Australia won the toss and elected to bat. Some lose bowling and aggressive batting meant that they got off to a flying start. The first 10 overs of the match determined the result and made the difference in the end. Scoring 91 runs in the first 10 overs after losing only 1 wicket gave Australia the edge from the very beginning. After this great start India fought back well both in the bowling and batting department but this was not enough to take the result in their favour.
Ricky Ponting, Mathew Hayden and Andrew Symonds came back in form with the Australian captain scoring a century. A quick fire fifty from Symonds helped Australia to reach 317. India managed to restrict Australia after it looked that India may have to chase a score of higher than 350. Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma all went for a lot of runs whereas Harbajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag did the job of containing.
India got off to a bad start with Tendulkar getting out LBW to Brett Lee in the first over. After losing 3 more quick wickets – Sehwag (16), Rohit Sharma (1) and Yuvraj Singh (6) India were struggling at 51 for four.
Then came the fight back from the Indians. Dhoni had a good partnership with Gambhir before he got out on 36. Gambhir went on to score his second century of the series and looked convincing in his 112. Uthappa made his first half century and led the fight back towards the end. Pathan and Harbajan Singh chipped in with a few runs too. Finally India ended up at 299 runs losing by 18 runs.
India’s loss to Australia means that the match between India Vs. Sri Lanka will be like the semi final with Australia already qualifying to the finals.
Ricky Ponting, Mathew Hayden and Andrew Symonds came back in form with the Australian captain scoring a century. A quick fire fifty from Symonds helped Australia to reach 317. India managed to restrict Australia after it looked that India may have to chase a score of higher than 350. Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma all went for a lot of runs whereas Harbajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag did the job of containing.
India got off to a bad start with Tendulkar getting out LBW to Brett Lee in the first over. After losing 3 more quick wickets – Sehwag (16), Rohit Sharma (1) and Yuvraj Singh (6) India were struggling at 51 for four.
Then came the fight back from the Indians. Dhoni had a good partnership with Gambhir before he got out on 36. Gambhir went on to score his second century of the series and looked convincing in his 112. Uthappa made his first half century and led the fight back towards the end. Pathan and Harbajan Singh chipped in with a few runs too. Finally India ended up at 299 runs losing by 18 runs.
India’s loss to Australia means that the match between India Vs. Sri Lanka will be like the semi final with Australia already qualifying to the finals.
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