(CROWD HUBBUB, CAR HORNS BEEP)
Maxwell! Maxwell! Maxwell!
JUSTIN LANGER: It's so difficult to win in India because the conditions are so foreign to us.
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
HARSHA BHOGLE: The roar that comes when you play and miss
always reminds you that you're in trouble.
(CHEERING, SHOUTING)
COMMENTATOR: New batsman in, Turner. His second one-day international.
GIDEON HAIGH: In India, it's just a place where bizarre things happen.
(SHOUTS)
Our theme at the start is to make Australians proud of us again.
Now all we gotta do is start playing good cricket on the field as well.
We haven't played our best cricket over the last...what, how long...
Finchy? Maxie? Two years?
- Two years at least, yeah. - Couple of years, I reckon.
Our numbers would back that up.
So, we can go, "Oh, yeah, we've gotta talk about the negative shit."
Well, it's actually true. I think we've won three of our last 23 one-day games for Australia.
So, OK, and that puts you under pressure?
Great. Use it.
We'll lap it up and get on with what's important of getting the job done.
OK?
GIDEON HAIGH: One-day cricket offers you both teams batting and bowling on the same day,
and a result.
It is a game that accents the spectator.
TONY GREIG: Lillee again.
Oh, he's bowled him!
Well, that was the old three-card trick by Dennis Lillee.
That's hit. Ooh, it's high! It's miles in the air!
Hughes is coming around. And so...
- Oh, it's a wonderful catch! - (CROWD ROARS)
What a catch! Oh! Unbelievable, Steven Waugh!
BILL LAWRY: It's down the ground! It's four! It's victory for Australia!
It's Michael Bevan's evening at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
I grew up in the backyard wanting to be Mark Waugh and Dean Jones and these guys
and just playing cricket for Australia.
It was always just a dream. So captaining never really...come into it.
LANGER: One of the things we did this year was we got all the players to vote
on who they thought should be the one-day captain of Australia.
It's never been done before.
And unanimously, Aaron Finch was voted, in white-ball cricket, as the captain.
You know, we often talk about the relationship with the captain and the coach.
I had an instant sort of relation with Tim Paine in the Test side.
We just sort of had that rapport. We had history together.
Whereas Finchy and I took a bit longer to... to jell, really.
We didn't know each other and we had to learn to trust each other and respect each other.
It's a huge honour, it's a huge privilege to captain Australia
and it's something that...I certainly haven't taken anything like that for granted.
It's...it's...
I can't really get my head around leading Australia to a World Cup, to be honest.
MARCUS STOINIS: He's got sort of the front that I think every cricketer needs to have
when you get on the field -
that unwavering, sort of, belief in yourself.
He's got a really, sort of, soft side to him, friendship side, loyal side.
He's really had the opportunity to show those parts of his character, I think,
now that he's been a leader.
FINCH: We all remember our debuts. Nothing better.
When someone comes into the side, the excitement, the energy that they bring,
there's nothing better.
So let's make it a special one for Dorf.
SHANE WARNE: Welcome to the beautiful Sydney Cricket Ground.
The sun's shining. The pitch looks good.
ADAM GILCHRIST: Australia only tasted victory twice in 2018 in this format.
Little bit of pressure on the Aussies' openers here.
ANNOUNCER: Opening the batting for Australia is the captain, Aaron Finch, and Alex Carey.
Well, the captain is kind of the embodiment and the personification of the side.
And in a team that's struggling like Australia was,
there's nowhere to hide.
COMMENTATOR: Bowled him! Off stump! Perfect execution from Kumar.
And India draw first blood.
Now, that's a big wicket, Aaron Finch.
HAIGH: Finch, when he does do what he's good at,
there's almost no-one in the world to touch him.
So, last ball, Australia, to close out a rare victory.
Ooh, that's hit high!
(CROWD CHEERS)
That's a good catch from Glenn Maxwell.
Well done to Australia. They win by 34 runs.
LANGER: What happens - you play Test cricket, get out a few times, everyone's an expert.
You know, "You gotta do this, you gotta do that," and then everyone's in his ear.
COMMENTATOR: It's a horrible position to be in, isn't it? The hard...
It seems the more you miss out on those big totals,
the harder you train, the more balls you hit, the more you analyse it,
and it seems to get worse and worse.
He was starting to get nervous about, "What if I get dropped again?
"I've been dropped as captain before."
Then your mind starts spiralling into the worst things that could happen.
COMMENTATOR: Oh! Bowled him! Through the gate again.
It's a similar story for Aaron Finch.
So, there's a glaring issue there for the Australian captain. He goes.
The pressure is building from outside.
The pressure is definitely building for him internally, no doubt.
Six off fucking 19!
At least fucking get out first ball and stop wasting everyone's fucking time!
Fuck's sake!
COMMENTATOR: Bang! He's gone hard! He's got enough of this! It's a six!
(CROWD CHEERS)
And the Indians fight their way back into the series.
