Leg spinner Adam Zampa took 4-45 arsenic Australia downed India by 21 runs successful the series-deciding one-day international to assertion the No.1 spot successful the ICC's ODI rankings, portion prima batter Suryakumar Yadav made past for each the incorrect reasons.
Mitchell Marsh's 47 and Alex Carey's 38 carried Australia to a people of 269. In reply, India was bowled retired for 248 runs successful the 50th over, with Virat Kohli's half-century going successful vain.
The visitors won the bid 2-1 aft dropping the archetypal match. Marsh was named subordinate of the bid for scoring 194 runs successful 3 innings.
"It is conscionable earthy aggression erstwhile I americium batting. I person thoroughly enjoyed it," Marsh said, "I was truly gladsome to travel successful and perform, arsenic I americium coming disconnected an extended break."
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After winning the flip and opting to bat, Australia got disconnected to a bully commencement with Marsh and Travis Head (33) putting connected 68 runs disconnected 65 balls.
Indian pacers Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj struggled with the caller ball, but Hardik Pandya took 3-44 successful 8 overs to bring India backmost into the game.
First, Pandya had Head caught astatine quadrate limb and 3 balls aboriginal Steve Smith was caught down for duck. Australia was down to 3-85 erstwhile Pandya besides trapped Marsh lbw.
Wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav picked up 3-56, dismissing some David Warner (23) and Marnus Labuschagne (28) arsenic Australia was reduced to 5-138 successful 28.1 overs.
Warner, who came successful astatine fig four, added 40 runs with Labuschagne for the 4th wicket earlier the duo fell successful the abstraction of 4 overs.
Carey held the little bid unneurotic arsenic helium stitched a 58-run concern with Marcus Stoinis (25). While the second was retired caught disconnected Axar Patel (2-57) successful the 37th over, Yadav bowled Carey to marque it 7-203 successful the 39th.
Australia's process wagged hard capable to adhd 66 runs for the last 3 wickets, which proved vital.
Sean Abbott scored 26 disconnected 23 balls, with Ashton Agar scoring 17. Mitchell Starc and Zampa added 10 runs each to propulsion Australia to a challenging total.
India's pursuit began connected a affirmative enactment with openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill adding 65 runs disconnected 55 balls.
But the duo fell wrong a abstraction of 19 balls to permission India astatine 2-77. Sharma was caught disconnected Abbott aft scoring 30 disconnected 17 balls, portion Zampa picked his archetypal of the night, trapping Gill lbw for 37 disconnected 49 balls.
Kohli spearheaded the pursuit thereafter scoring a sedate 54 disconnected 72 balls, including 2 fours and a six. He added 69 runs for the 3rd wicket with Lockesh Rahul (32), earlier the second holed retired disconnected Zampa, who has his champion figures connected Indian soil.
India went from 3-146 to 4-151, arsenic Patel (2) was run-out aft a mix-up with Kohli, who had reached his 64th ODI half-century disconnected 61 balls.
He added 34 runs with Pandya but the turning constituent came successful the 36th implicit erstwhile Kohli was caught astatine agelong off.
Suryakumar Yadav's horrendous tally continued arsenic helium fell for a first-ball duck for the 3rd clip successful the series. Agar bowled him to trim India to 6-185 and plaything the lucifer successful Australia's favor. He's the archetypal subordinate successful past to marque 3 consecutive aureate ducks successful a series.
Zampa returned to disregard Pandya, who scored 40 disconnected 40 balls, and Ravindra Jadeja (18) arsenic India mislaid its archetypal bilateral location ODI bid since 2019.
The limb spinner was named subordinate of the match.
"I person had immoderate occurrence successful India," Zampa said. "It is simply a pugnacious spot to travel and ever a immense situation to play here. I don't deliberation I merit this tonight, kudos to the guys who bowled earlier me. We had spot successful our process and successful our crippled plan."
Australia was besides the past squad to triumph an ODI bid here, and successful this duration, India had won 7 consecutive bilateral contests astatine home.
India had won the archetypal ODI by 5 wickets, and Australia had bounced backmost with a 10-wicket win.
"I don't deliberation it was excessively galore runs," said Sharma, the Indian skipper. "The wicket was challenging successful the 2nd innings but we didn't bat good enough. We failed to enactment up partnerships today. We volition play a World Cup successful these conditions successful six months' clip and we request to improve."
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