2007-08 Commonwealth Bank Series
| 2007–08 Commonwealth Bank Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CB Series Trophy
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| Date | 3 February 2008 – 4 March 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result |
 India Won by (2–0 in final series) |
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| Player of the series | Nathan Bracken | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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India
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 Sri Lanka
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| Captains | |||
| Ricky Ponting | MS Dhoni | Mahela Jayawardene | |
| Most runs | |||
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Gilchrist 322 Clarke 314 Hayden 298 |
Gambhir 440 Tendulkar 399 Dhoni 347 |
Sangakkara 326 Jayawardene 214 Dilshan 170 |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Bracken 21 Lee 16 Johnson 11 |
I Sharma 14 Pathan 11 Kumar 10 |
Malinga 12 Amerasinghe 9 Murali 9 |
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The 2007–08 edition of the Commonwealth Bank Series was a One Day International cricket tournament held in Australia. The Commonwealth Bank Series is an annual event involving the national teams of Australia, India and Sri Lanka. India won the event with a 2–0 sweep of the hosts in the final series.
The first two matches were shaping up for excellent contests after their first Innings. However heavy rain in Brisbane, caused by a cyclone in the Pacific ocean, saw the first two matches of the series abandoned. Australia was first to win a match in the series after a Sri Lanka collapsed in game 3.
Australia was the best team during the regular matches, taking 4 wins with bonus points. However India defeated Australia 2–0 in the best of 3 final series to win the tournament. This was the second time in a row that Australia lost their home tri-nations' series. In the previous year they had lost to England. Fast bowler Nathan Bracken was the leading wicket taker in the tournament with 21 wickets and was named Player of the Series. Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist and left-arm spinner Brad Hogg retired from One Day International after the second final.
Note:Ashley Noffke and Adam Voges are standby players.
Full statistics of the tri-series
Source: Cricinfo
India won the toss and elected to bat on what was thought to be a bowlers pitch due to earlier rain and high chance of further showers. Sehwag was bowled early by Bracken off an inside edge. Tendulkar was forced onto the back foot by Lee bowling short, and accidentally hit the stumps with his back foot to be out hit wicket, putting India at 2/26 after 6.3 overs. Gambhir and Rohit Sharma then combined for 65 runs taking advantage of wide and short bowling from debutant Ashley Noffke. Gambhir was dropped twice in the slips off Johnson, but Johnson eventually got him LBW which triggered a middle order collapse. Sharma fine edged Lee through to Gilchrist. Next to go was Tiwary who struggled against the pace of Lee and was clean bowled by a yorker. Uthappa then skied a short ball from Noffke and was caught by Clarke at point. India had lost 4 wickets for just 11 runs, collapsing from 2/92 to 6/102 after 26.1 overs. Dhoni and Pathan tightened up, determined to make sure India bat out the innings and post a competitive score. Rain then stopped the play with India at 6/128 after 36 overs.
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