India vs Western Australia Warm Up Match: India were comprehensively beaten by 36 runs as the Indian batting, barring stand-in skipper KL Rahul 74 (55), collapsed when they played Western Australia Cricket Association XI in the second practice match in Perth on Thursday. Batting first Western Australia put up what seemed like a chaseable total of 168 runs, but the Indian batting capitulated — apart from Rahul, the 10 other batsmen just managed to score 58 runs between them.

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Here is how the second India vs Western Australia cricket match unfolded:

India vs Western Australia warm-up match teams: Under skipper KL Rahul, India bowled first. The playing 11 from the India vs Western Australia XI squads looked like:
Western Australia XI: Josh Philippe (Wk), D Arcy Short, Nick Hobson, Cameron Bancroft, Ashton Turner (C), Jason Behrendorff, Sam Fanning, Matthew Kelly, Hamish McKenzie, David Moody, Andrew Tye, Lance Morris
India: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul (C), Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik (Wk), Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh

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India vs Western Australia 2nd warm up match: India innings

In reply, India began their chase poorly. Rishabh Pant was back in the pavilion at a personal score of 9 runs in the fifth over.
India were 29/1 at the end of 5 overs.

India vs Western Australia 2nd warm up match: India Innings half-way mark

After 10 overs, India were at 60/3, with KL Rahul at the crease on 22. India lost the wicket of Hardik Pandya, who scored 17 runs off 9 balls.

Also Read: Western Australia XI vs India: As it Happened in 1st Warm-Up Match at Perth

In the first warm up match on Monday, Suryakumar Yadav picked where he left against South Africa at home and scored a blistering knock of 52 runs to help India set a target of 159 runs for Western Australia XI. In return, the hosts were bundled out for 145 runs as Arshdeep Singh scalped 3 wickets and Yuzvendra Chahal and Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 wickets each. 

T20 World Cup 2022 warm up matches: India vs Australia and India vs New Zealand up next

After this, India will travel to Brisbane for two official T20 WC 2022 warm-up games against Australia and New Zealand, before kicking off T20 World Cup 2022 campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan on October 23.