49.4: Australia stay with the chase despite losing wickets... and the unlikely hero is James Hopes. With nine to get off three balls though, he holes out to mid-wicket. It’s all over...
Scoreboard Australia vs India Brisbane March 4
India
R Uthappa c Hopes b Clark 30
S Tendulkar c Ponting b Clarke 91
G Gambhir c Johnson b Clarke 15
Yuvraj Singh c Hayden b Symonds 38
MS Dhoni c Clarke b Bracken 36
R Sharma c Symonds b Clarke 2
I Pathan b Bracken 12
Harbhajan Singh lbw b Lee 3
P Kumar c Ponting b Bracken 7
P Chawla not out 6
S Sreesanth not out 1
Extras (lb-5 w-12): 17
Total (9 wickets): 258
FoW: 1-94, 2-121, 3-175, 4-205,
5-209, 6-237, 7-240, 8-249, 9-255
Bowling
Brett Lee 10-0-58-1
Nathan Bracken 9-1-31-3
Stuart Clark 6-0-32-1
Mitchell Johnson 6-0-33-0
James Hopes 6-0-20-0
Michael Clarke 10-0-52-3
Andrew Symonds 3-0-27-1
Australia
A Gilchrist c Dhoni b Kumar 2
M Hayden run out 55
R Ponting c Yuvraj b Kumar 1
M Clarke b Kumar 17
A Symonds lbw b Harbhajan 42
M Hussey c Dhoni b Sreesanth 44
J Hopes c Chawla b Pathan 63
B Lee b Kumar 7
M Johnson c Dhoni b Sreesanth 8
N Bracken c Chawla b Pathan 1
S Clark not out 0
Extras (lb-2 w-7) 9
Total (all out in 49.4 overs) 249
FoW: 1-2, 2-8, 3-32, 4-121, 5-123,
6-199, 7-228, 8-238, 9-247
Bowling:
Praveen Kumar 10-2-46-4
... contd.