Australia beats India and leads by 1-0 in the Future Cup series
By Editor on Oct 3, 2007 in Sports
Australia beat India by 84 runs in the second ODI of the seven-match series played here today.
Kochi, Oct 2 : Australia beat India by 84 runs in the second ODI of the seven-match series played here today.
Chasing a target of 307 runs set by Australia, India was all out for 222 runs with more than two overs to go.
India lost its first four wickets in quick succession and before the end of first fifteen overs, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa were back to pavilion scoring 7,16, 10 and 41 runs respectively.
After Hogg dismissed Dravid, Indian went for a toss with skipper M S Dhoni trying his best to salvage his team. Dhoni made 58 and was the last one to go.
From the Australian side, Hogg was the highest wicket taker. He took three crucial wickets of Dravid, Yuvraj and Dhoni.
Stuart Clark and Michael Clarke shared two wickets each, while Bret Lee was the most uneconomical bowler with his economy crossing 6 runs per over.
Earlier, India won the toss and elected to field first, which many termed as a bad decision.
Though Adam Gilchrist was dismissed in the first over by Zaheer Khan, Australia recovered from its early loss with Matthew Hayden scoring 75 runs. However, it was the partnership of Andrew Symonds and Man of the Match trophy winner, Brad Haddin, that helped Aussie to score a formidable score of 306 runs.
From Indian side, S Sreesanth picked up three wickets followed by Irfan Pathan with two wickets and Zaheer Khan with one wicket.
“Their (India’s) captain said after Bangalore that it seems to have been a bit of a trend for them to let teams off a little bit. But I’m not saying it was their bad bowling. I prefer to think it was our good batsmanship,” said Gilchrist after winning the match.
Australia leads the series 1-0.
Scoreboard
India vs. Australia, second one-day international, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi, Oct 2
Australia:
Adam Gilchrist c Tendulkar b Khan 0
Matthew Hayden b Pathan 75
Brad Hodge c Dhoni b Sreesanth 3
Michael Clarke st Dhoni b Pathan 27
Andrew Symonds c and amp; b Sreesanth 87
Brad Haddin not out 87
James Hopes c Dravid b Sreesanth 4
Brett Lee not out 2
Extras: (b 4, lb 2, w 15) 21
Total: (for six wickets in 50 overs) 306
Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Gilchrist, 0.6 overs), 2-8 (Hodge, 3.1), 3-66 (Clarke, 15.3), 4-160 (Hayden, 31.1), 5-268 (Symonds, 46.5), 6-297 (Hopes, 49.2)
Bowling:
Zaheer Khan 10-1-55-1 (2w)
Sreesanth 9-0-67-3 (2w)
Irfan Pathan 10-0-47-2 (3w)
Harbhajan Singh 10-0-57-0 (1w)
Ramesh Powar 5-0-30-0
Sachin Tendulkar 3-0-22-0
Yuvraj Singh 3-0-22-0
India:
Gautam Gambhir b Johnson 7
Sachin Tendulkar c Symonds b Clark 16
Robin Uthappa lbw Clark 41
Yuvraj Singh c Hayden b Hopes 10
Rahul Dravid c Johnson b Hogg 31
Mahendra Sing Dhoni not out 5
Mahendra Singh Dhoni c Hodge b Hogg 58
Irfan Pathan run out (Hogg/Clarke) 1
Harbhajan Singh st Gilchrist b Clarke 4
Ramesh Powar b Clarke 17
Zaheer Khan c Hodge b Hogg 3
Sreesanth not out 7
Extras: (b 4, lb 6, w 10, nb 7) 27
Total: (all out in 47.3 overs) 222
Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Gambhir, 3.1 overs), 2-58 (Tendulkar, 8.5), 3-79 (Yuvraj, 11.4), 4-87 (Uthappa, 14.2), 5-136 (Dravid, 25.1), 6-139 (Pathan, 26.6), 7-154 (Harbhajan, 30.3), 8-179 (Powar, 34.6), 9-190 (Khan, 39.2 ov), 10-222 (Dhoni, 47.3 ov)
Bowling:
Brett Lee 7-0-44-0 (2nb, 2w)
Mitchell Johnson 9-1-46-1 (5w)
Stuart Clark 6-0-14-2
James Hopes 7-0-33-1 (1nb, 1w)
Michael Clarke 9-1-35-2
Brad Hogg 9.3-0-40-3 (1w)
Result: Australia won by 84 runs
Man of the Match: Brad Haddin (Australia)
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (West Indies) and Suresh Shastri (India)
TV umpire: G.A. Pratapkumar (India)
Match referee: Chris Broad (England)
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