India vs Australia 2007, Third Match Review

Another match, and another defeat. As I mentioned in my previous post, this is most likely going to be a series whitewash. All the hoopla about the T20 World Cup win is over. Australia has completely dominated the first 3 matches and India been consistent in their shoddy performance in all three matches. The only spark for India was the century by Yuvraj Singh, more on that later.

Glichrist and Hayden started as usual, with Gilly taking the early chances. He was, however, clean bowled by a sweet delivery from Irfan Pathan and India had their first breakthrough. 76-1 was the score in 13.2 overs. Irfan struck again as he had Hayden edging one back to Dhoni and Australia were now 112-2. Ponting followed soon after. India had pulled it back after yet another 50 from Hayden. It seems that he goes into overdrive mode as soon as he faces India.

Clarke and Symonds were the two men that had to save the day for Australia, and did they disappoint? Absolutely…. not. The two put together a match winning 123 run partnership. Clarke got 59 and Symo smacked 89 from only 65 balls. Andrew Symonds was given the man of the match. He is definitely turning it on with a similar score in the second match as well.

India needed a good start. They did not get one. The hosts were 13-3 and the match was all but over. Sachin went into his shell. He scored 43 from 71 balls when he was bowled by Hogg. He had put on a decent 95 run partnership with Yuvraj Singh. At 108-4, India needed another 183 runs from only 25 overs. Dhoni was the new man and the skipper needed to play a captain’s knock. Yuvraj, in the meantime, had reached his half-century and he was looking in ominous form. If India ever needed a miracle it was going to be now. Dhoni and Yuvi put together a quickfire 65 run partnership from 11 overs, however, the required run rate kept creeping up.

Australia now lead the series 2-0 and with 4 more matches to go, this is looking to be a series whitewash.

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