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Brisbane: Despite a scintillating century from Rohit Sharma and some stupendous battinf from Ajinkya Rahane, India bowlers once again failed to defend a formidable total of 308, as Australia defeated India by seven wickets in the second One day International (ODI) at the Gabba here on Friday.<\/p>\n
This was Australia’s second consecutive win and the hosts have taken a 2-0 lead in the five-ODI series.<\/p>\n
George Bailey, who was unbeaten on 76, was the highest scorer for Australia while openers Aaron Finch and Shaun Marsh (both 71) also batted well.<\/p>\n
Scores:<\/strong> Australia 3 for 309 (Bailey 76*, Marsh 71, Finch 71) beat India 8 for 308 (Rohit 124, Rahane 89, Kohli 59) by 7 wickets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was Australia’s second consecutive win and the hosts have taken a 2-0 lead in the five-ODI series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3475,1557,4744,2204,13637,724,3231,542],"class_list":["post-25163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-aaron-finch","tag-ajinkya-rahane","tag-cricket-news","tag-george-bailey","tag-india-vs-australia-odi","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-shaun-marsh","tag-virat-kohli"],"yoast_head":"\nBrisbane: Despite a scintillating century from Rohit Sharma and some stupendous battinf from Ajinkya Rahane, India bowlers once again failed to defend a formidable total of 308, as Australia defeated India by seven wickets in the second One day International (ODI) at the Gabba here on Friday.<\/p>\n