Shami picks three wickets to help India bowl out Australia for 264 in CT semi-finals

Australia won the toss and opted to bat first against India, a team that has won all three Group A stage matches of the tournament so far.

Shami troubled Australia by picking up the wicket of Cooper Connolly for a duck.

Travis Head (39 off 33) tried to recover the innings, but Varun Charavarthy, the spinner who singlehandedly destroyed New Zealand, dismissed him in the ninth over to give Australia another jolt.

Skipper Steve Smith recovered the innings by playing a restricted knock of 73 off 96 balls.

Apart from Smith,  Marnus Labuschagne (29 off 36), Josh Inglis (11 off 12) and Alex Carey (61 off 57)  were the other major contributors for Australia.

Indian bowlers continued to pick up wickets at regular intervals to keep the pressure on Australia.

The lower order failed to capitalise the start with Glenn Maxwell (7), Ben Dwarshuis (19), Adam Zampa (7), and Nathan Ellis (10) returning early.

Hardik Pandya (1/40), Varun Chakravarthy (2/49), Ravindra Jadeja (2/40), and Axar Patel (1/43) kept picking wickets for Australia.