Australia Record Run Chase at Gabba

A 50-50 call went India’s way but little else did as George Bailey again helped Australia pull off a record Gabba run chase, sealing a seven-wicket win in Friday night’s second one-day international.

Last game centurion Bailey (76 not out) helped Australia eclipse India’s 308-8 with six balls to spare in front of 28,851 fans.

Australia reached 309-3 after 49 overs to establish a 2-0 lead in the five-match ODI series. India looked to have reversed their fortunes when man-of-the-match Rohit Sharma (124) was adjudged not out on 89 despite a big knick to Australian wicketkeeper Matthew Made. It flew in the face of captain MS Dhoni’s view after the opening ODI loss that India were getting the raw end of 50-50 calls from umpires as payback for the team’s ongoing refusal to use the Decision Review System.

But India did not have much more luck, dropping Shaun Marsh four times as he set up the chase with a 145-run opening stand with Aaron Finch (both 71). India still gave themselves a sniff when Umesh Yadav bowled last game centurion Steve Smith (46) to reduce Australia to 3-244 in the 41st over. But Bailey picked up where he left off from his 112 in the first ODI to help Australia pull off the highest limited-overs run chase at the Gabba. The previous best was Australia’s 9-301 in January 2014 against England.

It marked the second straight game Australia had comfortably reeled in a 300-plus target set by India. Finch and Marsh put on Australia’s equal fifth-highest ODI opening partnership against India. Finch was magnificently caught by a diving Ajinkya Rahane at long on in the 25th over.

India had to try even harder to dismiss Marsh. Replacing David Warner (paternity leave), he was dropped on 19 and 69 and offered difficult chances on 22 and 57. His good fortune ran out in the 30th over when another simple chance was finally taken, this time off the recalled Ishant Sharma.

Earlier, Sharma backed up from his unbeaten 171 in Perth to notch the highest ODI score by an Indian opener at the Gabba and equal-fourth biggest overall at the Brisbane venue. He also shared a 121-run third-wicket stand with Rahane (89) and a 125-run second-wicket partnership with Virat Kohli (59).

James Faulkner (2-64) and Joel Paris (1-40) reeled in India, who lost 6-75 in the final 10 overs including four in the last two. The third ODI will be played on Sunday in Melbourne.

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Australia Beat India by 5 Wickets

Steve Smith made 149 as Australia beat India by five wickets in the first one-day international in Perth.

The captain added 242 for the third wicket with George Bailey, who scored 112, to help the hosts overhaul India's 309-3 with four balls to spare.

Earlier, India's Rohit Sharma hit 171 not out to break Viv Richards' record for the highest score by a visiting batsman in an ODI in Australia.

The second game of the five-match series is on Friday in Brisbane.

Rohit's 171 off 163 balls, containing 13 fours and seven sixes, surpassed West Indies legend Richards' unbeaten 153 in Melbourne in 1979.

Smith compiled his best ODI score as he and Bailey shared the fourth-highest Australia stand in ODIs.

It was also Australia's third-highest ODI chase on home soil.

Bailey, who joined Smith at the crease with Australia 21-2 at the Waca, should have been given out first ball when he gloved Barinder Sran down the leg side.

Umpire Richard Kettleborough rejected the appeal and India were unable to review it because they had not agreed to use the decision review system (DRS).

Smith and Bailey's stand, which spanned 37 overs, trumped the 207 added for India by Rohit and Virat Kohli, who made 91.

It was India's highest second-wicket stand against Australia, beating the 199 added by Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman in Indore in 2001.

Australia opener David Warner, who made five on Tuesday, will miss the second and third ODIs as his wife Candice is expecting their second child. He has been replaced in the squad by Usman Khawaja.

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Morgan Plans T20 Follow-up

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Stand-in captain Eoin Morgan is backing his inexperienced England Twenty20 side to follow the Test team's lead by upstaging India on their own turf.

Morgan will lead England in a two-match series starting in Pune on Thursday.

"We are going in as underdogs which is a great label to have with such a young side," Morgan told BBC Sport.

"I personally would back every one of them. In this cauldron that is India it's tough conditions, but it would be great to win these two games."

Morgan is captaining England's Twenty20 side in the absence of the injured Stuart Broad.

With regulars Kevin Pietersen, Graeme Swann and Steven Finn all rested after their exploits in the 2-1 Test series win,England's 15-man squad features seven players under the age of 24.

India, in contrast, only have three players under 24 in a strong squad featuring Twenty20 veterans such as Mahendra Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Suresh Raina.

Morgan, however is confident his team won't be overawed. He said: "It would be quite an achievement (to win the series) and the expectation on the guys is quite low.

"But a lot of our guys have been involved in the Champions League and played in front of the big crowds.

"Twenty20 is one of those formats where, at any stage during the game, you will be given a moment to stamp your authority. If some of the boys can do that, we will be in with a chance."

Morgan said he had taken advice from Broad and Test and one-day skipper Alastair Cook about captaincy.

"I've spoken to both of them and I've had great advice," said the Dubliner. "Most of them will be natural because things happen quickly in Twenty20 and we will have most of our tactics sorted pretty much before the game starts."

India captain Dhoni said his team's first home Test series defeat since 2004 would have no bearing on the Twenty20 series, which concludes in Mumbai on Saturday.

"It's a completely different format, so I don't think there's any point carrying anything from the Test series into this," he said. "You have to start from scratch every time."

India Twenty20 squad: Mahendra Dhoni (capt & wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Parvinder Awana, Piyush Chawla, Ashok Dinda, Gautam Gambhir, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh.

