Spinners, Rana, Rohit and Kohli leads to India 9-wicket win

Wrist Spinners, Harshit Rana’s career-best four-wicket haul set the stage before Vintage Rohit Sharma’s magnificent unbeaten 121 and Virat Kohli’s unbeaten half-century leads to India consolation win against Australia by comfortable 9-wickets and India avoid a series whitewash in the one-sided game during the third and final One-day international.

Virat Kohli congratulates centurion Rohit Sharma © Cricket Australia/Getty Images

Catch the Cricket highlights of the 3rd ODI match between Australia and India, played on October 25, 2025, at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney. This match was part of India's tour of Australia, a 3-match One-day international series where India beat Australia by 9-wickets.

Match Highlights

India secured a comfortable 9-wicket win over Australia in the third ODI and avoid the series clean sweep in the three-match series.

Match Stats :
India’s successful chase of 237 was their sixth lowest against Australia on Australian soil in One-Day Internationals (ODIs). Australia’s total of 236 was their 11th lowest completed innings score against India at home in ODIs and their second lowest total against India at Sydney, after 208 in 1992. Australia lost their last seven wickets for just 53 runs, marking their sixth worst last seven-wicket collapse against India in ODIs and their second worst such collapse against India in Australia. They fell from 183 for 3 to 236 all out. Their previous worst collapse of this kind was seven wickets for 25 runs against India at WACA during the 1991-92 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. Harshit Rana’s 4 for 39 was the second-best bowling figure by an Indian against Australia at Sydney in ODIs, behind Javagal Srinath’s 4 for 30 in 2000. It is also the third best bowling performance by an Indian bowler at Sydney in ODIs. Rohit Sharma equaled the joint-most centuries by any batsman against Australia in ODIs, with nine, matching Sachin Tendulkar. This is Rohit Sharma’s ninth century against Australia in ODIs, making it the joint second most hundreds scored by any batsman against a single opponent in ODIs, alongside Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar. Virat Kohli became the second highest run-scorer in ODIs with 14,255 runs, trailing only Sachin Tendulkar’s 18,426. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli recorded their 19th century partnership in ODIs, the third most 100-plus partnerships by a pair, behind Sachin Tendulkar–Sourav Ganguly with 26 and Tillakaratne Dilshan–Kumar Sangakkara with 20. Their unbeaten 168-run partnership was the seventh highest second-wicket stand for India against Australia in ODIs.

Match Stats :

India’s successful chase of 237 was their sixth lowest against Australia on Australian soil in One-Day Internationals (ODIs).
Australia’s total of 236 was their 11th lowest completed innings score against India at home in ODIs and their second lowest total against India at Sydney, after 208 in 1992.
Australia lost their last seven wickets for just 53 runs, marking their sixth worst last seven-wicket collapse against India in ODIs and their second worst such collapse against India in Australia. They fell from 183 for 3 to 236 all out. Their previous worst collapse of this kind was seven wickets for 25 runs against India at WACA during the 1991-92 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup.
Harshit Rana’s 4 for 39 was the second-best bowling figure by an Indian against Australia at Sydney in ODIs, behind Javagal Srinath’s 4 for 30 in 2000. It is also the third best bowling performance by an Indian bowler at Sydney in ODIs.
Rohit Sharma equaled the joint-most centuries by any batsman against Australia in ODIs, with nine, matching Sachin Tendulkar. This is Rohit Sharma’s ninth century against Australia in ODIs, making it the joint second most hundreds scored by any batsman against a single opponent in ODIs, alongside Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar.
Virat Kohli became the second highest run-scorer in ODIs with 14,255 runs, trailing only Sachin Tendulkar’s 18,426.
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli recorded their 19th century partnership in ODIs, the third most 100-plus partnerships by a pair, behind Sachin Tendulkar–Sourav Ganguly with 26 and Tillakaratne Dilshan–Kumar Sangakkara with 20.
Their unbeaten 168-run partnership was the seventh highest second-wicket stand for India against Australia in ODIs.

Australia Innings:

Australia posted 236 for all out in 46.4 overs with Matt Renshaw was the top-scorer - who made 56 off 58 balls contained two-fours, Mitchell Marsh contributed 41 off 50 balls featuring 4 fours and a six, Matthew Short scored 30 off 41 balls including 2 fours.

Travis Head blasted 29 off 25 balls featuring six fours with a strike rate of 116, Alex Carey added 24 off 37 balls with a boundary, Cooper Connolly cracked 23 off 34 balls with 2 fours, and Nathan Ellis added 16 off 19 balls with 3 fours.

India Bowling:

For India, Harshit Rana was the best bowler for India - who finished a career-best 4 wickets for 39 runs in 8.4 overs, Washington Sundar capturing 2 wickets, while Axar Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav and Prasidh Krishna each claimed one wicket.

India Innings:

India chased down the target of 237 for 1 in 38.3 overs with Rohit Sharma was the top-scorer with a unbeaten 121 off 125 balls - his 33rd ODI century and ninth against Australia - featuring 13 fours and 3 sixes.

Virat Kohli remained a unbeaten 74 off 81 balls included 7 fours and Shubman Gill contributed 24 off 26 balls including 2 fours and a six.

Australia Bowling:

For Australia, Josh Hazlewood was the best bowler for Australia - who picked up 1 wicket for 23 runs in 6 overs including a maiden.

Player of the match and series:

Rohit Sharma was named Player of the Match for his match-winning magnificent unbeaten 121 runs off 125 balls - which included 13 fours and 3 sixes.

He also earned Player of the series for his contribution of 202 runs with an average of 101 in the three-match ODI series.

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