Bengaluru, Dec 3: Shreyas Iyer produced a strokeful 53 as India posted 160 for 8 against Australia in the fifth and final T20I here on Sunday.

On a challenging surface, Iyer smacked five fours and two sixes to make 53 from 37 balls while Axar Patel's brisk 31 featured a couple of fours and one six off 21 balls.

The two batters put on 46-run stand for the sixth wicket after Iyer had teamed up with Jitesh Sharma (24) to add 42 runs for the fifth wicket to resurrect a faltering Indian innings.

India have an unassailable lead of 3-1 in the five-match T20I affair, having won the first, second and fourth game of the series.

Brief scores:

India 160/8 in 20 overs (Shreyas Iyer 53, Jitesh Sharma 24, Axar Patel 31; Jason Behrendorff 2/38, Ben Dwarshuis 2/30).

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Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.

Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.

"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.

Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.