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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
Nathan Bracken
Extras	(b=1, wd=7)	8
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)
Bowling		O	M	R	W	Econ
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
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
Irfan Pathan
Praveen Kumar
Harbhajan Singh
Piyush Chawla
Ishant Sharma
Extras	(b=4, lb=2, wd=6, nb=2)	14
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).
Bowling		O	M	R	W	Econ
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

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