Match : India vs Australia, CB Triseris first final.
Venue : Sydney cricket ground, Australia.
Date : 2 March, 2008.. an Day/Night ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2688 overall.
Toss : Australia, elected to bat.
Result : India won by 6 wickets, 25 ball remaining.
Series : First final, Ind v Aus v SL triseries 2008.
Man of Match : Sachin Tendulkar.
Umpires : Darell Harper & Rody Koertzen
Indians outsmarted home team. they indeed did. on a placid pitch, Indian bowlers didn't allow Australia to score freely like they always do. Indian spinners (playing together for the first time in the tournament) blocked Aussie run building..
And then, it was Sachin Tendulkar show. Along with Robin Uthappa - he placed the foundation for the chase and then fellow youngster from Mumbai - Rohit Sharma made the match winning partnership.
| Australia (50 over innings) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St rate |
| Adam Gilchrist | c Yuvraj b Praveen | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Mathew Hayden | c Chawla b Harbhajan | 82 | 88 | 10 | 0 | 93 |
| Ricky Ponting © | b Praveen Kumar | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Michael Clarke | c Dhoni b Ishant | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Andrew Symonds | c Praveen b Harbhajan | 31 | 44 | 4 | 0 | 71 |
| Michael Hussey | run out (Dhoni/Pathan) | 45 | 67 | 2 | 0 | 67 |
| James Hopes | c Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh | 15 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 40 |
| Brad Hogg | not out | 23 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 74 |
| Brett Lee | c Rohit b Pathan | 17 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 170 |
| Mitchell Johnson | not out | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 200 |
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| Extras | (b=1, wd=7) | 8 |
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| Total | (for 8 wickets, 50 overs) | 239 | (4.78 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets : 1-16 (Gilchrist, 2.4 ov), 2-19 (Ponting, 4.2 ov), 3-24 (Clarke, 5.5 ov) |
| 4-124 (Symonds, 23.1 ov), 5-135 (Hayden, 27.3 ov), 6-173 (Hopes, 38.5 ov), |
| 7-212 (Hussey, 46.6 ov) and 8-231 (Lee, 48.6 ov) |
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| Praveen Kumar | (1 wide) | 10 | 1 | 49 | 2 | 4.9 |
| Ishant Sharma | (1 wide) | 8 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 4.1 |
| Irfan Pathan | (1 wide) | 7 | 0 | 63 | 1 | 9.1 |
| Harbhajan Singh | (2 wides) | 10 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 3.8 |
| Piyush Chawla | (2 wides) | 10 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 3.3 |
| Yuvraj Singh |
| 4 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 4.5 |
| Rohit Sharma |
| 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.1 |
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| India (Target 240 from 50 overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St rate |
| Robin Uthappa | c Hussey b Hopes | 17 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 52 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | not out | 117 | 120 | 10 | 0 | 98 |
| Gautam Gambhir | run out (Johnson/Hopes) | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75 |
| Yuvraj Singh | b Hogg | 10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 48 |
| Rohit Sharma | b Hopes | 66 | 87 | 6 | 0 | 76 |
| MS Dhoni © | not out | 15 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 126 |
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| Extras | (b=4, lb=2, wd=6, nb=2) | 14 |
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| Total | (for 4 wickets, 45.5 overs) | 242 | (5.28 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets : 1-50 (Uthappa, 10.6 ov), 2-56 (Gambhir, 12.4 ov) |
| 3-87 (Yuvraj, 18.5 ov), 4-210 (Rohit, 41.3 ov). |
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| Bowling |
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| Brett Lee | (2 no balls, 3 wides) | 9 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 3.7 |
| Nathan Bracken |
| 8 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 5.3 |
| Mitchell Johnson | (2 wides) | 10 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 7.1 |
| James Hopes |
| 8.5 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 4.8 |
| Brad Hogg | (1 wide) | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 5.5 |
| Michael Clarke |
| 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3.7 |
