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Your browser may not support display of this image. Hyderabad: In Uppal, at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium Indian team will play ODI with Australia in Fifth ODI of the 7 Match Hero Honda Cup2009 .

At Mohali, Sachin was given a doubtful LBW in the Fourth ODI Match, he was run out at 40. Master blaster falls short of only 7 runs, if it would have been scored, he would have crossed 17,000 ODI runs

Today Indian Team is practicing hard to knock out Australians in Hyderabad. There is still a balanced situation i.e, 2-2 in 7 Match series, which might open a chance to win against Aussies. [smartads]

For both the teams, this match would be crucial but it would be a challenge for India to win on the grounds of this stadium as India had always losted the match on this field, so for auspicious effects, Captain  MS Dhoni had even prayed in a temple for India’s success.

In the midway through the ODI series injuries happened to some of the Aussies main players like Tim Paine, Brett Lee, Peter Siddle, Moises Henriques& James Hopes so they returned back to home.

Even though Indian player Gautam Gambhir was injured, he is geared up to play today& his comeback will give strength to the middle order. To achieve victory Skipper Dhoni feels that opening order will prove helpful.

Australians are under pressure to live up to their No. 1 title.

India Australia 5th ODI Schedule

Match begins at 14:30 local time (09:00 GMT)

Current time:   local, 07:48 GMT

Indian Team

G Gambhir, RA Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, MS Dhoni, SR Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, S Tyagi, V Kohli, A Nehra, SK Raina, P Kumar, MM Patel, I Sharma, KD Karthik, A Mishra, V Sehwag.

Australian Team

DE Bollinger, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, JM Holland, AB McDonald, RT Ponting, NM Hauritz, CJ McKay, SE Marsh, SR Watson, MG Johnson, CL White, BT Cockley, GA Manou, AC Voges.