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There is one more stroke to World Champion’s pride today in Melbourne when Australian team couldn’t even touch an easy target of 222 runs put forth by Sri Lanka as all Aussies are out after making only 208 runs. Like this, Sri Lanka gave a magnificent defeat to Australia by 13 runs in the last match of CB series today on 29th February.

Australia was good at start and both the openers were playing carefully. Gillchrist made 83 runs from 50 balls. He was out by Kulkesra. Second opener, Hopes also played well and gave 28 runs but was out by Murlidharan. That time it seemed that Australia would defeat SriLanka easily. But there was turning point in the game. Sri Lankan bowlers snatched 5 wickets one by one.

Sri Lanka’s captain Jayewardene won the toss and decided to bat first. But his decision seemed wrong as Australian pacers didn’t allow them to play openly. First four wickets of Sri Lanka were soon down. Jayewardene’s 50 and Dilshan’s 62 run contribution led Sri Lanka to reach the goal of 222 runs. Other than these two players, C. Silva’s 35 run play was also said to be fine.

Although the match result is not going to effect on finals as Australia is already secured its position to fight with India in finals but this match was said as a trailor of Australian players to finals and they proved to be zero in it.

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India has lost the crucial game of the triseries today, 24 Feb, against Australia. Australia put a target of 318 runs for India winning the toss to bat first. Indian Team kept the hopes up to win the match but finally match went in Australia’s favor. Fantastic century of Gabhir and half century of Uthappa made significant contribution to reach up to 299 runs after a long battle yet victory remained far by 18 runs.

Kangaroos scored 317 runs in 50 overs for seven wickets. Captain Rickey Ponting has made a fantastic score of 124 runs. Symonds has secured 59 and Haiden’s 54 runs also contributed to achieve the excellent final score. But India became all out at 299 and couldn’t cross the target.

Ishant Sharma, the last player was bold out by first ball of Bratt Lee in last over. Sreesanth was not out after making only 3 runs. Before them, Uthappa (51), Harbhajan (20), and Irfan Pathan (22) has raised the hopes to win but all in vain.

Captain Dhoni was out by Bratt Lee’s ball after making 36 runs. Sachin, who is unsuccessful in Sidney test series couldn’t even show his magic in today’s match and was out (lbw) after making only 2 runs on Bratt Lee’s ball. Sahwag (18) also couldn’t contribute anything good to the score and was catching out by Gilchrist on Struart Clarke’s ball. Rohit Sharma was out on Braken’s ball after making single run. Last match Hero, Yuvraj Singh was catch out by Gilchrist on Clarke’s ball after making 5.

Australia lost its 2 wickets, Hopes and Brett Lee, in last over. Hasee was not out with 15 runs. Ishant bold Symonds (59) while Ponting (124) was caught out by Pathan on Sreesanth’s ball.

After Gilchrist, Ponting and Hayden together shine on the ground. Hayden was out after making 54 runs. After that Clarke made 31 runs and was catch out by Rohit Sharma on Sahwag’s ball.

After losing today’s match, Dhoni’s team must have to win Tuesday’s match on 26th Feb. to secure its position for final. All hopes are now on match on 26th Feb.

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Australia won today’s match against Sri Lanka by 24 runs. All the three teams had played six matches and according to points gathered by each team, Australia is at the top with 21. India secured second position winning two matches out of six. Two matches have been drawn because of rain. With this India is at second number with 12 points. Sri Lanka is at last position with only 6 points.

Now all the three teams will play two matches each, that means in total three matches will be played. To place India in finals, Team India has to win the match going to be held on this Sunday (24 Feb). If India will win this match then its point will be increased to 16(or 17 with bonus points) and after that Sri Lanka cannot cross Indians in this series whether Sri Lanka wins both the next matches.

Although if India loss the match on Sunday than Dhoni’s team must have to win Tuesday’s match on 26th Feb. And if bad luck continues to show on 26th Feb., than final result will depend on Sri Lanka-Australia match on 29th Feb. If Sri Lanka will win this match than Indian team will have to come back and final match will be played between Sri Lanka and Australia.

Hence it will be better if Dhoni’s team would not let the decision to go so far. Sunday match should be won by the team and Sri Lanka will be out of the game with this victory. Let’s see how much faith we can put on our team on Sunday. Good luck Dhoni!

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