- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR8.4 chasing a ball away from his body, moved away thin edge and Dravid kept hold of this one 40/128 tries to sweep but it just lobs up to the short backward square leg 150/228.2 pushes forward takes the face to the keeper 152/347.1 tries to swing a ball over square leg just flies to the square leg fielding in a very tall arc 234/739.3 pushed to point, shot at stumps from Jadeja knocks 'em over and sends Lehmann on his bike 200/441.5 reaching forward driving pops up a catch to Singhs left takes a lovely caught and bowled 213/548.5 jumps down hits a low flat strike to long off 244/8Extras19 (b 1, lb 10, nb 3, w 5)TOTAL252/8 (50 Overs, RR: 5.04)Did not bat: GD McGrathFall of wickets: 1-40 (Mark Waugh, 8.4 ov), 2-150 (Adam Gilchrist, 27.6 ov), 3-152 (Andrew Symonds, 28.2 ov), 4-200 (Darren Lehmann, 39.3 ov), 5-213 (Steve Waugh, 41.5 ov), 6-227 (Michael Bevan, 45.1 ov), 7-234 (Ricky Ponting, 47.1 ov), 8-244 (Shane Warne, 48.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB J Srinath 10 1 43 2 4.3 3 0 BKV Prasad 10 0 29 2 2.9 0 1 N Chopra 10 0 62 1 6.2 0 0 A Kumble 9 0 48 1 5.33 0 0 RR Singh 8 0 41 1 5.12 1 2 SC Ganguly 3 0 18 0 6 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.4 hangs the bat outside off stump goes across the face to slip 8/141.2 jumps a little catching the batsman by surprise just flies an easy catch to square leg 167/65.3 launches a big drive dragged onto off stump 31/25.5 pushes forward takes a thin edge through to the keeper 31/36.2 trapped in front plumb missed the line of the ball by miles 32/413 fends lamely at a ball a bit closer to off stump but still fairly wide, just reaches after it and Kambli proves his ability against pace 44/548.2 Symonds takes a brilliant catch to cover a crap ball into a week at deep square leg 211/942.4 hit through point Chopra run out on the second 173/746.1 cross batted to mid wicket 198/8Extras18 (lb 4, nb 4, w 10)TOTAL211 all out (48.3 Overs, RR: 4.35)Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Sourav Ganguly, 0.4 ov), 2-31 (Amay Khurasiya, 5.3 ov), 3-31 (Rahul Dravid, 5.5 ov), 4-32 (Ajay Jadeja, 6.2 ov), 5-44 (Vinod Kambli, 12.6 ov), 6-167 (Sadagoppan Ramesh, 41.2 ov), 7-173 (Nikhil Chopra, 42.4 ov), 8-198 (Javagal Srinath, 46.1 ov), 9-211 (Robin Singh, 48.2 ov), 10-211 (Anil Kumble, 48.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB GD McGrath 10 0 55 2 5.5 1 3 JN Gillespie 9 1 26 4 2.88 4 1 TM Moody 10 4 28 0 2.8 0 0 A Symonds 7 0 32 1 4.57 0 0 MG Bevan 5 0 21 0 4.2 3 0 SK Warne 7 0 41 0 5.85 2 0 DS Lehmann 0.3 0 4 2 8 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
India , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Match days
28 August 1999 (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Match Referee
Points
Australia 2, India 0
Match Notes
- India were fined 1 over for a slow over rate
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