The DLF Cup 2006–07 (named after sponsor DLF) was a triangular

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tournament involving

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, and

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. Australia defeated West Indies by 127 runs in the final to lift the trophy, winning three of their five games in the tournament. Australian bowler

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was declared Player of the Series for his outstanding contribution with the ball. All the games were played at the

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between 12 September and 24 September 2006.

Tournament Structure

The sides played each other in a double

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, meaning that each side play four matches, for a total of six matches. The top 2 teams at the end of the round-robin stage played each other in a one-off final, which was played on 24 September 2006.

Schedule

Group Stage Table

Squads

Glenn McGrath Glenn Donald McGrath (; born 9 February 1970) is an Australian former international cricketer whose career spanned 14 years. He was a fast-medium pace bowler and is considered one of cricket's greatest bowlers and a leading contributor to Aus ...

and

Matthew Hayden Matthew Lawrence Hayden (born 29 October 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer. His career spanned fifteen years. Hayden was a powerful and aggressive left-handed opening batsman who, along with opening partners Ju ...

were recalled after long absences, while Mark Cosgrove,

Phil Jaques Philip Anthony Jaques (; born 3 May 1979) is a former Australian cricketer. He is a left-handed opening batsman who has played first-class cricket for New South Wales, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire and Worcestershire, as well as international cr ...

and

Mitchell Johnson Mitchell Guy Johnson (born 2 November 1981) is a former Australian cricketer, who played all forms of the game for his national side. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He represented Australia in international cricket from ...

travelled home after third match. *

Sachin Tendulkar Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (; ; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer who List of India national cricket captains#Men's cricket, captained the Indian national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketer ...

made a comeback to the Indian team, after a long injury layoff. * The

West Indies Cricket Board Cricket West Indies (CWI) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly Commonwealth Caribbean, English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that once formed the British West Ind ...

were in a payment conflict with the

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about this series, as the WIPA claims it was not informed before the WICB agreed to the matches, but a deal was eventually agreed in early August.

Match summary

1st match: Australia v West Indies

Shane Watson Shane Robert Watson (born 17 June 1981) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer who played for and occasionally captained the Australia national cricket team, Australian national cricket team between 2002 and 2016. He ...

's four wickets were a factor when West Indies went "a position of dominance to crash to a 78-run defeat" against an experimental Australian side, according to the BBC match report.

fell for a 10-ball two, bowled by

Fidel Edwards Fidel Henderson Edwards (born 6 February 1982) is a Barbadian cricketer, who played all formats of the game. A pace bowler, his round-arm action is "not unlike" that of former fast bowler Jeff Thomson but similar to the bowling action of Lasith ...

, before

Simon Katich Simon Matthew Katich (born 21 August 1975) is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He captained New South Wales and also, until the end of the 2007 season, Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Katich also played for Lancashire, represen ...

put on a stand of 98 with

Ricky Ponting Ricky Thomas Ponting (born 19 December 1974) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator, and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time and is the most successful captain in international cricket history, ...

. When both were dismissed by

Ian Bradshaw Ian David Russell Bradshaw (born 9 July 1974) is a former Barbadian cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team as a left-arm fast bowler. A former West Indies under-19s and Barbados captain, he was a notable member of the West Ind ...

, Michael Clarke entered to hit 81 off 79 balls, before the last four partnerships contributed 21 runs and sent Australia for 279 for nine. Replying,

Shivnarine Chanderpaul Shivnarine "Shiv" Chanderpaul (Guyanese Hindustani, Guyanese-Hindustani: शिवनारायण चंद्रपॉल) Orders, decorations, and medals of Guyana#The Cacique's Crown of Honour, CCH (born 16 August 1974) is a Guyanese peopl ...

hit 92 with four sixes and ten fours, and shared an opening stand of 136 with

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. In the 24th over, West Indies required 108 to win and had nine wickets in hand; from there on, four men were caught behind by

Brad Haddin Bradley James Haddin (born 23 October 1977), is an Australian former cricketer, vice-captain and coach who represented Australia national cricket team, Australia in all three forms of international cricket. He played domestically for New South ...

