Match : India vs Australia, 2nd Final, CB triseries.
Venue : Woolloongabba aka Gabba in Brisbane, Australia.
Date : 3 March, 2008.. a Day/Night ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2689 overall.
Toss : India, elected to bat.
Result : India won by 9 runs.
Series : India won CB Triseries 2008.
Man of Match : Praveen Kumar.
Man of the series : Nathan Bracken
Umpires : Tony Hill & Simon Taufel.
Dhoni finally won a toss and without thinking twice - he elected to bat. Sachin Tendulkar had not recovered completely from his century just 2 days ago in the first final, but champion batsman continued his responsibility & laied the platform.
Once India set Australia a target of over 5 runs per over - home team were always chasing the game. James Hopes kept Aussie hopes alive, but Indian's held their nerve to win the Commonwealth Bank triseries - their first Triseries win after entering the finals for the 4th time.
| India (50 over innings) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Robin Uthappa | c Hopes b Clark | 30 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 62 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | c Ponting b Clarke | 91 | 121 | 7 | 0 | 75 |
| Gautam Gambhir | c Johnson b Clarke | 15 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 93 |
| Yuvraj Singh | c Hayden b Symonds | 38 | 38 | 2 | 2 | 100 |
| MS Dhoni © | c Clarke b Bracken | 36 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 97 |
| Rohit Sharma | c Symonds b Clarke | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| Irfan Pathan | b Bracken | 12 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 60 |
| Harbhajan Singh | lbw b Lee | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Praveen Kumar | c Ponting b Bracken | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Piyush Chawla | not out | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 300 |
| S Sreesanth | not out | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Extras | (lb=5, wd=12) | 17 |
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| Total | (for 9 wickets, 50 overs) | 258 | (5.16 runs per over) |
| Fall of wkt : 1-94 (Uthappa, 20.5 ov), 2-121 (Gambhir, 25.2), 3-175 (Yuvraj, 34.6) |
| 4-205 (Tendulkar, 39.2 ov), 5-209 (Rohit, 41.1 ov), 6-237 (Pathan, 47.2 ov) |
| 7-240 (Dhoni, 47.6 ov), 8-249 (Harbhajan, 48.5 ov), 9-255 (49.3 ov) |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Brett Lee (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 58 | 1 | 5.8 |
| Nathan Bracken | 9 | 1 | 31 | 3 | 4.5 |
| Stuart Clark (1 wide) | 6 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 5.3 |
| Mitchell Johnson (8 wides) | 6 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 5.5 |
| James Hopes | 6 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 3.3 |
| Michael Clarke (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 52 | 3 | 5.2 |
| Andrew Symonds (1 wide) | 3 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 9.1 |
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| Australia (target 222 in 50 overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Adam Gilchrist | c Dhoni b Praveen | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 67 |
| Mathew Hayden | run out (Yuvraj/Harbhajan) | 55 | 68 | 7 | 0 | 81 |
| Ricky Ponting © | c Yuvraj b Praveen | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Michael Clarke | b Praveen | 17 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 77 |
| Andrew Symonds | lbw b Harbhajan | 42 | 56 | 2 | 1 | 76 |
| Michael Hussey | c Dhoni b Sreesanth | 44 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 105 |
| James Hopes | c Piyush b Pathan | 63 | 80 | 4 | 1 | 79 |
| Brett Lee | b Praveen | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 58 |
| Mitchell Johnson | c Dhoni b Sreesanth | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 133 |
| Nathan Bracken | c Piyush b Pathan | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Stuart Clark | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Extras | (lb=2, wd=7) | 9 |
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| Total | (all out, 49.2 overs) | 249 | (4.31 runs per over) |
| Fall' wkts : 1-2 (Gilchrist, 0.3 ov), 2-8 (Ponting, 2.3 ov), 3-32 (Clarke, 5.6 ov) |
| 4-121 (Hayden, 25.4), 5-123 (Symonds, 25.6 ov), 6-199 (Hussey, 41.6 ov), |
| 7-228 (Lee, 46.4 ov), 8-238 (Johnson, 48.2 ov), 9-247 (Bracken, 49.2 ov) & Hopes |
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| Bowling |
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| Praveen Kumar |
| 10 | 2 | 46 | 4 | 4.6 |
| S Sreesanth | (2 wides) | 9 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 4.8 |
| Irfan Pathan | (4 wides) | 8.4 | 0 | 54 | 2 | 6.3 |
| Harbhajan Singh | (1 wide) | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 4.4 |
| Piyush Chawla |
| 9 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 5.1 |
| Yuvraj Singh |
| 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5.1 |