Certainly a sorry display from the side. Men in Blue kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Gautam Gambhir returned very early, he had no idea about the pace and swing of the ball that took the bails. Robin Uthappa played some solid strokes. His quick fire 41 of 30 balls may looked cool, but in that situation India needed a sensible long inning from him. Tendulkar was at his callus best. He got out with a careless stroke, there was nothing in the ball, he only got out by his own effort. Dravid played his quota, made 31 and headed for dressing room.
News: Australia beat India by 84 runs
Full Scoreboard
Australia Scoreboard
| Australia | 306-6 (50) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| *A Gilchrist | c Tendulkar b Zaheer | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Hayden | b Pathan | 75 | 89 | 5 | 3 | 84.27 | |
| B Hodge | c Dhoni b Sreesanth | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | |
| M Clarke | st Dhoni b Pathan | 27 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 71.05 | |
| A Symonds | c and b Sreesanth | 87 | 83 | 9 | 2 | 104.82 | |
| B Haddin | not out | 87 | 69 | 8 | 3 | 126.09 | |
| J Hopes | c Dravid b Sreesanth | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| B Lee | not out | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| B Hogg | |||||||
| M Johnson | |||||||
| S Clark | |||||||
| Extras: 21 ( b:4 lb:2 nb:0 w:15) | |||||||
| Total: 306-6 (50) | Curr. RR: 6.12 | |||||||
| FOW: *A Gilchrist (3-1, 1), B Hodge (8-2, 3.1), M Clarke (66-3, 15.4), M Hayden (160-4, 31.1), A Symonds (268-5, 46.5), J Hopes (297-6, 49.2) | |||||||
| India | O | M | R | W | Nb | Wd | RPO | |
| Zaheer Khan | 10 | 1 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5.50 | |
| S Sreesanth | 9 | 0 | 67 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7.44 | |
| I Pathan | 10 | 0 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4.70 | |
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5.70 | |
| R Powar | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.00 | |
| S Tendulkar | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.33 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.33 | |
India Scoreboard
| India | 222-10 (47.3) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| G Gambhir | b Johnson | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 53.85 | |
| S Tendulkar | c Symonds b Clark | 16 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 64.00 | |
| R Uthappa | lbw b Clark | 41 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 136.67 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | c Hayden b Hopes | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| R Dravid | c Johnson b Hogg | 31 | 48 | 3 | 1 | 64.58 | |
| *MS Dhoni | c Hodge b Hogg | 58 | 88 | 2 | 2 | 65.91 | |
| I Pathan | run out (Hogg) | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.29 | |
| Harbhajan Singh | st Gilchrist b Clarke | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| R Powar | b Clarke | 17 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 94.44 | |
| Zaheer Khan | c Hodge b Hogg | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 21.43 | |
| S Sreesanth | not out | 7 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 28.00 | |
| Extras: 27 ( b:4 lb:6 nb:7 w:10) | |||||||
| Total: 222-10 (47.3) | Curr. RR: 4.67 | |||||||
| FOW: G Gambhir (11-1, 3.1), S Tendulkar (58-2, 8.5), Yuvraj Singh (79-3, 11.4), R Uthappa (87-4, 14.2), R Dravid (136-5, 25.1), I Pathan (139-6, 27), Harbhajan Singh (154-7, 30.3), R Powar (179-8, 35), Zaheer Khan (190-9, 39.2), *MS Dhoni (222-10, 47.3) | |||||||
| Australia | O | M | R | W | Nb | Wd | RPO | |
| B Lee | 7 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6.29 | |
| M Johnson | 9 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5.11 | |
| S Clark | 6 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.33 | |
| J Hopes | 7 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.71 | |
| M Clarke | 9 | 1 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.89 | |
| B Hogg | 9.3 | 0 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4.21 | |
Source: Rediff
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