Match : India vs Australia, Match 10, CB triseries.
Venue : Sydney cricket ground, Australia.
Date : 24 February, 2008.. a Day/Night ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2685 overall.
Toss : Australia, elected to bat.
Result : Australia won by 18 runs.
Series : Game 10, triseries in Aus 2008
Man of Match : Ricky Ponting.
Umpires : Darell Harper & Tony Hill
Last 194 times when a team batting first in an ODI has scored over 300 runs, target has been chased down only 19 times.. today, India couldn't do it.
To complete the record - 17 times teams chasing over 300 target has reached 300 themselves yet lost the match. today, India made 299 chasing Australian target by 319.
The best pitch so far in the CB triseries 2008, Sydney spectacle was something to watch for cricket fans, but once Australia set such big target and India lost 3 wickets for just 2 runs in middle over - they were always behind in the game.. and finally lost it - but not without a fight though!!
| Australia (50 over Innings) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Adam Gilchrist | c Dhoni b Sreesanth | 16 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 229 |
| Mathew Hayden | run out (Rohit/Sehwag) | 54 | 62 | 5 | 1 | 87 |
| Ricky Ponting © | c Pathan b Sreesanth | 124 | 133 | 7 | 1 | 93 |
| Michael Clarke | c Rohit b Sehwag | 31 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 82 |
| Andrew Symonds | b Ishant Sharma | 59 | 49 | 6 | 2 | 120 |
| Michael Hussey | not out | 15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 150 |
| James Hopes | run out (Harbhajan) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 133 |
| Brett Lee | run out (Harbhajan) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
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| Extras | (lb=5, wd=8, nb =1) | 14 |
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| Total | (for 7 wickets, 50 overs) | 317 | (6.34 runs per over) |
| Fall of wkt : 1-21 (Gilchrist, 2.3 ov), 2-131 (Hayden, 20.3 ov), 3-194 (Clarke, 31.5 ov) |
| 4-296 (Symonds, 47.2 ov), 5-304 (Ponting, 48.1 ov), 6-317 (49.5 ov) & Brett Lee. |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| S Sreesanth | 8 | 0 | 58 | 2 | 7.2 |
| Ishant Sharma (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 65 | 1 | 6.5 |
| Irfan Pathan (1 noball, 2 wides) | 9 | 0 | 73 | 0 | 8.1 |
| Harbhajan Singh (1 wide) | 9 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 5.6 |
| Virendra Sehwag (1 wide) | 6 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 4.7 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 8 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 4.8 |
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| India (target 319 in 50 overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Virendra Sehwag | c Gilchrist b Clark | 17 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 44 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | lbw b Lee | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gautam Gambhir | st Gilchrist b Hogg | 113 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| Rohit Sharma | c Gilchrist b Bracken | 1 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 67 |
| Yuvraj Singh | c Gilchrist b Clark | 5 | 70 | 10 | 1 | 109 |
| MS Dhoni © | c Gilchrist b Lee | 36 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 74 |
| Robin Uthappa | c Hussey b Lee | 51 | 41 | 4 | 0 | 76 |
| Irfan Pathan | c Bracken b Hopes | 22 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 75 |
| Harbhajan Singh | c Gilchrist b Lee | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| S Sreesanth | not out | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ishant Sharma | b Lee | 2 |
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| Extras | (b=6, lb=5, wd=12, nb=4) | 27 |
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| Total | (all out, 49.1 overs) | 299 | (6.08 runs per over) |
| Fall of wkts : 1-3 (Sachin, 0.5 ov), 2-45 (Sehwag, 8.4 ov), 3-46 (Rohit, 9.1 ov) |
| 4-51 (Yuvraj, 10.2 ov), 5-149 (Dhoni, 30.3 ov), 6-216 (Gambhir, 39.1 ov) |
| 7-257 (Irfan, 44.5 ov), 8-290 (Harbhajan, 47.5 ov), and 9-290 (Uthappa, 47.5 ov) |
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| Brett Lee | (3 no-balls, 2 wides) | 9.1 | 1 | 58 | 5 | 6.3 |
| Nathan Bracken | (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 5.3 |
| Stuart Clark | (4 wides) | 10 | 0 | 55 | 2 | 5.5 |
| James Hopes |
| 6 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 4.5 |
| Brad Hogg | (1 no ball) | 9 | 0 | 62 | 1 | 6.9 |
| Michael Clarke |
| 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 6.6 |