted © AFP

Comeback man Shikhar (right) Dhawan and Virat Kohli guided India to an easy win with 3 balls to go as they went up 1-0 in the T20I series © AFP

Yuzvendra Chahal got Glenn Maxwell for the fourth time in their four face-offs. Chahal almost had nabbed a brilliant catch of Tim Paine. His final over saw 2 dropped catches and 1 missed stumping. He returned with figures of 4-0-23-1 © AFP

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