[5] Day One Australia won the toss and elected to bat and after surviving playing and missing and edging some balls through the cordon, built a strong platform with a century opening stand before Phil Jaques was stumped on 66.

This also brought up 15 straight Test victories just one behind the record, held by Australia under the captaincy of Steve Waugh.

Day One India lost the toss again and Australia elected to bat, R.P Singh took Jaques for 0 his first ever Test duck in front of his home crowd.

On the hat-trick ball Kumble hit Symonds on the pads, sparking a big appeal from the Indian team, but it was not given.

The situation of the game meant that India needed a run rate of well over 4, nearly impossible on the decaying SCG pitch.

Captain Anil Kumble led by example after the Laxman dismissal scoring 45 not out and spending over 2 hours at the crease.

Virender Sehwag got his first chance in the series and played a typically attacking innings, providing the team with a good start along with Wasim Jaffer.

Andrew Symonds and Adam Gilchrist then put up an attacking 102 run partnership to engineer an Australian revival but were soon dismissed in quick succession.

The pacers then cleaned up the tail, overcoming a few minor scares from tailenders Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Tait.

Sehwag fell to Clark, while Brett Lee took the wickets of Rahul Dravid and Tendulkar, and Mitchell Johnson dismissed Sourav Ganguly.

Australia were set a daunting target of 413 to win—greater than all but one successful run chase in Test history to date.

Day Four Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey stayed at the crease for a major part of the morning session.

This triggered the fall of the Australian resistance, as they lost four wickets in the session after lunch (including the contentious dismissals of Hussey and Andrew Symonds).

Johnson himself made his first Test fifty and was involved in a whirlwind partnership of 74 with Stuart Clark, but once last man Shaun Tait came in at the fall of Clark, it was only a matter of time before India took the match; RP Singh did the honours with a yorker that went hit Tait's foot outside the leg stump and rolled onto his stumps, half an hour before the close of the day's play.

The Indians were particularly praised for coming back from two games down in the series to deny Australia a record seventeenth consecutive Test victory at a venue whose pitch has, over the years, proved to be the downfall of almost every visiting team.

[10] The defeat also end Australia's unbeaten streak in Tests at the WACA for 11 years after their 1997 loss to the West Indies.

India suffered a blow when Tendulkar's was the next wicket to fall, caught by Hogg off the bowling of Lee; his final score was 153.

He had ended up with 140 runs off 396 balls, the cautious batting reflecting Australia's desire not to be dismissed cheaply and risk losing the Test and a series victory.

Clarke had become the fourth batsman in the Test to make a century after he reached 100 in the over where Ponting was dismissed; he was out finally to Sharma, caught by Laxman, on 118 and Australia's score was 490/5.

His dismissal brought Gilchrist to the crease in what was looking increasingly like his last Test innings given that it was the fourth day and India were still to bat again.

However, any hope of final innings glory was dashed when Gilchrist was dismissed cheaply by a catch from Sehwag in the covers off the bowling of Pathan.

With Australia needing a cheap dismissal of India to have any hope of winning the Test, Sehwag put paid to this outcome by making a commanding 151.

With a draw being the only possible result, Kumble did the inevitable and declared India's innings over at 269/7, causing play to finish early.

The Commonwealth Bank Series is an annual event involving the national teams of Australia, India and Sri Lanka.

Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist and left-arm spinner Brad Hogg retired from One Day International after the second final.

The first of Bucknor's gaffes occurred when he did not give Andrew Symonds out caught behind at 30 when TV replays clearly showed that the ball had touched the bat's edge.

"[12] On the fifth day, Bucknor declared Rahul Dravid out caught behind though television replays later showed the ball had brushed his pad without touching his bat.

These and other umpiring errors created a huge backlash against the Australian cricket team for not playing in the spirit of the game.

This resulted in the Indians feeling hard done by;[17] the ban was later rescinded after an appeal before a New Zealand High Court judge.

[20] Indian captain Anil Kumble echoed the Bodyline quote, saying during an interview immediately after the match "Only one team was playing with the spirit of the game, that's all I can say.