Allrounder Shane Watson claimed his third successive man-of-the-match award as Australia swept past India by nine wickets in their Globe Twenty20 Super Eights clash on Friday night.

Watson (three-34) and 19-year-outdated paceman Pat Cummins (2-16) aided restrict India to 7-140 prior to Watson (72 off 42 balls) and David Warner (63 not out from 41 deliveries) spanked India’s bowlers all close to Colombo’s Premadasa Stadium.

Openers Warner and Watson shared a national-record partnership of 133 as Australia powered their way to 1-141 with 5.one overs to spare.

Watson hit 7 sixes, equalling a nationwide record set by Warner twice previously.

Irfan Pathan was the largest victim among India’s attack with -19 from one particular in excess of.

But it was India’s selection to perform frontline spinners Ravi Ashwin (-32 off three.five overs), Harbhajan Singh (-20 off four) and Piyush Chawla (-14 off one) that backfired in the wet circumstances.

Australia’s innings was interrupted briefly in the 1st more than of their run chase by rain.

“There was no real grip for them,” India captain MS Dhoni explained of the challenge faced by his slow bowlers.

“That was the principal purpose we have been unable to place pressure on them.”

Watson stated the Aussies had been prepared for India to play three expert spinners plus left-arm slow bowler Yuvraj Singh.

“India did go in with 3 frontline spinners so there is also a likelihood there’s going to be some rain around, particularly here in Colombo,” Watson mentioned.

“You’ve got to make the most of situations that you’ve received.”

Watson mentioned Cricket Australia’s choice to rest him from the one-day series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates in late August left him feeling refreshed mentally.

Watson returned to the national squad for the T20s against Pakistan in Dubai earlier this month, including 111 for the first wicket with Warner in game three of the series.

“I came off a 5-week break. It was a time I was capable to get some physical strength and fitness but also have a bit of a psychological break as well, to be capable to hit this Twenty20 World Cup operating,” Watson said.

“The games in Dubai were a brilliant lead-up for us to be able to modify to the warmth like we have here.

“At the minute a couple of things are falling my way nicely.

“We’ve surely received the top quality of players to be able to have a great deal of accomplishment in this tournament.”

Australia’s second of three video games in the Super Eights phase is against South Africa on Sunday night.

India have blasted their way to 3-321 in 36.four overs for a gorgeous bonus-level win over Sri Lanka to prolong their Australian tour till at least Friday.

Needing the improbable goal from forty overs to generate a reward stage win at Bellerive and retain their tournament alive, Virat Kohli smashed 133 off 86 balls to lead the Indians to the most remarkable run-chase witnessed on Australian soil.

Kohli, who strike 16 fours and two sixes, place on one hundred fifteen with Gautam Gambhir (sixty three off sixty four) and a hundred and twenty with Suresh Raina to blow the Sri Lankan strike away.

In an extraordinary 35th more than, Kohli and Raina took 24 off Sri Lankan tempo spearhead Lasith Malinga (1-96) to erase any doubt that India would reach the goal inside of the 40 overs.

The Indians’ up coming assignment will be the couch on Friday, when they will hope to view Australia conquer the Sri Lankans so they can progress to participate in the residence facet in the greatest-of-about three final sequence.

India might yet salvage a thing from a horror tour although batting wonderful Sachin Tendulkar, who served create the momentum for his facet with 39 off 30 balls, might not have but played his final recreation in Australia.

Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag (30 off fifteen) smashed fifty off just 33 balls to have the smattering of Indian supporters believing a wonder was achievable.

They ended up correct and the 3467 at Bellerive will go house recognizing they witnessed something specific.

On a drama-stuffed night, a power failure that rubbed out a single of Bellerive’s gentle towers, the scoreboard and the Nine Network’s broadcast devices, delayed engage in amongst innings for virtually an hour.

It was India who had looked out of energy previously though, a lethargic effort in the discipline allowing Sri Lanka to make 4-320.

Opener Tillakaratne Dilshan cracked an unbeaten 160 from 165 balls and Kumar Sangakkara a hundred and five from 87, the pair putting on a report second-wicket ODI partnership for Sri Lanka of two hundred.

Their 200 was also the most significant partnership in ODIs at Bellerive, although Dilshan equalled his highest score with the 2nd largest at the venue following Adam Gilchrist’s 172.