Yeah, the series is tied one-all as we go to Melbourne.
FINCH: There's things that you're seeing within the...in the game
that...that you...you feel like you have to address,
but then you're conscious because you're like,
"Well, I'm not doing my job myself, so how can I....
"..how am I in a position to be able to tell other people how to do their job...
"..if I'm not doing my own right?"
LANGER: Any observations from yesterday?
I've got to get some runs, no doubt.
And then that'll change the whole dynamic again.
'Cause then we can... Then Usi's push-back. Then Shaun's push-back. Pete, Stoin, Maxie.
That your jobs become a bit easier and a bit clearer
and you can play a little bit more freely.
If you could give Finchy one bit of advice, what would it be?
Elephant in the room. What would you say?
What would you say to him? Maxie?
MAXWELL: He'll be fine.
He was our best batter last year for over 12 months in all formats.
- All cricket. - Yeah.
I agree. What do you reckon, Scary?
Don't know what's going on in your head, but...let it go. Just let go. Fuckin' whack 'em.
FINCH: I'll tell you what it i... All it's been is...
I've been worried to get out.
I've been searching for a score that much
that you probably forget to watch the ball that bit harder
and you forget get your process.
You're constantly thinking - well, I'm constantly thinking -
"Fuck, I need some runs to, one, get the pressure off the squad at the top of the order.
"One, to get the pressure off me."
LANGER: The reason we're saying this is you're the captain of Australia for a reason.
The best ODI player in the world, for one-day, for a reason.
That's what you're doing it for.
Be Finchy, mate. You don't have to be...
You don't have to be the captain. You don't have to be anything else. Just be Finchy.
REPORTER: How, sort of, frustrated, I guess, are you with your own form at the moment?
- Yeah, a little bit frustrated. - Do you need to tinker with things?
Bat a bit longer. That'd be...that'd be the number one thing.
I think when you're...when you're searching for runs, you can be...
..you can be searching for the right recipe,
and I think it's always... it's always a fine balance.
There was times I'd wake up in the middle of the night
thinking about getting out,
thinking, "I'm facing Buma again tomorrow.
"He's getting me out for fun."
Wake up in a cold sweat going,
"Bhuvneshwar, he's got me out a lot with the ball moving back in."
COMMENTATOR: Aaron Finch. He's fighting for his cricketing life out there at the moment.
- Edge! Falls short, I think. - Ohh! Goodness me.
Everything gets clouded and you doubt everything that you do
when you're searching for... searching for a way to get back to form.
Ooh! A thick edge. It'll get four for Finch.
Flirting with danger.
I was doubting everything that I was doing.
That's close in front. Given!
(CROWD CHEERS)
Well, that upset the rhythm of Aaron Finch.
The lbw. He's been caught on the crease again.
At the start, it was, "I'm in a bit of a lean patch. It'll come good,"
and then after a while, when it doesn't, I genuinely thought that
I could be left out of the World Cup as the captain of the side.
Just one run to win here for a clean sweep of the summer for India.
(CROWD ROARS)
India win by seven wickets to add the one-day championship to the Test championship.
It's a tour to remember.
USMAN KHAWAJA: He's a good batsman, just going through a tough trot,
which we've all been through,
JL's been through as many as anyone.
We were just hoping, as the captain, that he starts scoring runs,
'cause it's big for himself to have that confidence.
- Hey, guys. Thanks. - See ya.
- See you, lads. - Bye.
FINCH: The last six weeks has been really difficult personally, in terms of...
..in terms of my own personal form.
I probably didn't take...
..take on how...how much it takes out of you
playing Test cricket and then backing it up for an ODI series.
It was just an emotional roller-coaster.
Come here!
(WOMAN CHUCKLES)
Come on. Come on.
(CRICKET PLAYS ON TV)
WOMAN: You were in the rooms for a bit.
Yeah, I was just talking to JL for...for ages.
WOMAN: Yeah.
- It was good. Good chat. - Oh, good.
- Just not getting any fucking runs. - Mmm.
(SIGHS)
(INDIAN MUSIC)
(SIREN WAILS)
MAN: Thanks, everyone. Welcome to India. It's always a challenge here.
If you see anything suspicious, come and let us know.
In and around the hotel, or at the ground, or in the bus when we're travelling to and fro,
there's covert and uniformed police all around the place.
So, as you know, the Indian fans want to come into the hotel,
they'll...they'll actually book a room and have 10 people in there.
So, just be aware of that.
If you see someone that's not part of the group, let us know,
'cause we've got exclusive use of the floor.
(CROWD HUBBUB)
Yeah. Go.
STOINIS: Oh, I love playing in India. I love the culture - its unmatched energy.
It heightens all your senses.
I told them that whatever option, we are going ahead. We are not turning.
Let's do it.
Can you get the door?
(DRIVER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
If you can harness all that excitement, that energy,
there's no way you can rock up there and not be motivated to play.
LANGER: People always ask me, "Do you love India?"
