India made a striking victory beating the mighty Australia by 5 wickets at the third ODI of the triangular series played at Melbourne on Sunday. This also marked India's first win at Melborne in 22 years.
Batting first Australia was wrapped up for 159 in 43.1 overs.
The Indian pacemen took the important wickets with Ishant Sharma picking up 4/38, Sreesanth 3/31 and Irfan
Pathan 2/26. Chasing 160 to win, India reached the target with 4 overs to spare and 5 wickets in hand.
With the top order collapsing again, Tendulkar took 44 while Dhoni and Rohit Sharma built a patnership of 58 which helped India with a safe win.
--MP
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