NEW DELHI, March 13 -- THE fine start of the series against Australia was lost in the end as India was beaten convincingly by the the visitors in the final match, losing 2-3 of the 5 match series in New Delhi on Wednesday here.
Interestingly no one batted for a big partnership, only opener Rohit Sharma hit a half century among the pack.
Earlier, India staged a decent comeback to restrict Australia to 272 for nine after Usman Khawaja continued with his imperious form by hitting his second hundred of the series.
Khawaja, who had not scored a century before arriving to India for this series, hit an exact 100 off 106 balls and shared two big partnerships at the top of the order.
Australia were placed comfortably at 175 for one in the 33rd o...