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VADODARA - Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar's 84-run onslaught brought India to the edge of a sensational victory against Australia, but the hosts tripped in the thrilling final over and went down by a mere four runs in the first of the seven-match One-Day International cricket series here Sunday.

VADODARA - The following is the scoreboard of the opening One-Day International cricket match between India and Australia here Sunday: Australia: Shane Watson lbw b Nehra 5 Tim Paine c Dhoni b Sharma 50 Ricky Ponting lbw b Jadeja 74 Cameron White c Raina b Nehra 51 Michael Hussey c Kohli b Sharma 73 Adam Voges c Gambhir b Harbhajan 3 James Hopes run out (Sehwag) 14 Mitchell Johnson not out 14 Brett Lee b Sharma 0 Extras: (b-0, lb-2, nb-2, w-4) 8 Total: (for eight wickets in 50 overs) 292 Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Watson, 1.2 overs), 2-102 (Paine, 18.6), 3-151 (Ponting, 29.3), 4-227 (White, 42.2), 5-233 (Voges, 43.5), 6-256 (Hopes, 46.3), 7-291 (Hussey, 49.1), 8-292 (Lee, 49.6) Bowling: Praveen Kumar 10 0 77 0 (2w) Ashish Nehra 10 0 58 2 (1nb) Ishant Sharma 10 0 50 3 (1nb) Harbhajan Singh 10 0 57 1 (2w) Ravindra Jadeja 9 0 39 1 Suresh Raina 1 0 9 0 India: Virender Sehwag c Paine b Lee 13 Sachin Tendulkar c Ponting b Watson 14 Gautam Gambhir lbw b Johnson 68 Virat Kohli c Watson b Voges 30 Mahendra Singh Dhoni c Lee b Watson 34 Suresh Raina c & b Johnson 9 Ravindra Jadeja lbw b Hauritz 5 Harbhajan Singh b Siddle 49 Praveen Kumar not out 40 Ashish Nehra not out 2 Extras: (lb 10, w 14) 24 Total: (For eight wickets in 50 overs) 288 Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Sehwag, 4.2 overs), 2-45 (Tendulkar, 8.1), 3-103 (Kohli, 20.4), 4-167 (Gambhir, 34.1), 5-183 (Raina, 36.3), 6-186 (Dhoni, 37.2) 7-201 (Jadeja, 39.5), 8-285 (Harbhajan Singh, 49.2) Bowling: Brett Lee 6 0 28 1 Peter Siddle 9 0 55 1 (3w) Shane Watson 10 0 70 2 Mitchell Johnson 10 0 59 2 (5w) James Hopes 2 0 10 0 Adam Voges 4 0 22 1 Nathan Hauritz 9 1 34 1 Toss: Australia, who chose to bat Umpires: Amish Saheba (India) and Shavir Tarapore (India) TV umpire: Sudhir Asnani (India) Match referee: Chris Broad (England)

VADODARA - Scoreboard of Australia's innings in their opening One-day international cricket match against India here Sunday.

VADODARA - Australia's four top-order batsmen struck half-centuries to set up a 293-run target for India in the first of their seven One-day international cricket match here Sunday.

VADODARA - Australia scored 292 for eight in their first One-day international cricket match against India here Sunday.