India complete 4-0 clean sweep of Australia

India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after beating Australia 4-0.

India beat Australia by 6 wickets to complete a 4-0 clean sweep of the Border-Gavaskar trophy on Sunday, with Mahendra Singh Dhoni hitting the winning runs.

Australia had set India a target of 155 after folding up for 164 in their second innings. Cheteshwar Pujara top scored with an unbeaten 82, while Virat Kohli also contributed with a composed 41. Murali Vijay, Sachin Tendulkar and Ajinkya Rahane were all dismissed cheaply for 11, 1, and 1 respectively.

Australia’s spinners Lyon and Maxwell, who had lead a comeback of sorts in the first innings, proved less effectively in the second, both picking up 2 wickets apiece for 67 and 54 runs apiece.

Earlier, Ravindra Jadeja picked up 5 wickets, Ojha and Ashwin picked up two apiece, as they combined to restrict Australia to 164. Even that score was achieved by Australia thanks only to Peter Siddle, the No. 9 batsman again top scoring for the side with another half century.

Full scoreboard below:

	Australia 2nd innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	DA Warner	lbw b Jadeja	8	15	1	0	53.33
	GJ Maxwell	b Jadeja	8	14	1	0	57.14
	EJM Cowan	lbw b Jadeja	24	44	5	0	54.54
	PJ Hughes	lbw b Ashwin	6	23	0	0	26.08
	SR Watson*	b Ojha	5	11	1	0	45.45
	SPD Smith	b Jadeja	18	53	1	0	33.96
	MS Wade†	c †Dhoni b Ojha	19	38	2	0	50.00
	MG Johnson	b Jadeja	0	1	0	0	0.00
	PM Siddle	st †Dhoni b Ashwin	50	45	7	0	111.11
	JL Pattinson	b Sharma	11	28	1	0	39.28
	NM Lyon	not out	5	7	1	0	71.42
	Extras	(b 8, lb 2)	10
	Total	(all out; 46.3 overs)	164	(3.52 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-15 (Maxwell, 4.3 ov), 2-20 (Warner, 6.1 ov), 3-41 (Hughes, 13.4 ov), 4-51 (Watson, 17.3 ov),5-53 (Cowan, 18.4 ov), 6-94 (Smith, 32.1 ov), 7-94 (Johnson, 32.2 ov), 8-122 (Wade, 35.5 ov), 9-157 (Pattinson, 44.4 ov),10-164 (Siddle, 46.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	B Kumar	2	0	9	0	4.50
	R Ashwin	15.3	2	55	2	3.54
	RA Jadeja	16	2	58	5	3.62
	PP Ojha	11	2	19	2	1.72
	I Sharma	2	0	13	1	6.50

	India 2nd innings (target: 155 runs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	M Vijay	b Maxwell	11	12	2	0	91.66
	CA Pujara	not out	82	92	11	0	89.13
	V Kohli	lbw b Lyon	41	60	4	0	68.33
	SR Tendulkar	lbw b Lyon	1	5	0	0	20.00
	AM Rahane	c Lyon b Maxwell	1	5	0	0	20.00
	MS Dhoni*†	not out	12	14	2	0	85.71
	Extras	(b 9, lb 1)	10
	Total	(4 wickets; 31.2 overs)	158	(5.04 runs per over)

Did not bat RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, PP Ojha, B Kumar, I Sharma

Fall of wickets 1-19 (Vijay, 3.3 ov), 2-123 (Kohli, 23.6 ov), 3-127 (Tendulkar, 25.3 ov), 4-128 (Rahane, 26.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	NM Lyon	15.2	0	71	2	4.63
	GJ Maxwell	11	0	54	2	4.90
	MG Johnson	2	0	16	0	8.00
	JL Pattinson	3	0	7	0	2.33