Twitter Reactions: Manish Pandey ton propels India to victory

An 81 ball 104 from Manish Pandey saw India salvage some pride to win the 5^th and final ODI. Pandey, playing in only his fourth game struck his maiden ODI ton to ensure an Indian victory by 7 wickets and two deliveries to spare.

Set a stiff target of 331 on a flat Sydney wicket, a strong foundation was laid by the Indian openers with an opening stand of 123. The stage was set for Manish Pandey following the fall of Manish Pandey. Batting at no.4, Pandey began his innings in a controlled yet aggressive manner. After racing to a quick fifty, there was an unfortunate twist in the story. The fall of Rohit Sharma on 99 and extremely tight bowling from the Aussies ensured that the Indians were once again on the backfoot.

However, some inspired batting from Manish Pandey, in particular, saw the Indians make a rapid comeback in the contest. Skipper MS Dhoni eased the pressure with a six off the first ball of the final over. Manish Pandey completed the job, eventually reaching his half century and rightly awarded the Man of the match.

Speaking to former Australian skipper Mark Taylor after the game, Pandey went on to say, “Batting No. 4 is one of the chances I got because Ajju was injured, and I wanted to capitalize, especially on these wickets, with 300 scored in every match. Always nice to have Indian people in the stadium, it’s a big boost to us.”

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@im_manishpandey you beauty. What an innings to win the match for India. #AUSvIND

— Varun Kotian (@kotianvarun) January 23, 2016

@ericfriend5 @im_manishpandey he's a new Youngest in the team. And for him its a big day indeed

— Rachat Gautam ? (@RachatGautam) January 23, 2016

Champion stuff from Manish Pandey…1st ODI hundred and he made it count..Finally a win ✌✌IND vs AUS

— Vaibhav Shukla (@imvaibhav) January 23, 2016

Congratulations Manish Pandey to get first man of the match award and his cricket career

— Nitesh Kumar (Nito) (@NiteshKumarNito) January 23, 2016

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5th ODI 1st ODI Hundreds
Manish pandey & Mitchell Marshall

— yogesh m (@ygs_offl) January 23, 2016

Congratulations ? Manish Pandey match wining innings against aus & 1st 100 in aus..

— MOHIT CHIKHALIKAR (@mohitsc20) January 23, 2016

Now thats whr IPL comes handy i guess, teaching these young lads how to cope up in pressure situations like these. #IndvsAus #manishpandey

— Sankalp Singh (@singhsankalp04) January 23, 2016

Fewest innings taken for maiden ODI 100 – for India
3 – Manish Pandey
4 – Kedar Jadhav
5 – Manoj Prabhakar/MS Dhoni#AUSvIND #ManishPandey

— Chuzpaah (@Chuzpaah) January 23, 2016

Manish Pandey has a habit to score big runs in the final game..

— Wanderer! (@Iamkaran_10) January 23, 2016

Congratulations Manish Pandey and Team India! We beat Australia in Australia! pic.twitter.com/LRBzYYwwoH

— ScoopWhoop (@ScoopWhoop) January 23, 2016

I'm so happy.India got new promising talented players! Bumrah and Manish Pandey?? They were just too good.

— kashvi.♡ (@Parths_Bae) January 23, 2016

Manish pandey played wid d strike rate ov 128,
it includes only 10 boundaries,dass d class… #IndvsAus #AusVsIndia

— munna.. (@roni3104) January 23, 2016