India vs Australia at Sydney
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Cricket Schedule
- February 3, 2008 : India vs Australia at Brisbane
- February 5, 2008 : India vs Sri Lanka at Brisbane
- February 8, 2008 : Australia vs Sri Lanka at Sydney
- February 10, 2008 : India vs Australia at Melbourne
- February 12, 2008 : India vs Sri Lanka at Canberra
- February 15, 2008 : Australia vs Sri Lanka at Perth
- February 17, 2008 : India vs Australia at Adelaide
- February 19, 2008 : India vs Sri Lanka at Adelaide
- February 22, 2008 : Australia vs Sri Lanka at Melbourne
- February 24, 2008 : India vs Australia at Sydney
- February 26, 2008 : India vs Sri Lanka at Hobart
- February 29, 2008 : Australia vs Sri Lanka at Melbourne
- March 2, 2008 : 1st final at Sydney
- March 4, 2008 : 2nd final at Brisbane
- March 7, 2008 : 3rd final at Adelaide
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
317 for 7 (50.0 overs)
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299 all out (49.1 overs)
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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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) |
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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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) |
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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