Brave India fought to the death

Australia have beaten to India by 125 runs

India was set a total of 360 to win and it was a mountain that was just too high. Especially when Sachin Tendulkar went in the first over and the second over was a maiden.

In the end it was not meant to be for India. Australia were too strong on the day. Both teams were playing their 543rd International match but Australia have now won the World cup three times.

WORLD CUP FINAL Match stats

Australia - 1st Innings

Batting

Adam Gilchrist c Sehwag b H Singh 57
Matthew Hayden c Dravid b H Singh 37
Ricky Ponting not out 140
Damien Martyn not out 88
Extras 37
Total (50 overs) 359/2

India
Bowling
Zaheer Khan 7 0 67 0
Javagal Srinath 10 0 87 0
Ashish Nehra 10 0 57 0
Harbhajan Singh 8 0 49 2
Virender Sehwag 3 0 14 0
Sachin Tendulkar 3 0 20 0
Dinesh Mongia 7 0 39 0
Yuvraj Singh 2 0 12 0

Fall of Wickets : 1-105 (Gilchrist), 2-125 (Hayden)

2nd Innings
Sachin Tendulkar c and b McGrath 4
Virender Sehwag run out 82
Sourav Ganguly c Lehmann b Lee 24
Mohammad Kaif c Gilchrist b McGrath 0
Rahul Dravid b Bichel 47
Yuvraj Singh c Lee b Hogg 24
Dinesh Mongia c Martyn b Symonds 12
Harbhajan Singh c McGrath b Symonds 7
Zaheer Khan c Lehmann b McGrath 4
Javagal Srinath b Lee 1
Ashish Nehra not out 8
Extras 21
Total (40 overs) 234/10

Australia
Bowling
Glenn McGrath 8.2 0 52 3
Brett Lee 7 1 31 2
Brad Hogg 10 0 61 1
Darren Lehmann 2 0 18 0
Andrew Bichel 10 0 57 1
Andrew Symonds 2 0 7 2

Fall of Wickets: 1-4 (Tendulkar), 2-58 (Ganguly), 3-59 (Kaif), 4-147 (Sehwag), 5-187 (Dravid), 6-208 (Y Singh), 7-209 (Mongia), 8-223 (H Singh), 9-226 (Srinath), 10-234 (Z Khan).

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