Australia vs India 29/ 10/ 06
Why should the result of this match be surprising? After all, nothing out of the ordinary happened (that hasn’t happened in the last 5 years). The Australians came hard at the Indians, and after some promising resistance initially, they capitulated spectacularly. Sachin Tendulkar failed; after all it was a crunch match (more on this later). The bowlers, intimidated easily by Australian aggression, complemented their ineffectual gift-balls with consistent indiscipline (18 wides). Catches were dropped, distraught looks thrown…and a bad time was had by all.