It's like, yeah, I love India...
..for the first few weeks.
And then it gets a bit claustrophobic, to be honest,
because Indians love cricket so much...
..that the only sanctuary you have
is in your change room or in your bedroom.
(CROWD CHEERS)
(CHEERING, WHOOPING)
NATHAN COULTER-NILE: As fans, they just want to see good cricket.
In India, if you doing well, they love you - If you're not, they don't want to know you.
Whoo! Maxwell! Maxwell! Maxwell!
MAXWELL: It's not the easiest thing to deal with,
because as much as you want to give everyone some of your time...
..there's 10 people waiting for a photo,
and then once you get a photo, there's another 10 people that arrive.
So you're always going to disappoint someone.
LANGER: And even in your hotel bedroom, it's not uncommon
for someone to knock on the door and almost fake room service -
"Oh, do you mind if I have a selfie? Selfie? Photo?"
It is, like, literally relentless.
(BIRDS CHIRP)
Everywhere you go in India, you're near a cricket match.
All you need is a bat and a ball.
There's very few things that not just unite India,
but unite cultures, unite societies,
across income categories, across cultures, across geographies too.
So, very, very important.
If India's playing cricket, then very few other things matter.
Actually, just wait for five minutes.
The bomb squad is just checking first.
(SIREN WAILS)
LANGER: It's so difficult to win in India because the conditions are so foreign to us.
We get to India and it's spinning and the balls don't bounce much. It's like...
Yeah, India's tough. (CHUCKLES)
KHAWAJA: And it's weird, we haven't been in India for a long time,
but we were so close in the one-day series in Australia.
I still thought we had more in us,
and I thought, if we can start just clicking -
especially the batting, 'cause I thought the bowling was outstanding during that series -
that we had a chance in India.
STOINIS: India is the most talented team in the world. Hands down.
The players not playing are way more talented than me.
BHOGLE: It's not easy to tour any country when you're out of form,
but even more so in India.
And when you come to India, you play all of India.
(CROWD CHEERS)
BHOGLE: (COMMENTATES) Here we go. The crowd excited.
There's so many people around. The crowds are much closer to you.
It can get intimidating not to be scoring runs,
because the roar that comes when you play and miss
always reminds you that you're in trouble.
(CROWD ROARS)
The Australian captain gone for a duck, and it's 0/1.
HAIGH: As an opening-batsman captain,
Finch bears particular responsibility as a kind of a tone-setter for the innings.
The early loss of a captain who opens the batting knocks the stuffing out of a side.
MAN: Catch!
COMMENTATOR: Well, he gets a wicket.
Marcus Stoinis is gone for 37.
Good hit. What a wonderful catch.
Absolutely outstanding.
Usman Khawaja, exactly 50.
Oh, he's gone. Beautifully done.
Absolutely magnificent bowling. Peter Handscomb gone for 19.
That's been the story of today - batsmen getting in but not getting a big score.
(CROWD ROARS)
India win by six wickets.
MAN: When you've got to your 20, just hold it down that one side.
The leg that's on the bottom, straighten it out.
Four or five breaths.
LANGER: In January, Belinda Clark sent me this really nice article.
You know, we're always exchanging things, always learning.
And it was about 'the year of' -
everyone sets new year's resolutions, but no-one keeps them.
And I wrote, "This is gonna be the year of letting go."
So I committed to it
and I sort of let go of stuff that I shouldn't be so stressed about.
I do think he's...he's mellowed out a fair bit, even in the last year.
MAN: Bring your shoulderblades back...
KHAWAJA: I think that's what's good about India. There's not a lot of external noise.
Because they're a predominately Hindi-speaking nation,
so a lot of the stuff just... we don't know about it.
PETER HANDSCOMB: Yeah, I think relaxed is a good word for it.
During that Indian series, he really put the onus back on the players
and said, "Righto, you know, you guys run... basically run it. Run training."
And the boys really took to that.
LANGER: The question now is what we're doing next.
So, what do you want to do today?
What do you want to do? You want to stay back here?
Do you want to have a session off?
Do you want to get down, just hit some balls? What do you want to do?
And what was most interesting -
when we said, "OK, it's your responsibility," they actually trained harder.
(CHUCKLES) They seemed to work harder, because they weren't being told what to do.
HANDSCOMB: Yeah, I mean, what I do the day before a game
is different to what Usman Khawaja does.
So, it's just about, you know, coming up as a player,
you need to find what's best for you,
and hopefully by the time you make it to the international level,
you've figured that out, 'cause you're obviously doing something right to get there.
LANGER: We used to have Bobby Simpson and Errol Alcott. That's all we had.
We had to go to work in between playing Shield games.
So, if you want to become good, you gotta work it out.
Call it what you like,
but it's more helping us to develop more self-resilient and self-reliant players,
'cause in the middle, that's what you are.
Some of that stuff today, Stoin, was awesome, mate. That was gold.
Some of your stuff was gold. Absolutely brilliant.