Indian hopes light when Sehwag spooned an tried swat to Dilshan at mid-off and, when Tendulkar trudged off to a standing ovation immediately after he was lbw to Malinga, it was 2-86.

Gambhir and Kohli’s a hundred partnership arrived off ninety four balls ahead of Gambhir was operate out by Lahiru Thirimanne at three-201.

There was no let-up with Kohli and Suresh Raina placing on fifty in 24 balls and one hundred in forty five.

Kohli stated he never doubted his side could reach the target.

“Clearly if you commence to get these kinds of ideas in your mind you’re not heading to be able to achieve it,” he explained.

“If you need 100 off the last 10 in a Twenty20 recreation it’s really gettable so we took it as two Twenty20 video games – get a hundred and twenty-130 runs in the initial 20 and then go for it later on.”

He said India would consider the very same practically nothing-to-drop mindset into the finals, if they make it there.

“We’re likely to believe every single game is the last for us,” he explained. “We’re likely to feel of each sport as a do-or-die for us if we reach the finals.

“We are going to be as expressive.”

Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene mentioned his aspect could bounce back again on Friday against Australia, who they overwhelmed two times already in the tournament.

“We have put ourselves in a circumstance that it really is in our control,” he explained.

“So if we are hungry enough to engage in in the finals we ought to beat Australia, simple as that.”

After helping Australia secure their place in the finals of the one-day cricket series, opening batsman David Warner says he’s surprised by how poorly India are playing given the talent in their side.

Warner found some form at the SCG to top score with 68 as Australia romped to a 87-run win over India on Sunday.

To have any hope of making the finals India must claim a bonus-point win over Sri Lanka in Hobart on Tuesday and hope the Sri Lankans lose to Australia in Melbourne on Friday.

After the Sydney match, Indian captain MS Dhoni spoke of his disappointment in two controversial umpiring decisions that went against his side.

Warner said it showed the Indians were desperate.

“We can see the desperation from the Indians this summer … they’re trying to get something out of it,” said Warner.

“They got beat 4-0 in the Test series and now they’re not doing too well in the one-dayers so they’re trying to appeal for anything at the moment.”

Warner rated the Indians as a world class line-up in all forms of the game and said he was surprised by their performance, particularly with the bat.

“They’re a very, very good team and there’s some serious talent in the side.

“They definitely haven’t lost interest, they’re always out there for a contest.

“They’ll find their form eventually, after this series.”

He believed the Indian batsmen were letting little things affect them, such as people moving behind the sightscreen.

“Little things are playing on their minds … so it’s obviously affecting their game.”

Warner believed one-day captain Michael Clarke would be available for Friday’s MCG clash after recovering from a back injury.

“He looks like he’s moving very well and I think he would have played (on Sunday against) India if it was a Test match,” he said.

“Hopefully we do have him back in the team but it will be a tough one for selectors.”

Warner was the most likely to make way for the return of Clarke but his half-century made a case for him to be retained as well as in-form batsmen Matthew Wade, Peter Forrest and David Hussey.

The 25-year-old said he was happy to make some runs and conceded he was still adjusting to the one-day format.

India’s cricket greats have begun talking about a topic that was regarded as unthinkable a 12 months in the past – Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement from the sport.

Or, at least, the need for the file-breaking batsman to quit 1-day global cricket to prolong his Exam vocation.

The debate has intensified after Tendulkar’s modern Ricky Ponting was compelled by Australia’s selectors to bow out of ODIs this week.

Ponting retired from the shorter format right after staying dumped from the ongoing tri-sequence, but vowed to fight on in the Exam side. Some want the Indian selectors to be just as ruthless and end Tendulkar’s a single-day career.

The Hindustan Occasions, discussing Ponting’s axeing, hoped that Indian cricket chiefs would discover from the “no-nonsense approach” shown by the Australian management.

“Indian cricket set-up needs to just take a cue from its Australian counterparts when it will come to pushing the seniors out,” the paper wrote. “If they have to consider a challenging get in touch with looking at the foreseeable future of the crew, the time is now.”

Former World Cup-successful captain Kapil Dev agrees that it is time to ponder hard options for Tendulkar, in spite of the adulation the “Tiny Grasp” even now commands throughout India.

“Perhaps his time has come,” Kapil said on the Headlines Right now news channel. “Each and every player has his time. Age is not on his aspect as it was previously.”

