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| Venue | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney on 24th February 2008 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 18 runs |
| Points | Australia 4; India 0 |
| Umpires | DJ Harper, AL Hill (New Zealand) |
| TV umpire | BNJ Oxenford |
| Referee | JJ Crowe |
| Scorers | CL Bennison, RL Sanday |
| Reserve Umpire | RD Goodger |
| Player of the Match | RT Ponting |
| Articles | Australia fined for slow over-rate in Sydney |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | c Dhoni b Sreesanth | 16 | 7 | 12 | 3 | - | 228.57 |
| ML Hayden | run out (RG Sharma->Sehwag) | 54 | 62 | 98 | 5 | 1 | 87.10 |
| *RT Ponting | c Pathan b Sreesanth | 124 | 133 | 190 | 7 | 1 | 93.23 |
| MJ Clarke | c RG Sharma b Sehwag | 31 | 37 | 41 | - | - | 83.78 |
| A Symonds | b I Sharma | 59 | 49 | 54 | 6 | 2 | 120.41 |
| MEK Hussey | not out | 15 | 10 | 14 | - | - | 150.00 |
| JR Hopes | run out (Harbhajan Singh) | 4 | 3 | 8 | - | - | 133.33 |
| B Lee | run out (Harbhajan Singh) | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GB Hogg | did not bat | ||||||
| NW Bracken | did not bat | ||||||
| SR Clark | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 1 nb, 8 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 213 minutes, 50 overs) | 317 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21 (Gilchrist, 2.3 ov), 2-131 (Hayden, 20.3 ov), 3-194 (Clarke, 31.5 ov), 4-296 (Symonds, 47.2 ov), 5-304 (Ponting, 48.1 ov), 6-317 (Hopes, 49.5 ov), 7-317 (Lee, 50 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Sreesanth | 8 | 0 | 58 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 7.25 |
| I Sharma | 10 | 0 | 65 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 6.50 |
| Pathan | 9 | 0 | 73 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 8.11 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 9 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.56 |
| Sehwag | 6 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 4 | - | 36.00 | 4.67 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 8 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.75 |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| V Sehwag | c Gilchrist b Clark | 17 | 19 | 39 | 3 | - | 89.47 |
| SR Tendulkar | lbw b Lee | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 66.67 |
| G Gambhir | st Gilchrist b Hogg | 113 | 119 | 177 | 9 | 1 | 94.96 |
| RG Sharma | c Gilchrist b Bracken | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Yuvraj Singh | c Gilchrist b Clark | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | - | 166.67 |
| *+MS Dhoni | c Gilchrist b Lee | 36 | 66 | 84 | 4 | - | 54.55 |
| RV Uthappa | c Hussey b Lee | 51 | 46 | 88 | 4 | 1 | 110.87 |
| IK Pathan | c Bracken b Hopes | 22 | 21 | 25 | 2 | - | 104.76 |
| Harbhajan Singh | c Gilchrist b Lee | 20 | 11 | 16 | 3 | - | 181.82 |
| S Sreesanth | not out | 3 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 75.00 |
| I Sharma | b Lee | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 50.00 |
| Extras | (6 b, 5 lb, 4 nb, 12 w) | 27 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 233 minutes, 49.1 overs) | 299 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Tendulkar, 0.5 ov), 2-45 (Sehwag, 8.4 ov), 3-46 (RG Sharma, 9.1 ov), 4-51 (Yuvraj Singh, 10.2 ov), 5-149 (Dhoni, 30.3 ov), 6-216 (Gambhir, 39.1 ov), 7-257 (Pathan, 44.5 ov), 8-290 (Harbhajan Singh, 47.4 ov), 9-290 (Uthappa, 47.5 ov), 10-299 (I Sharma, 49.1 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lee | 9.1 | 1 | 58 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11.00 | 6.33 |
| Bracken | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 5.30 |
| Clark | 10 | 0 | 55 | 2 | 8 | - | 30.00 | 5.50 |
| Hopes | 6 | 0 | 27 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 4.50 |
| Hogg | 9 | 0 | 62 | 1 | - | 1 | 54.00 | 6.89 |
| Clarke | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.60 |