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For India, it's a bleak and depressing one. Three successive losses have cost them the series against a patchwork-quilt Australian side. Despite an appalling injury list, Australia have managed to hold their nerve at key moments. India have lapsed back into 1990s mode, with stellar individual performances like Sachin Tendulkar's 175 in Hyderabad expected to paper over collective weakness. That hasn't happened, and the pre-series hype of going for the No.1 ranking now sounds pathetic
For the second series in a row at home, they head to Mumbai, the heartland of Indian cricket, with the cause hopelessly lost. Back in 2007, Zaheer Khan and Murali Kartik pulled off a late show to give the scoreline (4-2) a slightly more respectable look, and that's as much as India can aspire to at the DY Patil Stadium. As for Australia, having won the Champions Trophy and now swatting aside the challenge of one of their big rivals away from home, this is a happy time, an occasion to revel in the success of a system that can produce stand-ins like Doug Bollinger and Clint McKay. Even with half the first team back home nursing injuries and niggles, they've been far too good
Yes, Sachin Tendulkar's 175 against Australia in Hyderabad last week was indeed the highest individual score ever made in an unsuccessful run-chase in a one-day international: the previous record was 149 not out, by Shivnarine Chanderpaul for West Indies against India in Nagpur in 2006-07. There have been only two higher scores in a losing cause in ODIs than Tendulkar's 175 - Charles Coventry's 194 not out for Zimbabwe against Bangladesh in Bulawayo earlier this year, and Matthew Hayden's unbeaten 181 for Australia v New Zealand in Hamilton in 2006-07
India Teams
MS Dhoni*†, G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, RA Jadeja, KD Karthik, V Kohli, P Kumar, A Mishra, A Nehra, MM Patel, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, SR Tendulkar, S Tyagi, Yuvraj Singh
Australia Teams
RT Ponting*, MEK Hussey, DE Bollinger, BT Cockley, NM Hauritz, BW Hilfenhaus, JM Holland, MG Johnson, AB McDonald, CJ McKay, GA Manou†, SE Marsh, AC Voges, SR Watson, CL White
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