Wade sets up 65-run win for Australia
Australia's mix of youth and experience worked to great effect at the MCG, where the debutant Matthew Wade scored an impressive half-century to set up a 65-run victory over India
05/02Result
1st Match (D/N), Commonwealth Bank Series at Melbourne, Feb 5 2012
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![Australia]( "Australia")
216/5 (32/32 ov) -
![India]( "India")
151 (29.4/32 ov, target 217)
Player of the Match
05/02Result
1st Match (D/N), Commonwealth Bank Series at Melbourne, Feb 5 2012
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![Australia]( "Australia")
216/5 (32/32 ov) -
![India]( "India")
151 (29.4/32 ov, target 217)
Player of the Match
Match Day
Someone, please explain the D/L method
I'm no mathematician. Messrs Duckworth & Lewis clearly have brains vastly superior to mine
Wade not looking too far ahead
Has Brad Haddin played his last one-day match for Australia? Matthew Wade is not allowing himself to think that way
Wade stakes his claim
Matthew Wade built on the fine impression he created during the Test series, knocking around India's bowlers in the first one-dayer of the Commonwealth Bank Series to help set up an Australia win in a rain-hit match
Warner swims at the MCG
Plays of the Day from the first ODI of the CB series, between India and Australia at the MCG
India beaten in battle of strategies
The plan to go in with a spin-strong attack is fraught with risk in Australian conditions, as India were made to realise at the MCG