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Cricket Schedule
- February 3, 2008 : India vs Australia at Brisbane
- February 5, 2008 : India vs Sri Lanka at Brisbane
- February 8, 2008 : Australia vs Sri Lanka at Sydney
- February 10, 2008 : India vs Australia at Melbourne
- February 12, 2008 : India vs Sri Lanka at Canberra
- February 15, 2008 : Australia vs Sri Lanka at Perth
- February 17, 2008 : India vs Australia at Adelaide
- February 19, 2008 : India vs Sri Lanka at Adelaide
- February 22, 2008 : Australia vs Sri Lanka at Melbourne
- February 24, 2008 : India vs Australia at Sydney
- February 26, 2008 : India vs Sri Lanka at Hobart
- February 29, 2008 : Australia vs Sri Lanka at Melbourne
- March 2, 2008 : 1st final at Sydney
- March 4, 2008 : 2nd final at Brisbane
- March 7, 2008 : 3rd final at Adelaide
India vs Australia at Hobart
IND vs SL, match 11, Hobart: India beat Sri Lanka, sail into final of CB series
Feb 26, 2008
A 102-run partnership between Sachin Tendulkar and an unbeaten Gautam Gambhir secured India's place in the Commonwealth Bank Series final after completing a comfortable seven wicket victory over Sri Lanka at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart on Tuesday.
Set 180 to win after Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar claimed four wickets each to dismiss Sri Lanka, who needed to win to keep alive their hopes of facing Australia in the best-of-three final, for 179, Tendulkar (63) and Gambhir (64) guided India home with just over 17 overs to spare. After being dropped by Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene off the third ball of the innings from Chaminda Vaas, opener Robin Uthappa (11) departed seven balls later after being caught by Ishara Amerasinghe at mid-on off Lasith Malinga to bring Tendulkar to the crease alongside Gambhir. The pair brought up India's 50 off 60 balls before Tendulkar dominated a 50 run second wicket partnership off 63 balls.
Tendulkar was the first to bring up his half century from 44 balls, which included nine fours, and after the pair brought up India's 100 in the 17th over and their 100 partnership in 108 balls, Gambhir brought up his 50 off 72 balls. The partnership was finally broken as Tendulkar was caught at long-off by Chamara Silva off Muttiah Muralitharan at the start of the 21st over to leave India 120 for two.
Yuvraj Singh contributed a quickfire 36 off 35 balls before being caught in the covers by Tillakaratne Dilshan off Dilruwan Perera at the end of the 30th over with India at 171 for three. Rohit Sharma (three) and Gambhir rounded off the empathic victory as India reached their target with a run rate of just over 5.5 an over compared to Sri Lanka's 3.79.
Earlier, after losing the wicket of opener Perera in just the third over, Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara shared a 50-run partnership before Sri Lanka lost six wickets for only 21 runs in just over 10 overs. But after slumping to 93 for seven, Chamara Kapugedera's 57 helped Mahela Jayawardene's side at least give the bowlers a total to defend.
IND vs SL, match 11, Hobart: India 180-3 (32.2 overs) beat Sri Lanka 179 (47.1 overs) by 7 wickets
India vs Australia at Hobart
Scores
India won the toss and decided to field
179 all out (47.1 overs)
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180 for 3 (32.2 overs)
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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Perera | b Sharma | 8 |
13 | 1 | 0 | |
Jayasuriya | c Dhoni | b Pathan | 34 |
44 | 2 | 1 |
Sangakkara | c Dhoni | b Kumar | 33 |
42 | 4 | 0 |
M Jayawardene | c R Sharma | b Kumar | 3 |
11 | 0 | 0 |
Silva | c Dhoni | b Kumar | 0 |
4 | 0 | 0 |
Dilshan | lbw | b Sharma | 8 |
12 | 1 | 0 |
Kapugedera | c and b | Harbhajan | 57 |
86 | 5 | 0 |
Vaas | c Gambhir | b Sharma | 0 |
7 | 0 | 0 |
Malinga | c Uthappa | b Sharma | 12 |
36 | 0 | 0 |
Muralitharan | b Kumar | 13 |
27 | 1 | 0 | |
Amerasinghe | not out | 0 |
1 | 0 | 0 | |
Extras | 6w 5lb | 11 | ||||
Total | all out | 179 | (47.1 ovs) |
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Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
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Uthappa | c Amerasinghe | b Malinga | 11 |
9 | 2 | 0 |
Tendulkar | c Silva | b Muralitharan | 63 |
54 | 10 | 0 |
Gambhir | not out | 64 |
90 | 5 | 0 | |
Yuvraj | c Dilshan | b Perera | 35 |
34 | 4 | 1 |
R Sharma | not out | 3 |
7 | 0 | 0 | |
Extras | 4w | 4 | ||||
Total | for 3 | 180 | (32.2 ovs) |
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Umpires: R E Koertzen, S J A Taufel
India: Uthappa, Tendulkar, Gambhir, R Sharma, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Pathan, Kumar, Harbhajan, Sharma, Patel
Sri Lanka: Perera, Jayasuriya, Sangakkara, M Jayawardene, Silva, Dilshan, Kapugedera, Vaas, Malinga, Amerasinghe, Muralitharan