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| India tail earns consolation win |
| India edged a fluctuating final one-day international by two wickets in Mumbai, as the series ended 4-2 to Australia.
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| INDIA
, 17-October-2007
17:50:47 PM |
| Murali Kartik took 6-27, the best ODI return by a left-arm spinner and three Australia batsmen fell first ball.
Ricky Ponting hit a 63rd one-day fifty as his team mustered 193 all out, but India were soon 8-2 inside four overs.
Robin Uthappa gave them hope with two sixes in a fluent 47, and an unbroken 52 stand between Zaheer Khan and Kartik led them home with four overs to spare.
Zaheer had earlier struck with the first delivery of the match, pitching one on middle stump and moving it in to trap Michael Clarke lbw bang in front.
Umpire Aleem Dar, at the start of his 100th one-day international, had no hesitation in sending Clarke to the pavilion for his second successive golden duck.
Zaheer and fellow left-armer RP Singh found considerable movement with the new ball, but struggled to control it, sending down 14 wides between them.
Ponting was the one batsman to look in touch, striking three fluent boundaries in one over from Singh and playing his customary array of attacking strokes
Although he had faced much less of the strike, in the seventh over Gilchrist had only two to his name when he was dropped by Uthappa at second slip off Zaheer.
The left-hander hit three fours in six balls but was well caught at third man when he skewed an extremely wide delivery from Irfan Pathan that barely pitched on the cut strip.
After Kartik had Brad Hodge caught at slip in his second over, he claimed the key wicket of Andrew Symonds next ball when the burly all-rounder slashed a long-hop low to Sachin Tendulkar at point.
Ponting succumbed to a wide one from Singh and edged behind in the 27th over, before a pivotal 32nd over of the innings from Kartik.
An arm ball accounted for Brad Haddin, and though Brad Hogg was unfortunate to be given out caught at short-leg when the ball hit nothing but his pad, there was no doubt next ball when Lee prodded to gully and was the eighth wicket to fall.
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