When MS Dhoni won the toss of 4th ODI against Australia at Chandigarh in India then Dhoni's face was shining to won the match and decided bat first to prove that. And that was the result India won by eight(8) runs after real hard contest against Australia.
India were come back in the game largely by their spinners, Kartik and Harbhajan Singh, balled with maintaining superb line and length as well as got some important wickets of Hayden, Clarke and Hodge. They built the pressure on Hodge by denying him singles which kept Symonds away from the strike. Irfan Pathan was also difficult to get away and RP Singh's return after a miserable start was superb.
Earlier India started their batting quite sensibly not to loosing any wickets early. Though the runs did not came flourishingly but it was the base to go as close as 300 runs. Ganguly finished with 41 and Tendulkar made 79 who was initially looking out of place as the fast men swung the ball at will. He just could not lay bat on ball - Lee was especially threatening - but despite two close lbw shouts and a possible inside edge that was turned down by the umpire, Tendulkar did not give up. And in later Dhoni and Robin Uthappa came home with a bang. Finally they scored 291/4 to through a challenge for Australia.
To chase the target of 291 Australia started with swing of bat to make good use of power play and the did it well enough to chase it and gave Australia a terrific start as they raced to 106 for 1 from 15 overs. Hayden and Symonds both clinched their third consecutive fifty with good knocks. Hayden had built a solid base with 92 at a run a ball but the pressure began to mount when he departed. But Symonds was handling it quite sensibly. When Symonds bowled out by a dream delivery of RP Sing then the game was tougher for Asutralia. Before that Ponting was stumped by a full in length delivery of Pathan, slanting away from Ponting who leans forward to drive. The bat comes outside the line and the ball threads the bat and pad gap. Dhoni gathers and whips the bails off in flash. The line belongs to the umpire and he was out. Ponting stood there for a long time, unhappy at the verdict even as he walked up the stairs to reach the dressing room. It was a decision made by the third umpire.
Thats way India alive in seven match series by trailing 2-1 in four. MS Dhoni was judged as man of the match for his quick, important 50* from just 35 balls. The fifth game at Vadodara on Thursday.
| Australia in India ODI Series - 4th ODI India v Australia | 2007/08 season |
Played at Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh, on 8 October 2007 (50-over match) Result India won by 8 runs |
| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| SC Ganguly | c Gilchrist b Hopes | 41 | 95 | 59 | 6 | 0 | 69.49 | ||
| SR Tendulkar | run out (Lee) | 79 | 184 | 119 | 7 | 0 | 66.38 | ||
| Yuvraj Singh | c Ponting b Hopes | 39 | 61 | 55 | 5 | 0 | 70.90 | ||
| MS Dhoni | not out | 50 | 59 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 142.85 | ||
| R Dravid | b Bracken | 13 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 92.85 | ||
| RV Uthappa | not out | 30 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 166.66 | ||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 7, w 31) | 39 | |||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 50 overs; 219 mins) | 291 | (5.82 runs per over) | ||||||
| Fall of wickets1-91 (Ganguly, 19.6 ov), 2-174 (Yuvraj Singh, 35.6 ov), 3-221 (Tendulkar, 41.5 ov), 4-244 (Dravid, 45.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
| B Lee | 7 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 3.71 | (3w) | |
| NW Bracken | 10 | 0 | 78 | 1 | 7.80 | (4w) | |
| MG Johnson | 8 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 6.37 | (3w) | |
| JR Hopes | 9 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 4.77 | (1w) | |
| A Symonds | 7 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 5.57 | (3w) | |
| GB Hogg | 9 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 5.11 | (2w) |
| Australia innings (target: 292 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| AC Gilchrist | c Khan b Singh | 18 | 25 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 105.88 | ||
| ML Hayden | c Khan b Kartik | 92 | 156 | 92 | 11 | 2 | 100.00 | ||
| RT Ponting | st Dhoni b Pathan | 29 | 62 | 33 | 5 | 0 | 87.87 | ||
| MJ Clarke | c & b Harbhajan Singh | 6 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 | ||
| A Symonds | b Singh | 75 | 103 | 84 | 3 | 1 | 89.28 | ||
| BJ Hodge | st Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh | 17 | 36 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 58.62 | ||
| JR Hopes | not out | 23 | 30 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 115.00 | ||
| GB Hogg | run out (Singh) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| B Lee | not out | 5 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 55.55 | ||
| Extras | (lb 5, w 13) | 18 | |||||||
| Total | (7 wickets; 50 overs; 227 mins) | 283 | (5.66 runs per over) | ||||||
| Fall of wickets1-37 (Gilchrist, 5.1 ov), 2-122 (Ponting, 18.2 ov), 3-132 (Clarke, 21.4 ov), 4-190 (Hayden, 33.5 ov), 5-246 (Hodge, 43.2 ov), 6-268 (Symonds, 46.5 ov), 7-268 (Hogg, 46.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
| Z Khan | 9 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 7.55 | (2w) | |
| RP Singh | 10 | 1 | 66 | 2 | 6.60 | (9w) | |
| IK Pathan | 10 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 4.60 | (1w) | |
| SC Ganguly | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 | ||
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 4.30 | (1w) | |
| M Kartik | 10 | 0 | 48 | 1 | 4.80 |
Toss India, who chose to bat first Player of the matchMS Dhoni (India) UmpiresSA Bucknor (West Indies) and SL Shastri |
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