Ind Vs Aus 2nd Final of CB Series Live Score - India elected to bat

India have won the toss and elected to bat in the 2nd final of CB Series at Brisbane Cricket Ground on Tuesday, 4th March 2oo8. Ishant Sharma is out with a finger injury that he had sustained in Sydney. S Sreesanth comes into the side in his place.

Australia also have made one change, bringing in Stuart Clark in place of Brad Hogg.

India looking forward to seek a happy ending to a bitter tour by clinching their first-ever tri-series title in Australia as they go into the second of the best-of-three finals of Commonwealth Bank (CB) Series against the world champions.

Australia is in danger of losing a tri-series that has been so important to the country over the past 29 years. It may be a last match for dynamic wicketkeeper batsman Adam Gilchrist and spinner Brad Hogg retiring from international will be a sad ending for them. By looking the current form of Australian team, an early and empty-handed exit would not be unexpected.

While Australia are low, India are on a massive high. The young team accepted many handshakes from local and Indian well wishers during their travel from Sydney to Brisbane on Monday and they were relaxed by their success. Tendulkar in his last tour of Down Under scored a century in the 1st final at Sydney, the environment in Indian dressing room is much happier than Australians.

Only three times have Australia lost the opening game of the home finals and come back to take a three-match series - twice against South Africa in the 1990s and once in 2005-06 against Sri Lanka.

Ishant Sharma (finger) and Tendulkar (groin) have nagging concerns - the batsman's injury has been troubling him for a while - but both are confident of playing.

India's Playing Eleven:

Mahinndar Singh Dhoni (Captain,W/K), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Shreeshant, Piyush Chawla.

Australia's Playing Eleven:

Ricky Ponting (Captain), Adam Gilchrist(WK), Matthew Hayden, James Hopes, Michael Clarke, Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Brett Lee.