Ricky Ponting hailed Australia’s bowling performance as a single of the greatest 1-day displays considering that the Glenn McGrath years as Ben Hilfenhaus returned to keep on his torment of India on Sunday night.

Replacing an sick Clint McKay for his first ODI in far more than two several years, Hilfenhaus led with a occupation-greatest five-33 to thrash the tourists by 110 runs at the Gabba.

Subsequent on from his wonderful red-ball kind in the four- Check sequence whitewash, the Tasmanian swing king also found the white ball to his liking to merge with Brett Lee (three-49) to rip through the Indian leading get.

The website visitors by no means recovered from four-36 chasing Australia’s five-288 and sputtered to 178 just before Hilfenhaus sealed the bonus-position win in the 44th above.

“It truly is a prolonged time given that I have observed an Australian staff bowl as effectively as we did tonight,” explained stand-in skipper Ponting.

“The way that we were ready to be aggressive early on with the new ball but at the very same time be able to restrict India from scoring boundaries was absolutely initial class.”

“The circumstances suited (Hilfenhaus) down to the ground nowadays … and I thought his manage early on, line and length, along with his aggression was really very good.

“We had their batsman underneath management from the very first number of overs of the innings.”

Indian skipper MS Dhoni delayed the unavoidable with a patient 56 but when he holed out to Hilfenhaus, in the 38th about, a reward position was in the bag.

The convincing triumph took the house aspect to the top rated of the tri-sequence table on 13 details – 3 forward of India (10), who will meet up with Sri Lanka (7) on Tuesday.

But it was not all simple sailing for Australia with Ponting once again suffering one more single-figure failure – his fifth in the collection to give him just eighteen runs at a terrible common of three.6.

But Ponting denied he needed a rest in spite of admitting he was turning out to be mentally jaded following a long summer season playing each Check and one particular-day match up.

Skipper Michael Clarke is due to return from a minor hamstring strain this week but his predecessor’s passion for the match remains as higher as ever.

“I’m not likely to set my hand up and say I want a break due to the fact when you are likely by way of a lean trot like I have the last couple of online games you want to be in a position to turn that close to,” he said.

Ponting struggled to find the middle of his bat and the gaps in the area in a agonizing 26-ball stay right after David Warner propelled the home facet to 1-70 with a breezy forty three.

Australia’s momentum halted with his innings and only an outstanding century stand by Mike Hussey (59 off fifty two) and Peter Forrest (52 off 71) put the home facet on monitor on a very good batting wicket.

Late lusty hitting by Dan Christian (30no off eighteen) and David Hussey (26no off 20) then delivered a tough target as they blasted 65 off the final 6 overs.

India, ragged in the field, copped a second blow following the match with Dhoni suspended for Tuesday’s clash in opposition to Sri Lanka for a gradual about rate, finishing two overs guiding schedule.