, and West Indies lost nine wickets for 29 runs. From Lara at No. 4 to Edwards at No. 11, the batsmen contributed 15 runs, Bravo making eight of those. The collapse was described by Cricinfo editor Dileep Pramachandran as one "that made a

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look sturdy." Australia captain

was fined his entire match fee after "showing dissent at an umpire's decision", his second such offense in five months, after

Asad Rauf Asad Rauf (Punjabi, ; 12 May 1956 – 14 September 2022) was a Pakistani umpire and retired first-class cricketer. He was a member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel from 2006 to 2013. Accused of involvement in match-fixing and spot-fixing of cricket ...

called a

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in the 33rd over of West Indies' innings.

2nd match: India v West Indies

India won the toss, and chose to bat.

, who played his first completed official international since March 2006, scored 141

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, and put on stands with

Rahul Dravid Rahul Dravid (; born 11 January 1973) is a former cricket player, ex-captain and ex-coach of the Indian national cricket team. Known for his outstanding batting technique, Dravid scored 24,177 runs in international cricket and is widely re ...

and

Irfan Pathan Irfan Pathan (; born 27 October 1984) is an Indian cricket commentator, analyst and former player. He was a bowling all-rounder and member of the Indian cricket team that won the inaugural 2007 ICC Twenty20 World Cup and 2013 ICC Champion ...

to lead India to 200 for one. Pathan got out to

, and

Jerome Taylor Jerome Everton Taylor (born 22 June 1984) is a Jamaican former cricketer who played as a fast bowler for the West Indies. Taylor took over 100 wickets for the Windies in both Tests and One Day Internationals (ODI). During 2017 he reversed an in ...

picked up three wickets, on a pitch where " grubbers...accounted for three of the batsmen". Match referee Chris Broad said that a small depression in the pitch had developed, and the organisers were forced to change their pitch rotation. India batted out their 50 overs, though, with Tendulkar hitting four sixes after he reached his hundred, and the fifth-wicket stand between him and

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worth 58 runs. When West Indies batted, they scored even quicker, helped by 26 extras conceded in 20 overs.

struck 45 from 35 deliveries before being caught behind off

Munaf Patel Munaf Patel (born 12 July 1983) is a former Indian cricketer who played all formats of the game. He played for the West Zone in the Duleep Trophy and Gujarat, Mumbai cricket team and Maharashtra cricket team in domestic arena. Patel was a mem ...

, and Patel and

Ajit Agarkar Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar (; born 4 December 1977) is a former Indian cricketer and commentator. He has been the current chairman of the BCCI selection committee since 4 July 2023. He has represented India in more than 200 international matche ...

were the only Indian bowlers to concede less than seven an over. With West Indies' at 141 for two, requiring 170 to win in the next 30 overs, rain stopped play at 8:35pm local time, and the players never returned.

3rd match: Australia v India

Australia batted first, with

and

adding 64 in the first 10 overs. Watson fell for 79, having led Australia to 157 for four, and Michael Clarke scored his 64 at a much slower

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of 68. With no one below Clarke passing 20, Australia were bowled out for 244,

claiming two men caught behind and

taking three wickets in his ten overs. All batsmen were caught, save for

, who was

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. The reply was interrupted twice by rain: India returned at 16 for nought in the fifth over, then lost five wickets in 18 balls, with

responsible for four of them in his seventh One-day International. The fifth was a run out. Then rain intervened again, and the game was called off as a no result.

4th match: Australia v West Indies

West Indies beat Australia by 3 wickets to book a place in the DLF Cup final.

