Commonwealth Bank Series - 1st final
India won by 6 wickets (with 25 balls remaining)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c Yuvraj Singh b Kumar | 7 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| ML Hayden | c Chawla b Harbhajan Singh | 82 | 115 | 88 | 10 | 0 | 93.18 | |
| RT Ponting* | b Kumar | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| MJ Clarke | c †Dhoni b I Sharma | 4 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| A Symonds | c Kumar b Harbhajan Singh | 31 | 71 | 44 | 4 | 0 | 70.45 | |
| MEK Hussey | run out (†Dhoni/Pathan) | 45 | 87 | 67 | 2 | 0 | 67.16 | |
| JR Hopes | c †Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh | 15 | 40 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 40.54 | |
| GB Hogg | not out | 23 | 47 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 74.19 | |
| B Lee | c RG Sharma b Pathan | 17 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 170.00 | |
| MG Johnson | not out | 6 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, w 7) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 50 overs) | 239 | (4.78 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NW Bracken |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| P Kumar | 10 | 1 | 49 | 2 | 4.90 | (1w) | ||
| I Sharma | 8 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 4.00 | (1w) | ||
| IK Pathan | 7 | 0 | 63 | 1 | 9.00 | (1w) | ||
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 3.80 | (2w) | ||
| PP Chawla | 10 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 3.30 | (2w) | ||
| Yuvraj Singh | 4 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 4.50 | |||
| RG Sharma | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 |
| India innings (target: 240 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RV Uthappa | c Hussey b Hopes | 17 | 74 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 51.51 | |
| SR Tendulkar | not out | 117 | 235 | 120 | 10 | 0 | 97.50 | |
| G Gambhir | run out (Johnson/Hopes) | 3 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | b Hogg | 10 | 33 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 47.61 | |
| RG Sharma | b Hopes | 66 | 108 | 87 | 6 | 0 | 75.86 | |
| MS Dhoni*† | not out | 15 | 21 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 125.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 2, w 6, nb 2) | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 45.5 overs; 235 mins) | 242 | (5.28 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat P Kumar, IK Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, I Sharma, PP Chawla |
| Fall of wickets1-50 (Uthappa, 10.6 ov), 2-56 (Gambhir, 12.4 ov), 3-87 (Yuvraj Singh, 18.5 ov), 4-210 (RG Sharma, 41.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Lee | 9 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 3.66 | (2nb, 3w) | ||
| NW Bracken | 8 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 5.25 | |||
| MG Johnson | 10 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 7.00 | (2w) | ||
| JR Hopes | 8.5 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 4.75 | |||
| GB Hogg | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 5.42 | (1w) | ||
| MJ Clarke | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3.66 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series India led the best-of-3-finals 1-0 |
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Player of the match
SR Tendulkar (India) |
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Umpires
DJ Harper and RE Koertzen (South Africa) TV umpire BNJ Oxenford Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire GA Abood |
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Mar 2, 2008 Harbhajan Singh hugs Sachin Tendulkar © Getty Images |
Mar 2, 2008 Rohit Sharma cuts on his way to 66 © Getty Images |
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