India vs Australia, 2nd T20I: As it happened...

After a stunning nine-wicket victory in a rain-marred first T20I encounter in Ranchi, Team India will be aiming to wrap up the three-match series when they face a hapless Australian side in the second match at Barsapara Stadium in Guwahati.

IANS

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of second T20 international between India vs Australia in Guwahati. Here you can catch live updates, scores, commentary, analysis from the game in real time. (SCORECARD)

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AUSTRALIA INNINGS (Target 119)

15.3 Over: Chahal for his last over. And that's it for India. Australia finish off in style with a stunning boundary. Series level at 1-1 as action shifts to Hyderabad. 

15th Over: Henriques strikes back-to-back sixes to notch up his T20I fifty. Kuldeep has been at the receiving end of most of the punishment tonight. And then comes up the 100-run partnership for the duo. 114/2

14th Over: Chahal for his third over. Five runs from the over. 97/2

13th Over: Kuldeep in for his third over. Gives away just four singles. 92/2

12th Over: Chahal stepped in for his second over and gave away 1o runs off it. Head-Henriques partnership goes to 75 runs as Australia edge closer to victory. 88/2

11th Over: Yadav continues to be expensive, seems a bit nervous as well as the Aussies are taking him on. Head (30) and Henriques (37) collect a four each to take Australia closer. 78/2

10th Over: Chahal into the attack and bowls an excellent over until the last ball that Henriques late cut for a four. 67/2

9th Over: Runs coming from both ends now as Head decides to put Pandya to the sword. 2-4-1-4-0-0. 61/2

8th Over: Kuldeep into the attack, and Henriques (19*) decides to take him on. 14 runs off the over, including a six and a four. It brings up Australia's fifty as well. 50/2

7th Over: Pandya begins his spell on a miserly note, keeps the leash on the Aussies giving away just two runs. Spinners will be on soon, and India have two - Chahal and Kuldeep. Their spells could decide the match. 36/2

6th Over: Big Shot! Really Big! A hook from Henriques off Bumrah goes deep into the stands. Australia have wrestled some momentum back. End of the Powerplay. 34/2

5th Over: Aussies scoring at five runs per over, but they won't mind that since the target isn't a daunting one. Wickets crucial in low-scoring matcbhes. By the way an excellent over by Bhuvi, just one off it. 25/2

4th Over: Bumrah gets some treatment from Head (11*), who takes him for a couple of boundaries to ease some of the nerves in the dugout. 24/2

3rd Over: WICKET! This match is turning on its head, possibly. Finch (8) meets a soft dismissal, trying to hit on the up, but straight to Kohli in the covers. 14/2

2nd Over: Bumrah strikes! Gets the big wicket of Warner (2) who miscues an attempted pull shot. Caught by Kohli, who is all pumped up. 12/1

1st Over: Appreciable swing for Bhuvneshwar and Australian openers Finch and Warner are trying to play the ball late. 6/0

INDIA INNINGS (118 all out)

20th Over: INDIA ALL OUT FOR 118 OFF THE LAST BALL. Kuldeep Yadav played a useful hand of 18 before being dismissed by Tye off the last over. Bumrah (7) also run out in the last over, direct, direct hit by Paine as Kuldeep tried to sneak a bye. Behrendorff finishes with best figures of 4/21 in his only second T20I. Adam Zampa too 2/19.

19th Over: Almost a run-out off the last ball as Bumrah hit it to mid-off and ran into the bowler Coulter-Nile while completing a single. Both exchanged smiles in the end. IND 114/8

18th Over: Pandya (25) out caught in the deep! Couldn't get under the fullish delivery from Stoinis to hit the distance. IND 104/8.

17th Over: Pandya's first six, off Tye, helps India reach 100 in 16.5 overs. That raises hopes of crossing 125, but Pandya has to last the distance. 101/7

16th Over: India 90/7, and the hosts have their hopes pinned to Hardik Pandya who went for his first big shot against Stoinis, but couldn't connect properly. Just a single off it. 

15th Over: Tye bowls a beamer, untintentional, of course, as the ball is difficult to grip due to wet conditions. Kuldeep faces the Free Hit, almost a beamer again, but he flashes hard and gets the edge that beats 'keeper Paine. IND 85/7

14th Over: It's all sevens with six overs more to play for India. 77/7, with Hardika Pandya (9) and Kuldeep Yadav (5) on the pitch. Regular fall of wickets not allowing Pandya to use the long handle.