Tendulkar, who turns 39 in April, is not only the world’s major batsman in equally the Test and a single-day formats, but also the longest-serving intercontinental cricketer, obtaining made his debut in 1989.

Supporters have been still left on tenterhooks as Tendulkar, who has scored a record 51 Exam and 48 1-day centuries, struggles to reach the unprecedented milestone of a hundred intercontinental hundreds.

His kind has turned indifferent in the tri-collection in Australia, where he has managed just ninety runs in 5 games at an average of 18.

Previous captain Sourav Ganguly, who performed alongside Tendulkar from 1992 to 2008, explained his old teammate’s decision to decide on and select one-day matches was costing India expensive.

“Sachin has to request himself whether it is supporting him as a one particular-day participant or if it’s assisting the Indian crew,” Ganguly advised Headlines These days.

“If Sachin can’t get an solution to these concerns, he has to go.”

Tendulkar, who has performed a record 458 one particular-day internationals, has turned out in just 18 ODI matches in the previous two many years, which includes nine in India’s triumphant Globe Cup campaign in February-April 2011.

He nonetheless managed to record the very first double-century in ODIs — two hundred not out against South Africa in February 2010 — and was the star in India’s Globe Cup win with 482 runs, 2nd only to Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan’s 500.

Ganguly dismissed batting legend Sunil Gavaskar’s suggestion that the selectors should speak to Tendulkar about his a single-day future.

“I do not see any of the selectors stepping in,” Ganguly mentioned. “They are not heading to stand in front of Sachin Tendulkar and say ‘Listen little champ, you need to have to go’. That is never ever heading to happen.”

But the Hindu newspaper urged previous gamers to lay off Tendulkar, stating the choice to quit or not ought to be left to him.

“A lot has been mentioned — especially by former sportspersons who by themselves stayed on nicely past their use-by date — about Tendulkar’s ODI career,” it said.

“Whatsoever the intentions, these gems of seemingly timely guidance are evidently uncalled for. Sachin has served the country with excellent pride and genius for much way too prolonged and he deserves the correct to decide on his very own time of departure.”

A poll published by the Moments of India on Thursday said that fifty seven % of forty seven,000 respondents wished Tendulkar to give up a single-day cricket and 41 percent urged him to proceed.

In the rapid long term, Tendulkar has two chances to silence his critics — from Australia on Sunday and Sri Lanka following Tuesday — additionally a feasible best-of-three-finals, really should India qualify.

Dropping the ball nearly price Sri Lanka – following spinner Ravi Ashwin triggered a stir by holding onto it – prior to they clinched a crucial 51-run 1-day win above India at the Gabba on Tuesday.

Virat Kohli (66) was dropped two times and Suresh Raina (32) as soon as in an ominous 92-run fourth wicket stand ahead of India were dismissed for 238 in the 46th more than chasing 290 for triumph.

But a massive talking position arrived in the Sri Lankan innings immediately after India’s Ashwin attempted a Mankad dismissal.

He knocked off the bails as he came into bowl in the 40th about and appealed – with non-striker Lahiru Thirimanne (62) effectively out of his crease.

Thirimanne – then forty four not out – looked unimpressed as umpires Paul Reiffel and Billy Bowden conferred with Indian captain Virender Sehwag.

Sachin Tendulkar walked above and all of a sudden India’s appeal was withdrawn.

Late striking by Irfan Pathan (47) gave India some hope but it was not adequate to end them dropping to the bottom of the tri-collection table with two video games to play.

Sri Lanka (eleven points) overtook India (10) to path leaders Australia (14) with about three games to perform, commencing with Friday’s clash with the residence facet in Hobart.

Thirimanne aided Sri Lanka publish 6-289 off their 50 overs – a complete that looked properly past India when they ended up diminished to one- right after the second ball of their innings.

Sehwag – returning from damage to fill in for suspended captain MS Dhoni – swiped at a broad ball and was caught at 3rd man by Nuwan Kulasekara for a duck.

Male of the match up Kulasekara (three-forty) then inflicted a lot more damage with the ball in hand.

Tendulkar – still hunting for that elusive 100th global ton – impressed with a 23-ball 22 prior to dragging Kulasekara onto his stumps making an attempt to shoulder arms.

And India had been three-54 in the 12th over when Kulasekara had Gautam Gambhir (29) caught powering.

