The right-hand batter has also played 73 T20Is in which he has scored 989 runs at an average of 25.35. Two half-centuries have been scored by Pandya in the shortest format, with the best score of 71*. He has also taken 54 wickets in the format
With this win in Australian conditions, India's T20 WC preparations have got a big boost. Though batting was underwhelming to an extent, bowlers performed brilliantly to calm down some talks about side's recent issues with the ball
It was a sort of underwhelming outing for India with the bat as they kept losing big players at regular intervals. Some players did get starts but they could not capitalise
India's Suryakumar Yadav moved considerably closer to Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan, the number one ranked T20I batter in the world, intensifying the competition.