India slumped to last spot in the Commonwealth Bank tri-series as their win-less run extended to three matches, beaten by 51 runs by Sri Lanka in the 8th match of the series in Brisbane on Tuesday. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored a massive 289/6 with useful contributions both up and down the order. Lahiru Thirimanne top scored with a slightly controversial 62, while Angelo Mathews did the damage late in the innings making an unbeaten 49 from 37 deliveries. India got off to a poor start, and lost wickets at regular intervals, puttbing themselves under tremendous pressure in a tough run chase. A useful partnership worth 92 between Virat Kohli (66) and Suresh Raina (32) gave India a slight chance, and despite an entertaining cameo from Irfan Pathan (46 from 33b), Sri Lanka always had their noses ahead in this contest.

Sri Lanka won the toss at Brisbane this morning and unsurprisingly opted to make immediate use of the best batting conditions available. The Lankans were unchanged from the side that thumped Australia by 8-wickets a few days ago in Adelaide, while the Indians made three changes to their starting eleven. Virender Sehwag came back in to captain the side in place of the suspended MS Dhoni, while also meant that someone needed to make way for wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel. The Indians decided to stick with the three 'seniors' at the top of the order, giving young Rohit Sharma the day off. Zaheer Khan also returned to the bench with India recalling a specialist spinner in R Ashwin.

A stellar showing from Ricky Ponting in the Test series against India earler this summer might have prolonged the veteran batsman's career, but his time as a one-day international cricketer seems to have drawn to a close with the Australian selectors dropping the former skipper due to poor form in the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tri-series. On Monday morning, the National Selection Panel named the squad for the next couple of games in the series and have recalled allrounder Shane Watson to the 13-man squad, while also declaring that Matthew Wade will retain his place ahead of Brad Haddin as first choice Aussie ODI keeper.

The decisions emanating from the meeting came thick and fast, and also included dropping young left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc for the two games to come with Ryan Harris returning to the side after regaining his fitness.

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been suspended for one match after his side was fined for a second minor over-rate offence within a year during the seventh match of the three-nation series against Australia in Brisbane on Sunday. The India side was ruled to be two overs short of its target at the end of the match when time allowances were taken into consideration.

As such, Andy Pycroft of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees imposed a 40 per cent fine on Dhoni while each of his players received 20-per-cent fines. As this was India's second minor over-rate offence after it was fined for a slow over-rate in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 final against Sri Lanka in Mumbai on 2 April, Dhoni has also been suspended from India's next game on Tuesday against Sri Lanka in Brisbane.

A re-invigorated Australian side bounced back from consecutive defeats in the Commonwealth Bank tri-series with a resounding 110 run victory over world champions India in the 7th game of the tournament at the Gabba in Brisbane on Sunday. Having lost the toss again, India were made to chase leather on a humid afternoon by Australia, who made an overwhelming 288 for 5 thanks to a late innings bash from David Hussey and Dan Christian that saw the pair muster 101 runs in the last 10 overs. India's reply never challenged Australia as they slumped to a hapless 178 all out on the back of a shoddy top order display from India's frontline batsmen.

Both sides made one change from the XIs that started their previous fixtures with Australia having to bring in Ben Hilfenhaus for Clint McKay, who was out due to illness, while India opted to leave out off-spinner Ravi Ashwin for the experienced Zaheer Khan. Virender Sehwag who was expected to be rotated back into this game for the very much in-form Gautam Gambhir was forced to miss out due to his continuing back troubles.