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Another Aussie win

SURAT, DEC. 22. Fine bowling by off-spinner Lisa Keightley (four for 19) helped Australia defeat the Indian eves by 32 runs in their fifth One-Day International at Pithwala stadium here on Wednesday. The visitors have now taken an unassailable 4-1 lead in the seven-match series.

Electing to bat, Australia scored 160 for nine in the allotted 50 overs, with Karen Rolton (32), Bellinda Clark (26), Lisa Sathalekar (26), M. Jones (25) coming good.

Keightley was declared the `eve of the match'.

The scores:

Australia: B. Clark lbw b David 26, L. Keightley b Chopra 10, K. Rolton b Raffel 32, L. Sathalekar b Goswami 26, M. Jones b Goswami 25, A. Blackwell (run out) 13, C. Fitzpatrick b Raffel 3, J. Hayes c Jayat Sharma b Al-khadeer 0, L. Coleman b Marathe 8, S. Nitschke (not out) 1, Extras (lb-4, w-11, nb-1) 16, Total (for nine wkts. in 50 overs) 160.

Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-59, 3-81, 4-129, 5-134, 6-143, 7-144, 8-158, 9-160.

India bowling: Goswami 10-3-25-2, Chopra 6-1-23-1, Al-khadeer 9-2-23-1, David 11-3-39-1, Raffel 10-0-31-2, Marathe 4-1-15-1.

India: A. Jain (run out) 20, J. Sharma b Smith 4, A. Chopra c Keightley b Hayes 4, M. Raj c Clark b Hayes 36, M. Maben b Keightley 28, A. Kirkire c Nitschke b Keightley 4, V. Raffel c Sthalekar b Keightley 7, D. Marathe c Sthalekar b Keightley 1, J. Goswami (run out) 6, N. Al-khadeer b Fitzpatrick 6, N. David (not out) 3, Extras (w-8, nb-1) 9, Total (all out in 47.1 overs) 128.

Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-23, 3-46, 4-84, 5-89, 6-103, 7-108, 8-117, 9-121.

Australia bowling: Fitzpatrick 8.1-1-19-1, Smith 10-5-17-1, Hayes 10-2-16-2, Sthalekar 7-0-25-0, Nitschke 2-0-17-0, Keightley 6-2-19-4, Rolton 4-0-15-0. — PTI

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