Smells Like Team Spirit

Given the youngsters who made it come true, it could well be called an almost-teen spirit that helped India beard the lion in his own den, their first-ever cricket tri-series title on Australian soil

Ashish Shukla

Updated on: 4 March 2008 12:00 am

PTI

Updated on: 4 March 2008 12:00 am

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Smells Like Team Spirit

TRI SERIES FINAL
Score Card

INDIA BATTING

		Runs	Balls	4s	6s
R Uthappa	c Hopes b Clark	30	49	1	0
S Tendulkar	c Ponting b Clarke	91	121	7	0
G Gambhir	c Johnson b Clarke	15	16	1	0
Yuvraj Singh	c Hayden b Symonds	38	38	2	2
*MS Dhoni	c Clarke b Bracken	36	37	2	1
Rohit Sharma	c Symonds b Clarke	2	5	0	0
I Pathan	b Bracken	12	20	1	0
Harbhajan Singh	lbw b Lee	3	3	0	0
P Kumar	c Ponting b Bracken	7	7	1	0
P Chawla	not out	6	2	1	0
S Sreesanth	not out	1	2	0	0
Extras: 17 ( b:0 lb:5 nb:0 w:12)
Total: 258-9 (50) \| Curr. RR: 5.16

FOW: R Uthappa (94-1, 20.5), G Gambhir (121-2, 25.2), Yuvraj Singh (175-3, 35), S Tendulkar (205-4, 39.2), Rohit Sharma (209-5, 41.1), I Pathan (237-6, 47.2), *MS Dhoni (240-7, 48), Harbhajan Singh (249-8, 48.5), P Kumar (255-9, 49.3)


AUSTRALIA BOWLING

OMRWNbWdB Lee10058101N Bracken9131300S Clark6032101M Johnson6033008J Hopes6020000M Clarke10052301A Symonds3027101

Powerplay 1: 1-10 ovs, 2: 11-15 ovs, 3: 16-20 ovs

AUSTRALIA BATTING

		Runs	Balls	4s	6s
A Gilchrist	c Dhoni b Kumar	2	3	0	0
M Hayden	run out (Yuvraj)	55	68	7	0
*R Ponting	c Yuvraj b Kumar	1	7	0	0
M Clarke	b Kumar	17	22	1	0
A Symonds	lbw b Harbhajan	42	56	2	1
M Hussey	c Dhoni b Sreesanth	44	42	3	0
J Hopes	c Chawla b Pathan	63	78	4	1
B Lee	b Kumar	7	12	0	0
M Johnson	c Dhoni b Sreesanth	8	6	1	0
N Bracken	c Chawla b Pathan	1	2	0	0
S Clark	not out	0	0	0	0
Extras: 9 ( b:0 lb:3 nb:0 w:6)
Total: 249-10 (49.4) \| Curr. RR: 5.01

FOW: A Gilchrist (2-1, 0.3), *R Ponting (8-2, 2.3), M Clarke (32-3, 9), M Hayden (121-4, 25.4), A Symonds (123-5, 26), M Hussey (199-6, 42), B Lee (228-7, 46.4), M Johnson (238-8, 48.2), N Bracken (247-9, 49.2), J Hopes (249-10, 49.4)