Adelaide, Oct. 23 -- Indian skipper Shubman Gill joined the list of five other captains to have lost their first two ODIs in charge of Men in Blue, following a two-wicket loss to Australia in the second ODI at Adelaide Oval on Thursday.

Rohit's 97-ball 73 and Shreyas Iyer's 61 in 77 balls, helped India to a solid 264/9 in 50 overs, giving fans some hope after the underwhelming performances of skipper Gill (9) and Virat Kohli (0). During the run-chase, Matt Short (74 in 78 balls, with four boundaries and two sixes) and Cooper Connolly (61* in 53 balls, with five fours and a six) produced valuable half-centuries that always kept the scoreboard ticking, and Mitchell Owen's cameo of 36 in 23 balls (with two fours and three sixes) killed the ...