Kohli looked destined to be India’s saviour after he was dropped on 14 and 32 – each occasions by a hapless Dinesh Chandimal.

But his luck ran out when caught by that guy Kulasekara off Thisara Perera (four-37) and India never genuinely recovered.

Earlier, Thirimanne hit 6 fours in a fighting 63-ball knock after Sri Lanka won the toss.

Captain Mahela Jayawardene (45) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (51) ensured a flying start as Sri Lanka cruised to -95 by the 19th more than.

Thirimanne and late striking by Angelo Mathews (49 not out off 37 balls) ensured a tough operate chase for India.

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.

Mastermind MS Dhoni produced an additional Houdini-like escape as India tied with Sri Lanka in Tuesday’s a single-day match in Adelaide.

Just two days soon after his previous about heroics downed Australia, Dhoni’s finishing flourish practically sank the Lankans, who continue being winless in the tri collection.

Chasing 237 to win prior to just 5739 spectators, India necessary 4 runs from Lasith Malinga’s last ball.

The Indian captain belted the ultimate delivery about go over, but a diving save by Upul Tharanga stopped the ball brief of the boundary – but Dhoni concluded several runs to tie the match up with both sides scoring nine-236.

Dhoni (58 not out from 69 balls) capitalised on the previously fine innings of opener Gautam Gambhir (91).

Gambhir followed his 92 in Sunday’s win against Australia with yet another innings of compound, but it was Dhoni’s peerless last touches which stored India alive.

Just as he did in opposition to the Australians, Dhoni combined with Gambhir in a vital partnership – which netted sixty runs – until finally the skipper ran out his opener.

Gambhir’s cruel conclude arrived when Dhoni pushed to mid on, referred to as a single, then transformed his mind – leaving Gambhir unsuccessfully scampering to make his floor.

The 41st about run out left India wobbling at five-178, but Dhoni wasn’t rattled.

He whittled down the equation to 24 runs from the last two overs, and nine from the final.

But crucially Dhoni was off strike for two of the ultimate six balls.

Before, Sri Lanka’s increasing star Dinesh Chandimal best-scored with 81 in their middling total, with support from captain Mahela Jayawardene (forty three) and Kumar Sangakkara (31).

The 22-12 months-outdated Chandimal and his skipper showcased in a 94-operate partnership which rallied the Lankans following a sluggish begin – they were three-79 in the 20th more than.

But both Chandimal, whose polished knock next returns of 37 and 64 in Sri Lanka’s preliminary two losses of the sequence, and Jayawardene fell in 7 expensive balls.

Jayawardene was trapped lbw by Indian paceman Vinay Kumar, who impressed with 3-45 from ten overs.

And Chandimal perished in the up coming about, operate out to conclude his 91-ball innings.

Their dismissals had been compounded when Thisara Perera (five) was out two overs afterwards to the bowling of Ravi Ashwin (2-thirty from ten overs) as the Lankans missing three-eleven and all momentum, with their tailenders not able to end with a run flourish.

The tie was marked by controversy, with India’s batsmen facing 1 much less delivery than they should have – the 30th more than of their innings contained just 5 balls.

“I am not complaining,” mentioned Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene.

Indian captain Dhoni was remarkably accepting of the mistake.

“There was a 5 ball more than,” he stated.

“In the past what we have seen is the 3rd umpire interferes and you have to arrive back and bowl that ball.

“Generally that is what has occurred to us, it did not happen in this game – it truly is good enough, nothing considerably can be done now.”

Newcomer Peter Forrest and David Hussey posted half-generations as Australia set India 270 runs to win Sunday’s one particular-day match up at Adelaide Oval.

Forrest created 66 on global debut and Hussey leading-scored with 72 as Australia compiled eight-269 from 50 overs.

The duo highlighted in a 98-run partnership in a reshuffled batting order in opposition to an Indian side missing resting star Sachin Tendulkar.

Forrest batted at range four, veteran Ricky Ponting opened the innings with David Warner, and wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade slid down the get to quantity seven.

Ponting built just 6 whilst captain Michael Clarke, elevated to initial drop, arrived in sparkling kind and raced to 21 from his original thirteen deliveries in partnership with Warner.

But Warner, who was dropped on the third ball of the match up when Indian skipper MS Dhoni turfed an within edge, was operate out for eighteen in a blend-up with Clarke.