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led the Australian team for the first time in the absence of

. Australia batted first and scored 272/6 in 50 overs. Opener

scored 49 runs from 77 balls while Hussey scored a brisk 109 off just 90 balls and

scored 70 runs off 77 balls. Hussey and Haddin added 165 together, a world record for the sixth wicket in ODIs.

was the pick of the West Indies bowlers claiming 2 wickets for 35 runs. West Indies chase got off to a slow start and they were 44/2 by the end of 12th over when

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walked to the crease.

and

then put on a 151 run partnership at a rate of close to 7.8 runs per over and set the stage for the chase. Gayle scored 79 while Lara scored a match-winning 87 off 80 balls. Lara fell with West Indies still needing 31 off 9.4 overs. 3 quick wickets followed Lara's dismissal leaving West Indies at 255/7 in 43.4 overs. However

Dwayne Bravo Dwayne John Bravo (born 7 October 1983) is a Trinidadian retired cricketer, a former captain of the West Indies cricket team and the current mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. Prior to that, he served as a bowling c ...

and

Carlton Baugh Carlton Seymour Baugh (born 23 June 1982) is a Jamaican cricketer. He attended Wolmer's Schools He is an aggressive right-hand batsman, wicketkeeper and occasional bowler of leg breaks and googlies. His Test debut came during a five-day mat ...

played sensibly and guided West Indies to a 3 wicket win with 16 balls to spare. Australia's

Stuart Clark Stuart Rupert Clark (born 28 September 1975) is an Australian former cricketer who played for New South Wales and the Australian team. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His nickname "Sarfraz" originates from the similarities of his bowli ...

finished with bowling figures of 7-0-87-0; his economy rate of 12.42 tied the then-record of

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for the worst economy rate ever in an ODI innings (with a qualification of at least five overs bowled); the record was surpassed in February 2012.

5th match: India v West Indies

won the toss and decided to bat first. The decision soon backfired when

Dwayne Smith Dwayne Romel Smith (born 12 April 1983) is a former Barbadian international cricketer who has represented the West Indies in all three formats of the game. An all-rounder, he is known as an aggressive and powerful right-handed batsman, bowls ...

removed Dravid in the very first over of the game. Sehwag's bad form continued as he dismissed for 1 by Smith leaving India at 6/2. When

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fell, India were struggling at 69/5. Dwayne Bravo picked up the first four Indian wickets to fall.

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and

then put on an 87 run partnership. Harbhajan scored 37 while Sachin Tendulkar scored 65. India were eventually bowled out for 162 inside 40 overs. West Indies got off to a decent start with the openers putting on a 44 runs stand. Wickets then fell regularly and West Indies were bowled out for 146.

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and

Sreesanth Shanthakumaran Nair Sreesanth (, born 6 February 1983) is an Indian former cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of ...

picked two wickets each, while

picked up three wickets towards the end.

was declared the Man of the Match for his contributions with the bat as well as the ball. The next game between India and Australia would decide the team that would go through to the finals.

6th match: Australia v India

Final: Australia v West Indies

Australia defeated West Indies by 127 runs to lift the DLF Cup.

won the toss and decided to bat first.

was the first wicket to fall for Australia. He scored 18. Skipper

soon followed making 6, before

Damien Martyn Damien Richard Martyn (born 21 October 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. He played for the national team sporadically in 1992–1994 before becoming a regular ODI player from 1999 to 20 ...

and

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scored 52 each.

hit a 24-ball 30 to take Australia to 240 in 50 overs.

was the pick of the West Indian bowlers with figures of two for 30 from his 10 overs. West Indies had a horrible start to their innings losing

to the very first ball.

Runako Morton Runako Shakur Morton (22 July 1978 – 4 March 2012) was a Nevisian cricketer who played for West Indies in all formats of the game. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-handed offbreak bowler. Domestic career A lively, often unpredicta ...

made a 31-ball duck, the slowest ever duck in One Day Internationals.Morton's Morton makes the record books ... for the wrong reason
from Cricinfo, retrieved 24 September 2006 West Indies lost wickets at regular intervals and were 56 for six at one stage.

Ramnaresh Sarwan Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan (born 23 June 1980) is a former Guyanese cricketer who played as a batsman. He is a former member and former captain of the West Indies cricket team, in all formats. Sarwan went on to average over 40 in both the test ...

and

scored 30's while rest of the batsmen barring

got one-digit scores.

was declared Man of the Match for his four wickets.

References

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