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Craig HillAussies clinch 4-2 series win over India
October 18th 2007 02:30
Man Of The Series: Andrew 'Roy' Symonds
Australia has claimed the 7-match one day international series against India 4 - 2 (the opening match washed out in Bangalore) despite losing by two wickets in the final match.
The dead rubber match saw key Australian players rested, namely Mike Hussey and Matthew Hayden, but that was no excuse with full credit going to the Indian tail-enders when all seemed loss at 6-64 in pursuit of 194.
Zaheer Khan (31 not out) and the impressive Murali Kartik (6-27 and 21 not out) put on 52 runs for the ninth wicket to pull off the amazing escape act. Murali Kartik was awarded the man of the match.
Kartik collected career-best figures on what must surely be his favourite pitch with 6-27 - Hodge, Symonds, Haddin, Hopes, Hogg and Lee all mesmerised by his left-arm off-spin.
The favourable bowling conditions also benefitted the Australian pace attack with in-form paceman Mitchell Johnson (3-46) piercing the top order in a great display of swing bowling. He was ably assisted by Nathan Bracken (2-30) while Brett Lee took the prized scalp of the great Sachin Tendulkar.
Ricky Ponting and Robin Uthappa top scored for their teams with 57 and 47 respectively.
The match was once again marred by the hostile reception and racist taunts directed at Andrew Symonds by the Mumbai crowd.
Man-of-the-series Symonds preferred to look at the bigger picture and said: "It's an achievement to beat India in India and we're very proud of that."
Racism has no place in cricket, and sport, in general and we hope the ICC will take a stance on this.
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