The 4 most significant ODI wins for India outside ICC tournaments post-2000 

2. India vs Australia, Commonwealth Bank series, 2nd Finals, Brisbane, 2008

A young Indian team under MSD created history in Australia.

India's tour of Australia had been tumultuous with the Monkey gate episode and the poor umpiring in Sydney and Perth during the 4 Test series dominating the headlines. Amidst all that, while India had been playing good cricket, it wasn't enough to stop the powerhouse Australian team from winning the Test series 2-1.

The ODI triangular series had followed a similar pattern with Australia dominating India and Sri Lanka to enter the finals barring a minor slip up against India in one of the games, whereas India had to huff and puff their way to reach the finals.

It was also a new look Indian team with mostly youngsters that had just won the T20 world cup without the stalwarts Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. With all this considered, an Aussie win in the first two finals of the best of three final series seemed most likely.

However, the script endured a sudden turnaround as an inspired Indian outfit put in one of their best performances led by the legendary Sachin Tendulkar who churned out another century and an excellent half century by the highly rated newcomer Rohit Sharma. India ended up winning a rare match Australian soil to win the 1st finals and take a shocking 1-0 lead in the final series. But, it was still believed that Indians would find it difficult to back up that performance and Australia would turn it up a notch to win the next two matches.

The second match of the finals was played at the Aussie Fortress, "The Gabba" in Brisbane and on a bouncy wicket, the Indian openers Sachin Tendulkar and Robin Uttappa stood tall, getting India off to the perfect start. Tendulkar went on to score another superb 91 leading India to a very competitive 258-9.

In reply, the Australians succumbed to the brilliant swing bowling of Praveen Kumar and some electric fielding by an inspired Indian team. The match ebbed and flowed towards both teams before India finally held their nerve and won by 9 runs to sweep Australia 2-0 in the finals and lift the trophy.

The celebrations were wild amongst the Indian players almost as a let out of all the frustrations of the tour along with the previous defeats on Australian soil. A new look Indian team under their new and calm captain MS Dhoni ably lead by the mastery of Sachin Tendulkar had done the unthinkable of conquering Australia in Australia.