IND vs AUS: Mitchell Starc bowls his most-expensive over in T20Is as Rohit Sharma hits 29 runs

India captain Rohit Sharma lost his opening partner Virat Kohli in the first over of their final Super 8 match of T20 World Cup 2024 against old foes Australia on Monday (June 24) at Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia.

Kohli was dismissed for a five-ball duck, his second of the tournament, while trying to hit Aussie pacer Josh Hazelwood over deep midwicket and was caught by Tim David. India lost their first wicket with just 6 runs on the board.

IND vs AUS Mitchell Starc bowls his most-expensive over in T20Is as Rohit Sharma hits 29 runs

The scoreboard read 6/1 at the end of two overs and the Men in Blue found themselves on the backfoot early on after being put in to bat first.

However, instead of going into the shelling, the right-handed batter from Mumbai took it upon himself to up the ante against Australia in the very next over bowled by senior left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc.

Bowling his second over, Starc was hammered for 29 runs and with that Rohit just made Kohli's dismissal unimpactful. The Hitman first hit back-to-back sixes over the deep point region off Starc. The third ball was hit over for a boundary over long-on.

On the fourth delivery bowled by Starc, Rohit pulled over deep mid-wicket for the third maximum of the over. It was a 98-meter-long monstrous shot by the Hitman.

Starc came back to bowl a dot ball on the fifth delivery of the over but conceded a wide ball on the next to allow the opposition batter to torment him. The final ball that was over was a mistimed shot as Rohit attempted a pull but the sheer power that the ball sailed over the fine-leg region to give the batter half-a-dozen runs.

With that, Rohit smashed 29 runs from that over and it was the most expensive over from Starc - the most expensive cricketer in the IPL history - in his T20I career.