My Favorite cricket match **Vol. 6 **

Sixth in my list of my Favorite cricket match is a tri-series played between India, Australia and Zimbabwe. This match is between India and Australia, played at The Gabba, Brisbane, Australia on 18^th Jan, 2004. India Lost the first match of the current series against Australia, So India require to today as they did the other day against Zimbabwe as well.

India has won the toss and has decided to bat first, so Australia is bowling first.

This is how Indian team looks like: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid (wk), VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly (c),Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Anil Kumble, Ashish Nehra,Hemang Badani, Rohan Gavaskar

The Australian team and 11 looks like: Adam Gilchrist (wk), Ricky Ponting (c), Andrew Symonds, Jason Gillespie,Brett Lee, Damien Martyn, Michael Clarke, Matthew Hayden, Michael Bevan,Ian Harvey, Brad Williams

India batted well and with the contributions of sachin tendulkar who made 86 runs in 95 balls with 8 fours with the strike rate of 91 and V V S laxman who made 103 in 113 balls with 8 fours and with the strike rate of 91 and Rahul Dravid making 74 runs in just 64 balls with 4 fours at the strike rate of 116. India made 303 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in allotted 50 over’s.

Australia need to target 304 runs at the rate of more than 6 runs per over.

Australia started very well with the Opening pair of Mathew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist and made a quick start and Michael Bevan and Michael Clarke also played their part but Aussies were not able to win the game and beaten by 19 runs and were bowled out on 284 runs in 49.4 over’s with Mathew Hayden making a fabulous century but to losing cause, he made 109 runs in 107 balls with 12 fours at the strike rate of 102.

V V S Laxman was the Man of the match for his match winning knock.