Related Link : Commonwealth Bank Series 2007/08
Venue : Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne (Day/Night)
Toss : Australia won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Simon Taufel (Aus) and Rudi Koertzen (SA)
Match Result : India won by 5 wickets
Man of the Match : Ishant Sharma
Australia (50 Overs Maximum)
Adam Gilchrist (WK) lbw b Sreesanth 0 (3)
Matthew Hayden c Dhoni b Ishant Sharma 25 (21) 5 ‘4s’
Ricky Ponting (C) c Tendulkar b Ishant Sharma 9 (15)
Michael Clarke c Rohit Sharma b Pathan 11 (27) 1 ‘4s’
Andrew Symonds c Dhoni b Ishant Sharma 14 (24) 1 ‘4s’
Michael Hussey not out 65 (88) 4 ‘4s’
Brad Haddin st Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh 5 (31)
Brett Lee c Dhoni b Pathan 10 (35)
Mitchell Johnson c Uthappa b Sreesanth 3 (8)
Nathan Bracken c Tendulkar b Sreesanth 1 (9)
Stuart Clark c Dhoni b Ishant Sharma 0 (1)
Extras: 16 (Wides : 9 No Balls: 3 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 3)
Total : 159 all out (Overs : 43.1)
Fall of Wickets : 1-1 (Gilchrist, 0.3 ovs), 2-37 (Hayden, 5.2 ovs), 3-47 (Ponting, 7.2 ovs), 4-64 (Clarke, 12.5 ovs), 5-75 (Symonds, 17.5 ovs), 6-92 (Haddin, 25.2 ovs), 7-145 (Lee, 38.2 ovs), 8-151 (Johnson, 40.4 ovs), 9-155 (Bracken, 42.5 ovs), 10-159 (Clark, 43.1 ovs)
India Bowling
Sreesanth 9-0-31-3 (2w)
Ishant Sharma 9.1-1-38-4 (2w 3nb)
Pathan 8-0-26-2 (2w)
Harbhajan 8-2-19-1 (2w)
Sehwag 5-0-24-0
Yuvraj 2-0-11-0
Tendulkar 2-0-6-0
India (Target : 160 from 50 Overs)
Virender Sehwag lbw b Bracken 11 (19) 2 ‘4s’
Sachin Tendulkar c Lee b Johnson 44 (54) 3 ‘4s’
Irfan Pathan lbw b Johnson 18 (30) 2 ‘4s’
Gautam Gambhir c Clarke b Lee 21 (43) 3 ‘4s’
Yuvraj Singh c Hussey b Clark 3 (14)
Rohit Sharma not out 39 (61) 2 ‘4s’
MS Dhoni (C&WK) not out 17 (54)
Robin Uthappa
Harbhajan Singh
Sreesanth
Ishant Sharma
Extras: 7 (Wides : 5 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 2)
Total : 160/5 (Overs : 45.5)
Fall of Wickets : 1-18 (Sehwag, 3.6 ovs), 2-54 (Pathan, 11.2 ovs), 3-89 (Gambhir, 21.6 ovs), 4-96 (Tendulkar, 25.4 ovs), 5-102 (Yuvraj Singh, 28.3 ovs)
Australia Bowling
Lee 9-0-42-1 (2w)
Bracken 10-0-35-1 (1w)
Stuart Clark 10-1-26-1
Johnson 10-1-24-2 (1w)
Michael Clarke 4-0-12-0
Symonds 2.5-0-19-0 (1w)