13th Over: Another wicket! Coulter-Nile strikes as Bhuvneshwar (1) tried to guid a short ball but hit it straight to the third-man fielder Moises Henriques. IND 71/7, and struggling to last 20 overs.

12th Over: Gone! Zampa's googly does the job to remove Jadhav (27). This leaves India in big, big trouble because he was the set batsman and had some measure of the bowling. IND 69/6 

11th Over: The overs are ticking by, but India nee to take it to 15th over now without losing anymore wickets. That will give them room for a final flourish in last five. 67/5

10th Over: What a ripping leg-spinner by Zampa to fox the wily Dhoni (13). Came out, but not enough to kill the spin that beat him, leaving Paine with an easy job to take the bails off. IND 60/5.

9th Over: India's 50 comes up. So Dhoni and Jadhav have steadied the ship a bit after 27/4. Stoinis does well to come back after conceding a boundary to Jadhav off the first ball. IND 54/4

8th Over: First sign of spin. Adam Zama into the attack. Bowls six tidy deliveries that were taken for just four runs. IND 47/4. Dhoni 8, Jadhav 19.

7th over: Behrendorff almost completes a five-for but the return catch off Jadhav just eluded his dive. He finishes with top figures of 2/21. IND 43/3.

6th Over: Andrew Tye into the attack, but Jadhav isn't in mood to hold back despite a flurry of wickets. Width on offer and he cuts hard for another boundary. India 38/4.

5th Over: Warner takes a stunner to send Dhawan (2) back, and it's Behrendorff again, his fourth wicket. Jadhav then cuts one over the point region for another boundary. He knows only one way of playing, and that's attack. IND 31/4

4th Over: Eventful over by Coulter-Nile! Jadhav's cut goes agonisingly past a diving point, Dhawan struck on the helmet, and then a pull shot by Jadhav for SIX. India 27/3

3rd Over: Behrendorff won't mind conceding fours if he keeps taking a WICKET next ball. Manish Pandey's (6) feet moved nowhere as he poked at an outswinger that took the edge en route 'keeper Tim Paine. IND 16/3

2nd Over: Coulter-Nile follows up with a good first over after the damage Behrendorff did in the first. IND 12/2

1st Over: What a first over from Jason Behrendorf! First Rohit Sharma (8) begins and exits like a blaze. Two fours in first three balls, and the bowler replied back by hitting Rohit (8) right in front. He and Dhawan thought about DRS for a moment, but decided against taking it. Virat Kohli (0) in, almost as an opener, and exits without trouble the scorers, caught and bowled. Kohli's first duch in T20Is. IND 8/2

6:55 p.m. Australia begin the match with an advantage, considering the rain threat and D/L system coming into equation that always helps the chasing team.

PLAYING XIs:

INDIA: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (c), Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah

AUSTRALIA: David Warner (c), Aaron Finch, Glenn Maxwell, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Marcus Stoinis, Tim Paine (wk), Nathan Coulter-Nile, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa, Jason Behrendorff

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TOSS: Australia win the toss and Warner decides to bowl in the must-win game. India are playing with an unchanged XI from the last game.

6:25 p.m. Five minutes away from the toss. Rain and overcast conditions are no longer a surprise in this series, and it has followed the two teams to Guwahati. But rain has stopped and the news is that the match will start on time.

6:15 p.m. It's been seven years since international cricket was last played in Guwahati during New Zealand's tour of India. So it's a big day for the fans here.

New Delhi: After a stunning nine-wicket victory in a rain-marred first T20I encounter in Ranchi, Team India will be aiming to wrap up the three-match series in their favour when they face a hapless Australian side for the second match, Barsapara Stadium in Guwahati, today. (IND vs AUS, 2nd T20I: Match Preview)

The Men in Blue have so far been a dominant force in Australia's limited-overs campaign in India, this year. Having crumbled down Steve Smith's men 4-1 in the five-match ODI series, the hosts extended their domination in the shortest format of the game with a ravishing victory at JSCA Stadium on Sunday.

Virat Kohli and his army will thus be looking at a second victory in the T20I series in a bid to stand closer to the World No.1 ranking in T20Is. A win tonight will take them ahead of England and West Indies to rank three on the ICC T20I Rankings chart.

While nothing stands in favour of the Aussies, but the stand-in skipper is confident that the tourists can stun the home side with a win in the second T20I match. "We have just got to keep going out there and keep backing ourselves 100 per cent. We have just got to keep playing the game that we know and that's the brand of cricket that we bring to the table," said David Warner told reporters in a pre-match presser in Guwahati.