You're hitting the ball, there's no fielder. It's just a perfect cricket shot...
There's a real positive energy among the boys,
and from the coaches, there was... there was a lot of positive talk.
Because India is such a place
where you don't have the opportunity to get out too often,
everyone's together the whole time and it's brilliant.
That's what I think builds cultures.
- I'm gonna watch Mighty Ducks 2. - LANGER: That's shithouse.
PAT CUMMINS: I remember when I first started touring, I was 17 or 18
and I thought, "How good's this?" you know?
"We're going to South Africa for a month, six weeks, and, oh, we're going to India."
I think it's different for everyone, but I see how hard it can be for the families.
MARSH: Austin, are you gonna show me your new toy?
CUMMINS: The best thing that can happen is have a good group of people around you.
Hey, Austin!
The team we had over in India this time was just so close.
We're all pretty good mates. Everyone got on well.
LANGER: They eat breakfast together. They eat lunch together. They eat dinner together.
They watch footy together or they watch movies together, or... And they're just together.
DIMASI: Attention, please! Oh, here we go.
Great training session tonight, boys.
- MAN: Thanks, Franco. - Very impressed.
Um...today, we celebrate Sri's 43rd birthday.
- Hip-hip! - ALL: Hooray!
- Hip-hip! - Hooray! (ALL LAUGH)
MAN: Ohh, no!
(LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE)
LANGER: And I've said forever,
it's the camaraderie within the group which is like the glue,
particularly when under pressure.
I see teams that don't get along at all, but they win games.
Camaraderie is great,
but at the end of the day, we've still got to play some really good cricket.
It's a skill-based game and you win games on skill.
HAIGH: India has specialised in producing very, very great batsmen.
At the moment, they have one great batsman in that ODI side, and that's Kohli.
(CROWD CHANTS)
LANGER: When he's in India... (CHUCKLES)
..he has literally got 1.5 billion people behind him.
CUMMINS: It's a weird thing that you don't get in cricket too much -
bowling to him knowing you've got a billion people who...
..it'll make their week or they could end up crying if he gets out.
COMMENTATOR: Ohh! That is a beauty!
Oh, that is a gorgeous shot!
The crowd are absolutely going wild here.
Another beautiful shot from the Indian captain.
It's a poor delivery, and treated appropriately.
That's a tremendous shot!
You're bowling to a class player. Here's another one.
What a shot!
Stop what you're doing - Virat Kohli's on 99.
Kohli slashes! Slashes for four, for 100!
Century number 40.
So, India finishing on 250. Target for Australia - 251.
So, here we go. The final over of the match. 11 to get.
- (CROWD ROARS) - A big appeal for leg before! Given!
India have managed to somehow win this game.
STOINIS: Everything had been so tough for so long,
everyone had sort of thought we were gonna be shit, really,
that...it brought everyone together.
In Australia during the summer, we'd lose and we were low,
but I remember it not being anywhere near as bad as it has been.
HANDSCOMB: When we lost the second ODI,
we were actually in a really, really strong position to win that and failed to do so,
but I think that gave the squad a lot of confidence,
saying that, you know, "We're doing something right."
OK, we need to dig deep now. We're that close.
We've been saying we're that close, OK?
Just gotta find something a little bit deeper to get over the line.
Everyone's got an area we can get better at.
Don't miss the opportunity to watch how Kohli plays, OK?
To watch how the best player, probably, of your era goes about his business.
COULTER-NILE: I remember the build-up to the third game and nothing changed.
Which I can say is very rare in, you know, that sort of situation -
when you go to India, World Cup coming up,
and there was no...no hoo-ha, no, uh... no panic stations, no red button hits.
Are you going to do some bowling now?
I don't want to shock you, but Winx won again.
- Did it? - Yeah.
RADIO PRESENTER: Yeah, on a Wednesday, we catch up
with the former Australian cricket captain Ian Chappell, who's on the line.
- Morning, Chappelli. - IAN CHAPPELL: G'day, Mike.
Australia, this morning, involved in another ODI against India,
but the home side is up 2-0 in the series.
There's a few people suggesting that time's coming to an end for Aaron Finch.
CHAPPELL: Yeah, it's a major concern,
and it could get to the point where you're gonna have to drop your captain
if he doesn't get some runs.
LANGER: I know there's pressure on every one of us every time we play.
Tough conditions, India.
Players... You know, the World Cup squad, and their...
You know, players might be thinking about their spots in the team and wondering...
First point - best way to play any game for Australia
is to put all your attention on winning the game for Australia, rather than...
If you bring it to yourself, it makes it bloody hard, right?
If you put your attention into winning the game, then you'll do better and we'll do it better,
and then the selection looks after itself.
So, I get...
LANGER: All of a sudden, there's starting to be a bit of noise developing
on, "What happens if Finchy doesn't come good?"
FINCH: There was a conversation had between myself, JL and Trevor Hohns.
"I'm the missing link here, so...
