India complete 4-0 clean sweep of Australia
India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after beating Australia 4-0.
India beat Australia by 6 wickets to complete a 4-0 clean sweep of the Border-Gavaskar trophy on Sunday, with Mahendra Singh Dhoni hitting the winning runs.
Australia had set India a target of 155 after folding up for 164 in their second innings. Cheteshwar Pujara top scored with an unbeaten 82, while Virat Kohli also contributed with a composed 41. Murali Vijay, Sachin Tendulkar and Ajinkya Rahane were all dismissed cheaply for 11, 1, and 1 respectively.
Australia’s spinners Lyon and Maxwell, who had lead a comeback of sorts in the first innings, proved less effectively in the second, both picking up 2 wickets apiece for 67 and 54 runs apiece.
Earlier, Ravindra Jadeja picked up 5 wickets, Ojha and Ashwin picked up two apiece, as they combined to restrict Australia to 164. Even that score was achieved by Australia thanks only to Peter Siddle, the No. 9 batsman again top scoring for the side with another half century.
Full scoreboard below:
| Australia 2nd innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| DA Warner | lbw b Jadeja | 8 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 53.33 | ||
| GJ Maxwell | b Jadeja | 8 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 57.14 | ||
| EJM Cowan | lbw b Jadeja | 24 | 44 | 5 | 0 | 54.54 | ||
| PJ Hughes | lbw b Ashwin | 6 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 26.08 | ||
| SR Watson* | b Ojha | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 45.45 | ||
| SPD Smith | b Jadeja | 18 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 33.96 | ||
| MS Wade† | c †Dhoni b Ojha | 19 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | ||
| MG Johnson | b Jadeja | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| PM Siddle | st †Dhoni b Ashwin | 50 | 45 | 7 | 0 | 111.11 | ||
| JL Pattinson | b Sharma | 11 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 39.28 | ||
| NM Lyon | not out | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 71.42 | ||
| Extras | (b 8, lb 2) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 46.3 overs) | 164 | (3.52 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-15 (Maxwell, 4.3 ov), 2-20 (Warner, 6.1 ov), 3-41 (Hughes, 13.4 ov), 4-51 (Watson, 17.3 ov),5-53 (Cowan, 18.4 ov), 6-94 (Smith, 32.1 ov), 7-94 (Johnson, 32.2 ov), 8-122 (Wade, 35.5 ov), 9-157 (Pattinson, 44.4 ov),10-164 (Siddle, 46.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Kumar | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4.50 | |||
| R Ashwin | 15.3 | 2 | 55 | 2 | 3.54 | |||
| RA Jadeja | 16 | 2 | 58 | 5 | 3.62 | |||
| PP Ojha | 11 | 2 | 19 | 2 | 1.72 | |||
| I Sharma | 2 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 6.50 |
| India 2nd innings (target: 155 runs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| M Vijay | b Maxwell | 11 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 91.66 | ||
| CA Pujara | not out | 82 | 92 | 11 | 0 | 89.13 | ||
| V Kohli | lbw b Lyon | 41 | 60 | 4 | 0 | 68.33 | ||
| SR Tendulkar | lbw b Lyon | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | ||
| AM Rahane | c Lyon b Maxwell | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | ||
| MS Dhoni*† | not out | 12 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 85.71 | ||
| Extras | (b 9, lb 1) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 31.2 overs) | 158 | (5.04 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, PP Ojha, B Kumar, I Sharma |
| Fall of wickets 1-19 (Vijay, 3.3 ov), 2-123 (Kohli, 23.6 ov), 3-127 (Tendulkar, 25.3 ov), 4-128 (Rahane, 26.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| NM Lyon | 15.2 | 0 | 71 | 2 | 4.63 | |||
| GJ Maxwell | 11 | 0 | 54 | 2 | 4.90 | |||
| MG Johnson | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| JL Pattinson | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2.33 |