For a change, this time real pace bowling helped India to crash the world's best team and ODI World Champions! It has also created fear among the Aussies!
Australia won the toss and decided to bat on the MCG and after that nothing went in favor of them! Gilchrist was judged leg before in the first over of the match while the TV replay showed an inside edge. Hayden who looked dangerous was caught behind chasing the ball that pitched little away from the batsman and edge the ball to Dhoni. Ricky, the batsman in poor form continued with his low run form and got out of 9. Clarke (11) and Symonds (14) also did not last long and that put Australia in deep trouble. Haddin was stumped off Harbhajan for five leaving Australia at 92 for 6. Only Hussey was managed to cross 50 and he was not out on 65 till the end of the innings. Ishanth took 4 wickets and Sreesanth 3 wickets. The Aussies did not play their full quota of 50 overs was really a surprising end.
Chasing 160, India lost Shewag early when the score was 18. Everyone except Dhoni was shocked when Pathan entered as the third batsman. He added 18 off 30 balls and was judged leg before off Johnson. The inform Gambhir joined Tendulakar and added 35 runs and was caught by Clarke off Lee. Tendulkar immediately followed him when he was on 44. The poor form batsman of Indian team Yuravaraj followed Tendulakar with 3 leaving India struggle at 102 for 5 needing another 58 runs. The sensible batting by young Rohit Sharma and skipper Dhoni lead India to victory during the 46th over. Everyone expected that India would win comfortably with a bonus point, but surprisingly India had to fight and win. After Sachin's exist, it was better to win than to go for a bonus point. Ishant declared player of the match for his wonderful bowling performance.
Final Score
Australia 159 all out in 43.1 overs (Hayden 25; Hussey 65 not out; Sreesanth 3 for 31; Ishanth 4 for 38; Pathan 2 for 26) lost to India 160 for 5 in 45.5 overs (Tendulkar 44; Rohit Sharma 39 not out; Johnson 2 for 24)
Man of the Match: Ishanth Sharma (India)
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