"..do you drop me and...see how we go from here?
"And if I'm not in the best side going forward, that's fine."
And that was a really tough conversation to have,
especially as a...as the captain of the side.
I had to let my guard down at some point to be vulnerable enough
to open up and to admit how bad you are going.
And it was it was actually at that time where I thought, "You know what?
"No, no. Come on, Justin. You've got to take some ownership of this."
Because we can't afford not to have Finchy as the captain.
No-one ever comes to my bedroom, right? It's my private space.
Finchy came to my room and we sat at the table in my room
and, "Right, let's go to work."
I rolled the sleeves back up and we spent time together.
And I got back on the tools and I started coaching Finchy again,
and it was just...oh, I loved every minute of it.
FINCH: I'd always had great support from JL, all the coaches, all the players.
I even got messages from legends of the game - Haydos, Gilly.
- Calm down a little bit. - Yeah.
Yeah, sometimes when the wicket's so slow, you try and force it a bit much and...
It's that last tenth of a second, like...
..that sort of slight response, rather than just...
- Yep. - ..slowing it down.
ADAM ZAMPA: Today I've got the Colombia, Buenos Aires honey.
I'm gonna use 17 grams of coffee.
This is the scale that I bring with me.
The story is I got a tattoo
and the tattoo artist, he told me about these cafes that I should go and try out,
and he said, "You've just got to try filter coffee."
Yeah, now I've fallen in love with it. Like, I just...love making coffee.
My favourite part. The smell.
So, when I pack my suitcase,
coffee stuff - so, kettle, beans, grinder - they go in the middle,
and then if I can fit any clothes around it, then I'll fit some clothes in.
So, I'll put the coffee in first.
Oh! (LAUGHS)
Stoiny.
How good's this?
Start the timer.
The first 30 seconds is called the bloom.
It's important that the water doesn't touch the paper.
This is our routine.
The barista.
This is my ceramic little mug that I bring with me everywhere as well.
JL, he calls me 'the Love Café',
'cause I told him that the most important ingredient is love, which is true.
With Stoin, he knows when to knock on my door, coffee's ready.
You know, we'll talk about the game that morning.
STOINIS: We've seen each other perform well, perform poorly.
We'll go through the game and then we'll switch off... (CLICKS FINGERS)
..and then it's music, talking about the coffee.
That's the Love Café.
- Did I tell you what I did last night? - Yeah.
They are two of the rarest human beings I've ever met in my life. They are rare, mate.
I dunno. It's hard to explain. We just...we love each other.
FINCH: Oh, it's tough to describe. They're...
They're just...
They're just so close. They're a little bit too close at times, aren't they?
Every photo, they're holding hands and...just doing weird shit.
KHAWAJA: It's very different than what the Australian team used to be like 10 years ago.
Cricket used to be a very rigid game. "You've got to do this. You've got to do that."
There's a big push about being yourself and be comfortable in being yourself.
And when I used to be myself, even, like, five, six...
..I used to get hammered 'cause I was being different.
STOINIS: You have to be yourself in this environment,
because if you're pretending to be something that you're not, it's too tiring.
MAN: Who's the other one for?
My boy.
He made it himself. He just wanted me to carry it.
- LANGER: Can I just have a sip? - Yeah.
Try that one. That's my one. It's better.
It's sweet. Like honey.
The biggest test I've learnt as a coach is everybody is different
and you've got to treat everyone different.
But in the end of the day, they're here in the Australian cricket team.
They're not in the Australian fashion team, or they're not in the Australian good bloke team,
or they're not in the Australian best mates team.
They're in the Australian cricket team.
And that's what we always have to remember,
is that you're in the Australian cricket team, so you have to be a match-winner.
LANGER: 2-0 down. This is where the grind kicks in.
This is where we - and individually - have to really step up, OK?
So, these days are the days we see who's ready to dig deep and make a difference. OK?
ANNOUNCER: We are in Ranchi for the third ODI of this Paytm Series.
Tails is the call from Aaron Finch.
Heads it is.
FINCH: Everyone was unbelievably supportive.
It's really touching when...
..when everyone's got your best interest and everyone wants to see you do well.
STOINIS: Sometimes when you get into that dip in form, there's no way out
unless you get brought with your mates
and your mates give you energy and your mates support you.
"Mate, I've seen you dominate this. I can't wait to watch you dominate it again.
"This is your day."
COMMENTATOR: Jasprit Bumrah will take the ball.
Right arm fast. I like that.
Oh, again into the pads! This could be close!
FINCH: I knew that if I just hung in there, if I just hung in long enough and long enough,
that it would change.
Now is the time when I've just got to put it between my teeth.
There's a build-up of pressure. There's gonna be a big shot.
If I get away with it, great. If I don't...
..this could be curtains on my World Cup dream.
And I remember talking to Usi between the over
and he just said, "Just hang in there. Just... It'll come. It'll come. Don't search for it."
Oh, it's a good shot!
