11 Oct 2017

Window smashed on Australian team bus

10:37 am on 11 October 2017

A rock has shattered a window on the Australian cricket team's bus after their T20 victory over India in Guwahati.

Australian team bus has window smashed by rock.

Australian team bus has window smashed by rock. Photo: PHOTOSPORT

No one was injured in the incident which happened as the team was returning to their hotel from the Barsapara Stadium.

The rock left a large hole in a window towards the back of the bus. The seat next to the window was unoccupied at the time.

Australia opener Aaron Finch tweeted a picture of the broken window.

"Pretty scary having a rock thrown through the team bus window on the way back to the hotel!!" Finch said.

It's the first international match to be played in the north-eastern city of Guwahati for eight years.

It comes a month after a similar incident in Bangladesh where a rock broke a window, prompting security to be beefed up.

In the match Australia's Jason Behrendorff took four wickets for 21 in an inspired spell of fast bowling to set up an eight-wicket win over India in the second match, squaring the three-match series at 1-1.

The touring side, who lost the one-day series 4-1 and the first T20 by nine wickets, reached their target of 119 with 27 balls to spare.

Playing only his second international match, the 27-year-old Behrendorff scythed through India's top order after Australia captain David Warner won the toss and chose to bowl.

The left-arm paceman dismissed opening batsman Rohit Sharma and India captain Virat Kohli in his first over and then took the wickets of Shikhar Dhawan and Manish Pandey to reduce the hosts to 27-4 inside the first five overs.

"It was unbelievable. Bowling four (overs) upfront doesn't happen too often and I was lucky to do it," Behrendorff said during the innings break.

"Bowling upfront and swinging the new ball is my strength and it is an honour to be opening the bowling for your country."

India never recovered from the terrible start and were all out for 118 in their 20 overs. Kedar Jadhav scored 27 and Hardik Pandya made 25 in the only notable contributions with the bat for the hosts.

Leg-spinner Adam Zampa kept the pressure up on the Indian middle order, picking up two for 19 in his four overs.

Australia lost openers Warner and Aaron Finch early in their chase, giving India hope of an unlikely win but Moises Henriques and Travis Head then combined in an unbroken stand of 109 for the third wicket to take them to victory.

Henriques hit four sixes and an identical number of boundaries to remain unbeaten on 62 for his second half century in T20. Head was not out on 48 as Australia completed a convincing victory.

Hyderabad will host the deciding match of the series on Friday.

-AAP/Reuters