Match : India vs Australia, Match 4, CB triseries.
Venue : Melbourne cricket ground, Australia.
Date : 10th February, 2008.. an Day/Night ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2675th overall. (92nd Ind v Aus ODI, Aus won 55, Ind 30).
Toss : Australia, elected to bat.
Result : India won by 5 wickets.
Series : Game 4 of Ind v Aus v SL triseries in Australia, Feb-Mar 2008.
Man of Match : Ishant Sharma.
Umpires : Rudi Koertzen (South Africa) & Simon Taufel(Aus).
Forget Indo-pak, forget Ashes.. here's India-Australia cricket matches that gets the fans glued to their TV screen. Today, at toss, it was an easy decision for Aussie captain who elected to bat.. Even India's captain Dhoni didn't hide his disappointment by saying his team's strength is to bat first and defend a score. now that they bowled first - Ishant-Sreesanth made sure they get early wickets and although Michael Hussey played the lone hand - Australia were cut short of total they would have been happy with. They were never in hunt, although few lose strokes from Indians batsmen did set some jitters in camp..
| Australia Innings (50 over Innings) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Adam Gilchrist | lbw b Sreesanth | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mathew Hayden | c Dhoni b Ishant | 25 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 119 |
| Ricky Ponting © | c Tendulkar b Ishant | 9 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| Michael Clarke | c Rohit b Pathan | 11 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 41 |
| Andrew Symonds | c Dhoni b Ishant | 14 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 58 |
| Michael Hussey | not out | 65 | 88 | 4 | 0 | 74 |
| Brad Haddin | st Dhoni b Harbhajan | 5 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Brett Lee | c Dhoni b Pathan | 10 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Mitchell Johnson | c Uthappa b Sreesanth | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
| Stuart Clark | c Tendulkar b Sreesanth | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Nathan Bracken | c Dhoni b Ishant | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (b=1, lb= 3, w=9, nb =3) | 16 |
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| Total | (all out, 43.1 overs) | 159 | (3.68 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets : 1-1 (Gilchrist, 1st ov), 2-37 (Hayden, 6th ov), 3-47 (Ponting, 8th ov) |
| 4-64 (Clarke, 13th ov), 5-75 (Symonds, 18th ov), 6-92 (Haddin, 26th ov), |
| 7-145 (Lee, 39th ov), 8-151 (Johnson, 41st ov), 9-155 (Bracken, 43rd ov) & Clark. |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| S Sreesanth (2 wides) | 9 | 0 | 31 | 3 | 3.44 |
| Ishant Sharma (3 noballs, 2 wides) | 9.1 | 1 | 38 | 4 | 4.14 |
| Irfan Pathan (2 wides) | 8 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 3.25 |
| Harbhajan Singh (2 wides) | 8 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 2.37 |
| Virendra Sehwag | 5 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 4.81 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 5.51 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3.01 |
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| India (target 160 in 50 overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Virendra Sehwag | lbw b Bracken | 11 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 58 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | c Lee b Johnson | 14 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 82 |
| Irfan Pathan | lbw b Johnson | 18 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 60 |
| Gautam Gambhir | c Clarke b Lee | 20 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 47 |
| Yuvraj Singh | c Hussey b Clark | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Rohit Sharma | not out | 39 | 61 | 2 | 0 | 64 |
| MS Dhoni © | not out | 17 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
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| Extras | (lb=3, wd=5) | 8 |
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| Total | (for 5 wickets, 45.1 overs) | 160 | (3.49 runs per over) |
| Fall of wkts : 1-18 (Sehwag, 4th ov), 2-54 (Pathan, 12th ov), 3-89 (Gambhir, 22 ov) |
| 4-96 (Tendulkar, 26th ov), 5-102 (Yuvraj, 28.3 ov) |
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| Bowling |
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| Brett Lee | (2 wides) | 9 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 4.5 |
| Nathan Bracken | (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 3.5 |
| Stuart Clark |
| 10 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 2.5 |
| Mitchell Johnson | (1 wide) | 10 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 2.5 |
| Michael Clarke |
| 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3.1 |
| Andrew Symonds | (1 wide) | 2.5 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 6.7 |
