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India vs Australia at Sydney

IND vs AUS, match 10, Sydney: Australia beat India by 18 runs

Feb 24, 2008

Century-maker Ricky Ponting led Australia's batting revival before his bowlers just managed to thwart India's bold reply in a thrilling 18-run win at the SCG.
Chasing 318 to win, India's Gautam Gambhir (113 off 119 balls) scored his second hundred of the tri-series before Robin Uthappa (51 off 46 balls) handed Australia some nervous moments with his exhilarating late-hitting. The result means that Sri Lanka can still make the best of three final against Australia but must beat India on Tuesday in Hobart and the hosts on Friday at the MCG to progress. The Australian snapped his head back to have some words with Sharma after being brought undone by his slower ball in the dying overs as Australia reached 7-317.
The controversies overshadowed the return to form of Ponting (124), Symonds (59 off 49 balls) and Matthew Hayden (54 off 62 balls) as the home side's batting clicked for the first time in the tri-series. Ponting, 33, celebrated his 26th international one-day century by raising his bat and exuberantly punching his air in the direction of the Australian change rooms. Only Sachin Tendulkar (41) has registered more one-day international hundreds than him.
Symonds was earlier booed heavily as he walked out to the crease, but then showed why he was the most expensive overseas signing at last week's Indian Premier League auction, with a thumping knock. But controversy seems to shadow Symonds these days and his exchange with Sharma showed there is still more than a little tension between the sides.
The umpires intervened to try to cool down Sharma as Symonds trudged off the ground. A refreshed Brett Lee (5-58 off 9.1 overs) then put the Indians immediately on the backfoot in their innings by trapping Sachin Tendulkar (2) in front.
The tourists then slipped from 1-45 to 4-51 as Stuart Clark and Nathan Bracken peeled open the Indian top order with Virender Sehwag (17), Rohit Sharma (1) and Yuvraj Singh (5) all caught behind. Gambhir launched a valiant fightback, putting on 98 with Dhoni (36) for the fifth wicket before Lee returned to remove the dangerous right-hander. Gilchrist stumped Gambhir off Brad Hogg's bowling for one of his record-equalling six scalps with the score on 216 in the 40th over.
And that should have been the game but Uthappa had other ideas with 18 runs coming off Clark in the 46th over before Lee cleaned him and Harbhajan Singh up in consecutive balls in the 48th over. The paceman then finished the innings with his third wicket in four balls by bowling tailender Ishant Sharma (2).

IND vs AUS, match 10, Sydney: Australia 317-7 in 50 overs beat India 299 in 49.1 overs by 18 runs

India vs Australia at Sydney

Scores

Australia won the toss and decided to bat

Australia Innings

317 for 7 (50.0 overs)

India Innings

299 all out (49.1 overs)

Australia Innings - Close

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Gilchrist	c Dhoni	b Sreesanth	16	7	3	0
Hayden	run out		54	62	5	1
Ponting	c Pathan	b Sreesanth	124	133	7	1
Clarke	c R Sharma	b Sehwag	31	38	0	0
Symonds		b Sharma	59	49	6	2
M Hussey	not out		15	10	0	0
Hopes	run out		4	3	0	0
Lee	run out		0	0	0	0
Extras		1nb 8w 5lb	14
Total		for 7	317	(50.0 ovs)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Sreesanth	8.0	0	58	2
Sharma	10.0	0	65	1
Pathan	9.0	0	73	0
Harbhajan	9.0	0	50	0
Sehwag	6.0	0	28	1
Yuvraj	8.0	0	38	0

Fall of wicket
21	Gilchrist
131	Hayden
194	Clarke
296	Symonds
304	Ponting
317	Hopes
317	Lee

India Innings - All out

			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Sehwag	c Gilchrist	b Clark	17	19	3	0
Tendulkar	lbw	b Lee	2	3	0	0
Gambhir	st Gilchrist	b Hogg	113	119	9	1
R Sharma	c Gilchrist	b Bracken	1	3	0	0
Yuvraj	c Gilchrist	b Clark	5	3	1	0
Dhoni	c Gilchrist	b Lee	36	66	4	0
Uthappa	c M Hussey	b Lee	51	46	4	1
Pathan	c Bracken	b Hopes	22	21	2	0
Harbhajan	c Gilchrist	b Lee	20	11	3	0
Sreesanth	not out		3	4	0	0
Sharma		b Lee	2	4	0	0
Extras		4nb 12w 6b 5lb	27
Total		all out	299	(49.1 ovs)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Lee	9.1	1	58	5
Bracken	10.0	0	53	1
Clark	10.0	0	55	2
Hopes	6.0	0	27	1
Hogg	9.0	0	62	1
Clarke	5.0	0	33	0

Fall of wicket
3	Tendulkar
45	Sehwag
46	R Sharma
51	Yuvraj
149	Dhoni
216	Gambhir
257	Pathan
290	Harbhajan
290	Uthappa
299	Sharma

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Umpires: D J Harper, A L Hill
Australia: Gilchrist, Hayden, Ponting, Clarke, M Hussey, Hopes, Symonds, Hogg, Lee, Bracken, Clark
India: Sehwag, Tendulkar, Gambhir, Uthappa, Yuvraj, R Sharma, Dhoni, Pathan, Harbhajan, Sharma, Sreesanth

India vs Australia at Sydney

Venue

The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney. It is used for Test cricket, one-day international cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches, and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League.