VB Series - 7th match
Australia won by 2 wickets (with 1 ball remaining) (D/L method)
| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SC Ganguly* | c †Gilchrist b Lee | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 | |
| PA Patel† | c †Gilchrist b Gillespie | 28 | 64 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 84.84 | |
| VVS Laxman | not out | 106 | 219 | 130 | 5 | 0 | 81.53 | |
| R Dravid | c †Gilchrist b Bichel | 12 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 171.42 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | b Lee | 139 | 143 | 122 | 16 | 2 | 113.93 | |
| RS Gavaskar | not out | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 5, nb 2) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 50 overs; 227 mins) | 296 | (5.92 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat HK Badani, AB Agarkar, M Kartik, IK Pathan, L Balaji |
| Fall of wickets1-1 (Ganguly, 1.3 ov), 2-63 (Patel, 12.6 ov), 3-80 (Dravid, 15.2 ov), 4-293 (Yuvraj Singh, 49.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JN Gillespie | 10 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 5.00 | (1nb) | ||
| B Lee | 9 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 5.11 | (1nb, 3w) | ||
| AJ Bichel | 9 | 0 | 60 | 1 | 6.66 | |||
| IJ Harvey | 10 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 6.80 | |||
| A Symonds | 7 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 6.00 | (1w) | ||
| MJ Clarke | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 5.80 | (1w) |
| Australia innings (target: 225 runs from 34 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c & b Kartik | 95 | 111 | 72 | 14 | 1 | 131.94 | |
| SM Katich | c Ganguly b Pathan | 2 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| RT Ponting* | c †Patel b Pathan | 42 | 87 | 54 | 3 | 1 | 77.77 | |
| DR Martyn | c †Patel b Pathan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| A Symonds | c Agarkar b Ganguly | 16 | 23 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| MG Bevan | b Ganguly | 12 | 34 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| MJ Clarke | c Badani b Ganguly | 21 | 33 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 105.00 | |
| IJ Harvey | run out (Agarkar/Ganguly) | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| AJ Bichel | not out | 2 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| B Lee | not out | 12 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 133.33 | |
| Extras | (lb 7, w 15) | 22 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 33.5 overs; 172 mins) | 225 | (6.65 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JN Gillespie |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AB Agarkar | 7 | 1 | 47 | 0 | 6.71 | (4w) | ||
| IK Pathan | 7 | 1 | 51 | 3 | 7.28 | (6w) | ||
| L Balaji | 5.5 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 6.85 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 7 | 0 | 41 | 3 | 5.85 | (1w) | ||
| M Kartik | 7 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 5.57 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Points Australia 5, India 1 |
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Player of the match
Yuvraj Singh (India) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and DJ Harper TV umpire SJA Taufel Match referee CH Lloyd (West Indies) |
| Match notes |
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Jan 23, 2004 Murali Kartik spins in the air © Getty Images |
Jan 22, 2004 Brett Lee ends the game on the same successful note with which he started it © Getty Images |
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