(CHUCKLES) That'll be a boundary. That's a powerful hit.
Gee, that was a terrific shot from Aaron Finch. He looks sharp.
You could hear it off his bat, and you went...
There were signs which I hadn't seen for six months before.
I knew he was back.
Both of these two players are looking quite nice today.
The fact that Usi was playing so well...
Good shot. Terrific shot. Bit of innovation.
..probably took a bit of pressure off Finchy and allowed him just to get himself into the game.
Terrific shot, this.
Beautiful shot! Nice flow of the bat and sails into the crowd.
He had little Yadav bowl these little, sort of, round-arm off spinners,
and he took him on.
This is big. Finch looks good.
That is courage right there.
Effortless. Effortless.
It changed everything, 'cause we thought, "Yeah, no, we're not gonna stand for this."
And four as well.
What a magnificent way to bring up the half-century for the Australian captain.
His side acknowledging the fact that he's been under a little bit of pressure
and he's feeling good.
FINCH: And from then on, it was sort of just flipped back into
partnership batting and forgetting about the outcome.
In the gap for four. Gee, that'd make him feel good, Finch.
Superb timing again.
This is good stuff from Australia.
Oh, what a shot. Absolutely smashed down the ground.
He's gone with the turn and he finds the meat of the bat.
That's a terrific strike.
Oh, he's found the gap again.
He's gonna move into the 90s, Aaron Finch.
What an innings this is turning out to be.
I felt as though...that I was ready to overhaul my whole game.
Just everything that I'd tried hadn't really been working technically or anything like that.
It turns out I didn't change anything. I just changed my mindset a bit.
So, Aaron Finch gone for 93 off 99 balls.
LANGER: For us, it's a big piece of the jigsaw.
If our captain's playing well, that's a big part of our success.
Elegant from Glenn Maxwell. He is looking deadly dangerous.
Nicely struck. That's gone like a bullet to the boundary.
Superb shot, that, from Stoinis.
Yes! Century number one for Usman Khawaja in one-ay internationals.
Well, this will test India.
To win the game today, India have to score 314 runs.
And he's in early again, Virat Kohli.
What a shot! What a shot!
Superbly executed there from Virat Kohli.
Oh, shot.
HARSHA BHOGLE: When he goes out to bat chasing, he just knows what that target is.
He finishes games. He doesn't like to leave them for somebody else.
50 for Virat Kohli.
LANGER: He's gonna do it again!
He is gonna do it again. He's gonna...
We're gonna lose another one 'cause of Kohli.
I've never seen batting like it. It breaks your heart.
Oh, that's been absolutely crashed. What a shot!
They're gonna steal an unwinnable game. We're gonna lose another one.
That is incredible!
He's done it. Take a bow. 41st one-day international hundred.
Yeah, what an innings it has been once again from Virat Kohli
as they win this game, they win the series.
Zampa being brought into the attack.
MAXWELL: We knew that we were so close to turning everything around.
All it took was just someone to stand up.
I've never seen myself as the most skilful leg spinner going around.
Performing under pressure is something that has to be my strength.
Adam Zampa. He's a real dark horse, isn't he?
PLAYER: Go again, Adam.
Very good bowling from Zampa.
ZAMPA: He's just the hardest that I've ever had to bowl to.
You know, if you make a mistake, he makes you pay.
Slogged straight up. It's gone very high in the air.
But it sails over him. It sails over Shaun Marsh.
Has he found the gap? He has.
And again, smashing that over through the cow corner region.
Sitting back a little shorter this time by Zampa.
"Alright. OK.
"Um...what do I do here now?" (LAUGHS)
Don't need to reduce...
And he's knocked him over!
What a comeback by Adam Zampa!
Pin-drop silence as Virat Kohli has been knocked over.
ZAMPA: I didn't bowl leg spin until I was about 14 or 15.
I always wanted to be a batsman, actually. (LAUGHS)
When he takes a wicket that he wants, oh, you can see the little guy get passionate,
and I love it, it's so good.
There it is. Australia win this game.
So, with both ball and bat tonight, it was a comprehensive win.
(CHEERING)
The series is still alive.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
FINCH: Thank you.
LANGER: Finchy, mate, I know it's been a long, hard summer for you,
and not only have you made some runs, but you've been brilliant amongst the group as the captain.
Well done, and we all thank you for it.
And that's what really good leadership is.
I sense they are faltering and we're getting stronger.
I honestly think we've got a huge opportunity now.
It's whether we're able to take it or not.
CAREY: Hey, mate. Could we just order five... Four. Four Coronas?
You don't have Corona? Have you got Heineken?
What other ones do you have?
They have Light. Kingfisher Light.
FINCH: That's probably what Maxie should drink, to be fair.
CAREY: Yep, four of those, thanks.
- Thank you. Four. Four, thank you. - MAXWELL: Rightio!
Unbelievable!
He hasn't said this many words all tour.
- CAREY: He got some runs today. (LAUGHS) - He got some runs.
