Player of the Match
Player of the Match
2086dThe Report by George Binoy

India edge sixathon with Rohit Sharma's 209

It is an indictment of how skewed the contest between bat and ball has become that for 2961 ODIs, no batsman broke the 200-run barrier and now three have done it in the last 467 matches

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

RG Sharma
RG Sharma
209(158) 12x4 - 16x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 71 runs
  • 5x4 - 4x6
8 0 31 29 43 28 27 43
JP Faulkner
JP Faulkner
116(73) 11x4 - 6x6
Control %80%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 36 runs
  • 4x4 - 1x6
5 0 1 1 22 23 24 40

Best performances - Bowlers

Mohammed Shami
Mohammed Shami
O8.1
M0
R52
W3
Eco6.36
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
RA Jadeja
RA Jadeja
O10
M0
R73
W3
Eco7.30
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

Australia , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

India won the 7-match series 3-2

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

13.30 start, First Session 13.30-17.00, Interval 17.00-17.45, Second Session 17.45-21.15

Match days

2 November 2013 - day/night match (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: Binoy George | Commentator: Vishal DikshitB

That's all we have for you all today, it was great to have yo here and we'll look forward to more feedback as India head to Kolkata for the Test against West Indies and Australia will go back home for the Ashes. Till then, it's goodbye from Vishal Dikshit on behalf of Devashish and scorer Binoy George. Ta ta!

9.42pm Dhawan is being mobbed by team-mates, Dhoni uproots the stumps and runs away in celebration, Rohit gets one too as the batsmen's series comes to an end in India's favour. Faulkner was having a word with the umpires after the dismissal, he was clearly unhappy about something. Rohit left everyone in awe, no doubt, but what an effort from James Faulkner. It was his first hundred - domestic or international - and if Australia had more wickets, he would have probably taken them home.

Prabbu Raj Menon: "i cant blame pitches or small grounds ... its purely rubbish bowling by both teams"

harshit srivastava: "faulkner will be the better allrounder for ashes than others."

Time for the presentation:

George Bailey: We went pretty close there but outstanding innings from Rohit. We were probably ahead at one point of time but didn't have enough wickets. Faulkner and Maxwell played excellent cameos. We knew it would be tough they are the No. 1 and it's been a wonderful series. Plenty of positives, the one-day cricket we were playing 18 months wasn't great and we are certainly on track now.

Rohit Sharma is Man of the Match and Series: I didn't really think of the 200 initially. Right from ball one I wanted to stay there. It was a small ground with a fast outfield, we knew it was going to be a big-scoring game keeping the wickets in hand. We always spoke about building small parnterhsips and we had two big ones today. It's been our strength throughout the series so it was heartening to see that. You never know, even 380 wasn't looking comfortable. Credit goes to Dhawan and Virat as well, they played very well throughout the series, we showed real character. I'm enjoying opening at the moment, just want to keep continuing and want to continue fresh. I'm looking forward to the West Indies series now and I didn't know about the 16 sixes record.

MS Dhoni: There was a moment when we were under pressure after losing 2-3 quick wickets. It became a little difficult and we wanted to sore 300 and explode from there. 383 wasn't on our mind but Rohit batted very well. This ground has the reputation for batsmen hitting more sixes than fours, especially when you see Gayle and Virat batting in the IPL. It's difficult to contain the batsmen here. Our Batting has been fantastic, openers have done very well but it would have been good if middle order got a few more runs. Apart form the one game, we scored in each and every game. We have to improve in bowling, something we wanted to do on a team level also. We have chased 350+ twice but nobody talks about the Australian bowling line-up. Fantastic series overall, Australia played very well and the wickets were good. the amount of crowd that came was fantastic.

45.1
W
Mohammed Shami to Faulkner, OUT, full toss gets a wicket and it's all over! It was there to be put away, Faulkner hit it a long way in the air and Dhawan ran to his right from deep midwicket to take a diving catch to finish the match

JP Faulkner c Dhawan b Mohammed Shami 116 (107m 73b 11x4 6x6) SR: 158.90

58 runs, five overs, 1 wicket

END OF OVER:
45 | 3 Runs 1 Wkt | AUS: 326/9 (58 runs required from 30 balls, RR: 7.24, RRR: 11.60)

  • James Faulkner116 (72b)
  • Ravindra Jadeja10-0-73-3
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar8-1-47-0
44.6
W
Jadeja to McKay, OUT, beat him! It was on length on off again, McKay came forward to defend but played the wrong line and it just beat the outside edge to hit the off stump. Jadeja breaks the big partnership of 115 on the last ball of his spell

CJ McKay b Jadeja 18 (65m 37b 3x4 0x6) SR: 48.64

44.5
0
Jadeja to McKay, no run, full on off, McKay comes forward to defend
44.4
1
Jadeja to Faulkner, 1 run, flat outside leg again, he connects but gets only a single to deep midwicket
44.3
0
Jadeja to Faulkner, no run, flat ball down leg, he made room to pull it but misses and goes between the batsman and the stumps
44.2
1
Jadeja to McKay, 1 run, full ont he stumps, pushed down to long-on

Round the wicket with a slip

Australia 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st7AJ FinchPJ Hughes
2nd57BJ HaddinPJ Hughes
3rd6BJ HaddinGJ Bailey
4th4BJ HaddinAC Voges
5th58AC VogesGJ Maxwell
6th6JP FaulknerGJ Maxwell
7th67SR WatsonJP Faulkner
8th6NM Coulter-NileJP Faulkner
9th115CJ McKayJP Faulkner
10th0XJ DohertyJP Faulkner