Australia 159 (43.1 ov) lost to India 5/160 (45.5 ov) by 5 wickets, 4th CB Series ODI

[mcgillianaire]

Mahendra Singh Dhoni stumps Brad Haddin, Australia v India, CB Series, 4th ODI, Melbourne, February 10, 2008

WE DID IT! The first time India have defeated the Aussies in an ODI at the MCG since 31 January 1986. Only the 3rd victory for India against the Aussies in ODIs in Australia since 1991. Only the 3rd victory for India against the Aussies in their last 21 ODIs. The list goes on. A thoroughly deserved victory set-up by our seamers, consolidated by the Little Master and finished-off by the captain and a batsman of the future. At 5/102 the match was evenly poised and my mind went back to the 14 January 2000 encounter between the same teams. Luckily as Symonds and Martyn did then, Dhoni and Rohit Sharma let the Aussie quicks finish their overs and waited for the 5th bowler weak link to achieve a brilliant victory. Onto Canberra where we take on the Lankans! JAI HIND!!

POSTSCRIPT
19 year-old Ishant Sharma earned his first ODI Man of the Match for his 4-fer including the prize scalp of Aussie captain Ricky Ponting, in similar fashion to the jaffas he bowled to him in the Perth Test. For the first time in living memory India's seam-attack is leading the way to some famous victories abroad. Let's take it from here boys! It's also worth noting that even though the Indian crowd contingent only made up between 5,000 to 10,000 of the 50,000-odd crowd at the MCG, there was no doubt who made the most noise.

Come on you NRIs and PIOs. Bring out your true colours!!

Comments

[soccer-gal.livejournal.com]

What is a prize scalp?

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

A very important/The most important wicket.

[soccer-gal.livejournal.com]

O ok.
Hey didn't India play Australia a few weeks ago and won then too?
Well they showed this clip of Indian beating Australia on the Tamil News and the fans were happy and lit fireworks. Unless, I misinterpretated what they were saying and they showed some old clip.

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Yeh, that was during the Test series. They played 4 Test matches (the 5-day version) in December and January. Now they're involved in a triangular tournament of One-Day matches and the 3rd team is Sri Lanka. Between the Test and One-Day series, India played Australia in a Twenty20 game, the shortest version of international cricket. After playing each other 4 times during the triangular One-Day series, the top 2 teams will contest each other in a Best of 3 Finals.