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| Venue | Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane on 4th March 2008 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | India won by 9 runs |
| Umpires | AL Hill (New Zealand), SJA Taufel |
| TV umpire | BNJ Oxenford |
| Referee | JJ Crowe |
| Scorers | BL FitzGerald, JI Harris |
| Reserve Umpire | TP Laycock |
| Player of the Match | P Kumar |
| Articles | India take thrilling match to claim series |
| Pictures | Sachin Tendulkar celebrates his fifty |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | Dots | S-Rate | |
| RV Uthappa | c Hopes b Clark | 30 | 49 | 99 | 1 | - | 27 | 61.22 |
| SR Tendulkar | c Ponting b Clarke | 91 | 121 | 176 | 7 | - | 65 | 75.21 |
| G Gambhir | c Johnson b Clarke | 15 | 16 | 21 | 1 | - | 7 | 93.75 |
| Yuvraj Singh | c Hayden b Symonds | 38 | 38 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 100.00 |
| *+MS Dhoni | c Clarke b Bracken | 36 | 37 | 52 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 97.30 |
| RG Sharma | c Symonds b Clarke | 2 | 5 | 6 | - | - | 3 | 40.00 |
| IK Pathan | b Bracken | 12 | 20 | 24 | 1 | - | 13 | 60.00 |
| Harbhajan Singh | lbw b Lee | 3 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 100.00 |
| P Kumar | c Ponting b Bracken | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 4 | 100.00 |
| PP Chawla | not out | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | - | 0 | 300.00 |
| S Sreesanth | not out | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 50.00 |
| Extras | (5 lb, 12 w) | 17 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 225 minutes, 50 overs) | 258 | ||||||
| Fall of wickets: | ||||||||
| 1-94 (Uthappa, 20.5 ov), 2-121 (Gambhir, 25.2 ov), 3-175 (Yuvraj Singh, 34.6 ov), 4-205 (Tendulkar, 39.2 ov), 5-209 (Sharma, 41.1 ov), 6-237 (Pathan, 47.2 ov), 7-240 (Dhoni, 47.6 ov), 8-249 (Harbhajan Singh, 48.5 ov), 9-255 (Kumar, 49.3 ov) | ||||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lee | 10 | 0 | 58 | 1 | 1 | - | 32 | 5 | 1 | 60.00 | 5.80 |
| Bracken | 9 | 1 | 31 | 3 | - | - | 33 | 1 | - | 18.00 | 3.44 |
| Clark | 6 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 1 | - | 14 | 2 | - | 36.00 | 5.33 |
| Johnson | 6 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 8 | - | 21 | 3 | - | - | 5.50 |
| Hopes | 6 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | 21 | - | - | - | 3.33 |
| Clarke | 10 | 0 | 52 | 3 | 1 | - | 28 | 3 | 1 | 20.00 | 5.20 |
| Symonds | 3 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 1 | - | 7 | 2 | 1 | 18.00 | 9.00 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | Dots | S-Rate | |
| +AC Gilchrist | c Dhoni b Kumar | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 66.67 |
| ML Hayden | run out (Yuvraj Singh->Harbhajan Singh) | 55 | 68 | 122 | 7 | - | 42 | 80.88 |
| *RT Ponting | c Yuvraj Singh b Kumar | 1 | 7 | 9 | - | - | 6 | 14.29 |
| MJ Clarke | b Kumar | 17 | 22 | 29 | 1 | - | 14 | 77.27 |
| A Symonds | lbw b Harbhajan Singh | 42 | 56 | 81 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 75.00 |
| MEK Hussey | c Dhoni b Sreesanth | 44 | 42 | 66 | 3 | - | 16 | 104.76 |
| JR Hopes | c Chawla b Pathan | 63 | 80 | 105 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 78.75 |
| B Lee | b Kumar | 7 | 12 | 20 | - | - | 6 | 58.33 |
| MG Johnson | c Dhoni b Sreesanth | 8 | 6 | 9 | 1 | - | 2 | 133.33 |
| NW Bracken | c Chawla b Pathan | 1 | 2 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 50.00 |
| SR Clark | not out | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (2 lb, 7 w) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 231 minutes, 49.4 overs) | 249 | ||||||
| Fall of wickets: | ||||||||
| 1-2 (Gilchrist, 0.3 ov), 2-8 (Ponting, 2.3 ov), 3-32 (Clarke, 8.6 ov), 4-121 (Hayden, 25.4 ov), 5-123 (Symonds, 25.6 ov), 6-199 (Hussey, 41.6 ov), 7-228 (Lee, 46.4 ov), 8-238 (Johnson, 48.2 ov), 9-247 (Bracken, 49.2 ov), 10-249 (Hopes, 49.4 ov) | ||||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | Econ |
| Kumar | 10 | 2 | 46 | 4 | - | - | 37 | 5 | - | 15.00 | 4.60 |
| Sreesanth | 9 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 2 | - | 32 | 2 | 1 | 27.00 | 4.78 |
| Pathan | 8.4 | 0 | 54 | 2 | 4 | - | 24 | 4 | - | 26.00 | 6.23 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 1 | - | 33 | 4 | - | 60.00 | 4.40 |
| Chawla | 9 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | 28 | 2 | 1 | - | 5.00 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | - | 5.00 |