Warner struck a address push but Rohit Sharma, diving to his left, fielded as the Australian pair discovered their selves at the striker’s end.

Clarke produced 38 from forty three balls but was fooled by a slower ball from Umesh Yadav (2-forty four), edging onto his stumps to go away Australia three-81 in the 18th above.

Forrest and Hussey united for an innings-large partnership, with the debutant smacking two towering straight sixes.

After Forrest fell, caught at deep midwicket, the trustworthy Hussey, whose 72 came from just 76 balls, put on 56 runs with allrounder Dan Christian (39) at much better than a run-a-ball.

Virat Kohli cracked a match up-profitable 77 just before injuring his leg making an attempt a suicide operate in India’s four-wicket triumph over Sri Lanka at the WACA Floor on Wednesday.

India, chasing 234 for triumph, were in the box seat at 5-181 in the 36th about prior to Kohli’s try at a speedy solitary proved disastrous.

Not only was Kohli run out by Lasith Malinga’s immediate strike, the batsman damaged his still left leg in his sprawling dive and had to be carried off the discipline by two trainers.

The dismissal still left India with just 4 wickets in hand and needing a further 53 runs off 84 balls.

But tail-enders Ravi Ashwin (30no off 38 balls) and Ravindra Jadeja (24no off 28 balls) stored their awesome to raise India over the line with 20 balls to spare in front of a little but vocal crowd of 6685.

The profitable operate came in comical vogue.

Ashwin must have been caught immediately after skying Angelo Mathews straight up into the air.

But the two Sri Lankan fielders beneath the ball hesitated, and in the finish neither even tried to go for what would have been a basic catch.

The result gave India just their 2nd victory in what has been a attempting tour of Australia.

Sri Lanka will try to nab their 1st win underneath new mentor Graham Ford when they consider on Australia at the WACA on Friday.

Though India managed to grind out the get, Sachin Tendulkar’s bid for a century of hundreds of years proceeds to drag on following he was dismissed for 48.

Tendulkar, who was virtually rested for the Perth match, was in great kind before chopping all-rounder Angelo Mathews onto his stumps.

But it mattered tiny, with India reaching six-234 in 46.4 overs right after limiting Sri Lanka to 8-233 previously in the day.

Sri Lanka’s innings lacked firepower and exhilaration, with Dinesh Chandimal (64 off 81 balls), Tillakaratne Dilshan (48) and Angelo Mathews (33no off 28 balls) the only batsmen to get likely.

Indian paceman Zaheer Khan claimed the key wickets of Kumar Sangakkara (26) and Upul Tharanga (4) to finish with 2-44 off 10 overs, even though spinner Ravi Ashwin (3-32 off ten overs) also played a important purpose in restricting Sri Lanka to a small rating.

In an innings bereft of highlights, the most entertaining instant arrived in the 47th above when fieldsman Suresh Raina toppled about the top of a seated stability guard whilst attempting to conserve a boundary.

The boundary was saved and the two Raina and the stability guard were great.

“We were possibly 30, 40 runs quick of our goal,” Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene stated.

“We had a very good begin. We just had to have 1 more large partnership and we would have been 260, 270. That was our goal.”

India captain MS Dhoni was happy with the win, but mentioned there had been still locations his crew necessary to boost.

“I was fairly joyful with the efficiency but the batting section can nonetheless increase,” Dhoni explained.

“It was a two-pace wicket. Some of the balls weren’t coming through even though others were zipping previous.”

Rain stopped play early in Sunday’s one particular-day cricket match among Australia and India at the MCG.

Australia ended up in difficulties at 2-35 from 11 overs immediately after shedding the toss, with opener Matthew Wade unbeaten on 21 in his one-day global debut and captain Michael Clarke not out five.

Wade had quickly broken the shackles in the two balls just before the players still left the floor, hitting a six and a 4 off Praveen Kumar.

But they were rare highlights so much in this video game for the Australians.

Fellow opening bowler Vinay Kumar bowled David Warner for 6 and then selected up the prized scalp of Ricky Ponting for two.

Ponting turned away in disgust immediately after his free back-foot push went straight to Suresh Raina at cover for a straightforward catch.

It has been a day of terrible reports so far for Australia, with paceman Brett Lee ruled out for the complete a single-day series with a broken toe.

Lee suffered the injuries in Friday night’s Twenty20 reduction to India, also at the MCG.