England Twenty20 squad: Jonny Bairstow (wk), Tim Bresnan, Danny Briggs, Jos Buttler, Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, James Harris, Michael Lumb, Stuart Meaker, Eoin Morgan (capt), Samit Patel, Joe Root, James Tredwell, Luke Wright.

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England Made to Follow-on

England were made to follow-on in Ahmedabad after being bowled out for 191 in reply to India's 521-8 on day three.

Left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha finished with 5-45 as England slipped from 41-3 at the start of the day to being bowled out just before tea.

When Matt Prior was last out for 48 - the top score of the innings - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni had no hesitation in asking England to bat again with the tourists still 330 behind.

Cook and Kevin Pietersen had dropped anchor during the first hour of the morning against spinners Ojha and Ravichandran Ashwin (3-44).

They had extended their fourth-wicket stand to 39 when Pietersen was once again undone by left-arm spin, Ojha bowling him middle stump for 17 with one that did not turn.

Ojha made it two in two balls when Ian Bell holed out to Sachin Tendulkar at mid-off after coming down the pitch to his first delivery.

Cook, having battled his way to 41 from 109 balls, was next to go, edging a flighted delivery from Ashwin low to Virender Sehwag at slip.

And just to pile on the misery, Samit Patel (10) received a poor lbw decision after seam bowler Umesh Yadav (1-6) had been brought into the attack for the first time shortly before lunch, which was taken with England on 110-7.

Prior struck nine boundaries and received some support from Tim Bresnan (19) and Stuart Broad (25) in the afternoon before Ojha completed his fourth five-wicket haul in Tests.

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Sehwag Ton Sinks England Hopes

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Virender Sehwag's century laid the platform for India to reach 323-4 on the opening day of the Test series against England in Ahmedabad.

Sehwag hit a run-a-ball 117 and Cheteshwar Pujara finished on 98 not out as India seized the initiative after opting to bat first.

Graeme Swann took all four of the wickets to fall, removing Gautam Gambhir, Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar during the afternoon session to peg back the home side to 250-3.

Swann (4-85) added the scalp of Virat Kohli after tea on a pitch that was already showing signs of wear but Pujara and Yuvraj Singh stood firm for the remainder of the day in a fifth-wicket stand of 40.

Sehwag and opening partner Gambhir had put on 134 in 29.5 overs as England went wicketless in the morning. Sehwag brought up his half-century from 44 balls with James Anderson (0-66) and Tim Bresnan (0-56) - preferred to Monty Panesar in the starting XI - taking the most punishment.

Gambhir was bowled for 45 in the second over after lunch, Swann straightening one from round-the-wicket as the left-hander looked to play through the off-side but Sehwag continued to play his shots, bringing up his 23rd Test hundred by lofting his 16th boundary - 15 of them fours and one six.

His scoring rate slowed in the aftermath of his milestone but it was still a surprise when he misjudged a sweep against Swann and was bowled.

Tendulkar, playing in his 191st Test, received a rousing ovation on the way to the middle but his stay was a brief one, scoring 13 off 17 balls before holing out to Samit Patel at deep midwicket shortly before tea.

Kohli was dropped at slip by Jonathan Trott off Swann on four but had only advanced to 19 when he offered a crooked bat at a delivery from Swann that turned sharply to hit middle stump.

Pujara had no such problems, showing exemplary technique to combat the threat of England's bowlers for 181 balls and he was still there at the end, two short of a century, alongside Yuvraj (24no).

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Australia Dominate Day Three

Australia continued to dominate India on the third day of the fourth and final Test in Adelaide.

The tourists began on 61-2 in reply to Australia's 604-7 but struggled against paceman Peter Siddle, who took 5-49.

Virat Kohli made his maiden Test century but was last out for 116 as the tourists crumbled for 272.

Australia did not enforce the follow-on but reached 50-3 by the close, 382 ahead, and look on course for a 4-0 series whitewash.

The one consolation for India - who have endured many struggles on their travels in the last year - is that skipper Michael Clarke's decision to bat for a second time on Australia Day will spare the tourists a third successive innings defeat.

With Sachin Tendulkar resuming on 12 not out as play began, attention was inevitably drawn to his long-running search for a 100th international century,having been stuck on 99 hundreds since March 2011 - but having reached 25, he became the first wicket of the day when he edged Siddle to Ricky Ponting at second slip.

Gautam Gambhir and VVS Laxman soon followed, leaving India 111-5 but Kohli, playing only his eighth Test despite being a fixture in the one-day side, led a partial recovery.

He was aided by wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha - making only his second Test appearance himself, deputising for suspended captain Mahendra Dhoni - who made a careful 35 from 94 balls, adding 114 for the sixth wicket with Kohli, before he was bowled by Ryan Harris.

With the target of 405 to avoid the follow-on looking far out of reach, Siddle returned to remove Ravichandran Ashwin and Zaheer Khan with successive deliveries.

Ishant Sharma survived the hat-trick ball and hung around to make 16 as Kohli completed India's first century of the series, before Sharma was yorked by Ben Hilfenhaus (3-62), who then trapped Kohli lbw to wrap up the innings.

Australia had 14 overs to face, but lost all of their rookie top three batsmen before the close.

Off-spinner Ashwin shared the new ball, and removed the openers in successive overs as David Warner chipped a return catch to the bowler and Ed Cowan was trapped in front.

Shaun Marsh, enduring a run of low scores, was adjudged leg before to left-arm seamer Zaheer without scoring, leaving Ponting and Clarke at the crease - with the captain in pole position to plan a declaration on the fourth morning.