All of a sudden, he's on. Righto.
CAREY: Who dealt that? Maxie, did you?
Maxie, did you do that?
FINCH: Have some of them just to recharge your batteries.
Oh, fuck, that's good.
- (OTHERS LAUGH) - Chocolate biscuit.
Mmm.
Got there, boys.
- Fuck, we're good at this. - That's a win. That's a win.
- We are a great combo, mate. - CAREY: Eight clubs. 240.
(CROWD ROARS)
COMMENTATOR: Welcome to Mohali.
This is the fourth one-day international in this Paytm One-Day Series.
(BAT HITS BALL)
Oh, it's a wonderful shot. Clears the boundary for six.
India 358/9. You'd have to bat really well on any surface to get these.
LANGER: I knew it was a good wicket,
but to be honest, that's a big chase. (CHUCKLES)
HAIGH: The very idea of a team scoring 358 in an ODI,
that's just ridiculous - it's almost not cricket.
BHOGLE: If you'd told me at that point, "Australia are gonna chase 358 down,"
I'd have looked at the scorecard and I said, "Him? Him? No, they can't."
Australia need a partnership. They need a...
Not just a partnership, they need a big partnership to challenge India.
I still thought in the back of my head, "Oh, yeah, we can chase this."
Khawaja advances, and...
I think he's hit the boundary. He has. Nice shot from Khawaja.
Well done, Usi!
HANDSCOMB: Usi and I, you know, we were trying to stay as relaxed as possible.
It's often the team that panics first is the team that loses.
On the up, and a beautiful shot.
He swept away beautifully.
And he's put that ball in the gap for four. It's wonderfully done.
So, they're starting to up that tempo a little bit now, Australia.
It's 134/2.
We were just focusing on taking it as deep as possible,
knowing that the firepower we had to come after us as well was pretty special.
It's such a fickle game, cricket,
but if you have that self-belief, it can really propel you forward.
(CHEERING)
Excellent use of the feet there from Peter Handscomb.
That's the 150-run partnership. 146 deliveries.
Very well played. What a shot.
100 for Peter Handscomb.
Glenn Maxwell. New man at the crease.
Can't waste too much time. He's got to get going straightaway.
I think at points in that Australian innings,
you know, probably, people looked around that Australian dressing-room and said,
"You know, we're actually doing this.
"There's almost no reason for us not to do this."
What a way to get off the mark!
It's a sizzler from the bat of Glenn Maxwell.
Which is where he's gone. There is no fielder there.
Well, it wouldn't have mattered, because it's cleared the boundary.
It's a good over, this. 13 off it.
- (PANT SCREAMS) - Now, how close is that?
The finger's gone up!
Maxwell's gone for 23.
It's 229/4.
MAXWELL: The thing that I suppose I was most frustrated about -
I sort of had that slight thought in my head that when I got out,
I've left the rest of the order with too much to do here.
New batsman in, Turner.
His second one-day international.
With this great elation of playing for Australia was also this naivety.
I didn't have bad memories of facing any of their bowlers before.
You know, at this stage, I've played one one-day game for Australia
and, you know, I don't know that much
about one-day cricket and what international cricket's all about
and I'm trying to learn on the job.
He needs to have a quick look here, but he just needs to find the boundary as well.
I'm thinking, "What can I do to win this game for Australia and keep us alive in this series?"
And there's a part of me that's, you know, trying to act cool,
like I know what I'm doing in an international game of cricket,
where, really, I've got no bloody idea what's going on.
Oh, it's a good shot. It's a fine shot from Turner.
And he finds a gap again. So, Ashton Turner's up and running here.
In India, you can score fast,
and...in India...
..it's just a place where bizarre things happen.
BHOGLE: And he goes straight.
He is looking better with every ball, Ashton Turner.
It was the kind of innings where you said, "Oh, but this can't go on for too long."
Oh! It's another!
Then you say, "Oh, OK. Maybe a little longer."
TURNER: Once I'd hit the ball out of the middle of the bat a couple of times,
it had gone from this unachievable task to, "This is possible."
COMMENTATOR: Another one.
That's got to be four, and that's got to be his 50 as well.
And I was just living in this bubble that was watching the ball really closely
and trying to hit every ball out of the ground.
Oh! That's an unbelievable strike, honestly.
The crowd a little quieter. They're not sure what's gonna happen in this game. It's tight.
MAXWELL: We probably hadn't seen India that sort of rattled.
They hadn't sort of shown those sorts of cracks.
We actually started to find a way to get under their skin.
Oh, this could be out.
Oh, it's dropped again!
This one went straight to mid-off.
Oh! Can't believe that. I just cannot believe it.
That's pressure. That is pressure.
I just felt like everything that they bowled, I knew they were gonna bowl there.
It's a great sense of having no fear.
What's more, it's gone all the way.
This is just incredible from Ashton Turner.
27 needed off 25 deliveries. So, pretty much a run a ball now.
