Dhoni and the man in blue stunned Ricky Ponting,Symonds,Lee and Hayden to lift the Commonwealth Tri-series Cup in Brisbane. The young Indian team turned the world upside down when it produced a magical performance at Gabba to knock down the World Champions,by 9 runs. Ricky Ponting's fuming big boys were beaten twice consecutively in two days in the best of the three finals.
India batting first scored 258 runs in 50 overs. Sachin Tendulkar again showed he is a master batsman with his classy 91 runs in 121 balls. Again a sound start for the first wicket partnership of 94 runs with Robin Uttappa scoring 30 runs in 49 balls.
Dhoni contributed 36 runs in 37 balls and Yuvraj 38 runs in 38 balls.
The target for 259 runs for the Aussies was achievable,with there strong batting line up. But the young Indian bowlers rattled the Kangaroos in the first over when Gilchrist was out for 2 runs wicket claimed by Parveen Kumar. Thereafter they were not allowed to settle down and Parveen Kumar showed the pavilion to Ricky Ponting for 1 run. Parveen continued his debacle and the Aussies were dangling lose at 3 wickets for 32 runs.
But Hayden 55 runs,Symonds 42 runs , Hussey 44 runs , Hopes 63 runs tried to reach the target losing wickets at regular intervals.
In a nail biting finish Australia required 13 runs with 2 wickets in hand in the last over. The ball was given to Irfan Pathan who produced two wicket taking balls to finish with Australia all out for 249 runs.
The highlights of the series were India won the Tri-Series in Australia after 23 years. Second Sachin reaches No 1 position in ICC rankings throwing out Ponting.
Third Streakers running on the ground,Symonds smashes one who falls on the ground.
Fourth Parveen Kumar named the man of match. The only consolation for the Australian was Bracken was named the man of the series.
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