Australia's fast-bowling all-rounder Marcus Stoinis thinks the tourists' deep batting line-up might have been carried away on seeing Mitchell Marsh waltz his way to 81 in the first ODI, and fell in a heap, resulting in a five-wicket loss in the first ODI against India.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
At the Wankhede Stadium on Friday, Australia were cruising at 129\/2, thanks to Marsh's 81 off 65 balls, including ten fours and five sixes, in a batting line-up running till number eight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But a collapse of 8\/59, triggered by fast bowling duo of Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj resulted in Australia being bundled out for 188 within 36 overs on a pitch offering continuous assistance to seamers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"To an extent we might have gotten carried away watching Mitch bat and how well he struck them, and then thinking the score might need to be higher than what was necessary.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
There was a bit in the wicket. We need to be a bit better with our techniques and figure out how we're going to play that. I think KL's way of batting and blueprint looked about right," Stoinis was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In chasing 189, India were at a precarious 83\/5 in 19.2 overs, with left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc taking three wickets in a beautiful exhibition of seam bowling.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul slammed an unbeaten 75 and along with Ravindra Jadeja's 45 not out, he was involved in an unbroken 108-run stand for the sixth wicket to India get over the line and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Stoinis conceded Australia never adjusted to the conditions on ground, something which India did through Rahul and Jadeja.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We didn't sum the conditions up well enough and didn't score enough. We're experimenting with a few different combinations, playing eight batters," he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We understand that if we're going to play eight batters, we still need to play a certain way up until the 35th over or whatever it might be, and then when the time comes we can assert some authority on that with our back-end power hitters," he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The second ODI of the three-match series between India and Australia will be played at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We understand that if we're going to play eight batters, we still need to play a certain way up until the 35th over or whatever it might be, and then when the time comes we can assert some authority on that with our back-end power hitters," he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n