I knew he could do it, but I didn't know he could do it on the big stage like that.
By the end of the innings it was, you know, "I want to be on strike now
"and I want to be facing every ball that I can."
This is my role in the team. I'm batting six and my job is to finish games for Australia.
Oh, shot!
And Ashton Turner goes big again.
This is a complete Cinderella story, this.
It was quite simply the defining innings of that little five-game series.
LANGER: (LAUGHS) It's game over, and I just...
That's a great moment when you're coach - when you know you're gonna win.
The new blood's come in and won what was an almost unwinnable game.
That's a magic moment in Australian cricket.
Oh, they've got it! Ashton Turner has made it.
What an incredible win this is by Australia. A win by four wickets.
As this series comes to a leveller,
what we're seeing tonight from an Australian perspective is very, very special.
MAXWELL: That joy that it brought the whole team and that belief,
that was a big thing going forward, to know that we could chase down a score like that.
You fuckin' beauty!
Fuckin' legend! Whoo!
I've never felt a change room in Australian cricket like I felt that night.
- DIMASI: Hip-hip! - ALL: Hooray!
- Hip-hip! - Hooray!
- Fuckin'...! Hip-hip! - Hooray!
It was just this experience that, um...
..I...I never could have imagined.
That was an extraordinarily exciting... time, that.
Everyone who keeps writing us off, that is an unbelievable moment, that.
Unbelievable.
Where we've come from to where we're wanting to go, that makes everyone proud, and I'm pumped.
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Headmaster.
Thanks for your help today.
- Sorry? - Thanks for your help today.
Oh. (CHUCKLES)
HAIGH: No-one had given Australia a hope in hell of achieving anything on this tour.
But all of a sudden, you know, we looked around and we were 2-all.
Once you've got a little bit of momentum behind you,
you can carry that from one game to the other.
(CROWD CHEERS)
FINCH: All the pressure's on them, boys. All the pressure is on them.
Be ruthless, boys. Come on.
Chance to win a one-day series this year.
These opportunities don't come up every day, OK?
Come on, boys! Come on!
COMMENTATOR: Right, out come the Aussies, defending 272.
Virat Kohli comes in early.
This is just the situation he likes - chasing a big total.
STOINIS: You definitely have days where you doubt yourself or you don't feel great,
but I keep looking back and I'm like, "Hold on.
"How many more times do I need to have done this well,
"or how many more times do I need to reflect on where I've come from
"to start really believing that you can do it?"
Virat Kohli's been absolutely stunning with his performances.
(CROWD CHEERS)
Virat Kohli , the best batsman in the world, up to the occasion.
Stoinis has to adjust here.
The talent will only get you so far,
and then you get into the heat of battle and it's whoever makes the best decisions.
Wafted outside the off stump! Massive wicket, this.
Stoinis gets his man.
And once you get that momentum, I don't know how it works,
I don't know what bloody law it is, it just gets moving,
and you just use that momentum and everyone feeds off each other.
Well, the bat's off the rails. The stumps are shattered.
Oh, it's up in the air! Back bending. Should be taking it.
And so Australia have the breakthrough.
Yeah! You beauty!
And what a way to finish. Marcus Stoinis.
A good performance all round from pretty much every player.
It's been a good series. It's been a tough series.
They've hung in there from 2-0 down.
I've long said that there is no Australian team that stays under for too long,
because it is inherent in their culture to just come up and rebel and fight.
(ALL CHEER)
More than anything else, I think it gave Australia belief.
"When Smith and Warner come back, we'll be a stronger side,
"but even without them, we can win," and I think that was important.
(CHEERING)
CUMMINS: ODI series win in India.
This shit doesn't happen. I mean, this is unbelievable.
The first time Australia had ever gone 0-2 down and won a five-match series,
and our first series win in India in over a decade.
(ALL CHEER)
Skipper - first series win as skipper in 100 ODIs. Well done, mate.
(ALL CHEER)
- And Zorbie, 50 wickets! - (CHEERING)
There's one more that...we weren't sure if he was hanging around for UAE,
but I've just got confirmation.
He's promised. JL's smile is hanging around for UAE!
(ALL CHEER LOUDLY)
LANGER: I said when I became coach,
if in four years' time we get to a point in Australian cricket
where we can beat India in India, I know I've done my job.
And we actually did it after one year.
You don't win series like this without everyone making a contribution, so thank you so much.
It's a great bunch of people and I've loved every minute of this tour.
So, well done. Thanks, everyone. Let's travel safe.
(APPLAUSE)
NARRATOR: Next on The Test...
To me, mateship is when you cross that line, you're playing for each other.
The World Cup is obviously the pinnacle of one-day cricket.
"Phwoar! He's coming back into our team? Right, we'll take him."
(CROWD JEERS)
Cheat! Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!
If you're scared about getting out, fuck that. You've got to be thinking about getting runs.
- Yeah! - COMMENTATOR: That means the world to him.
- Oh, he's bowled him! - Yeah!