THE 2008 CB SERIES TRI-NATION TOURNAMENT WIN IN AUSTRALIA

Though India has won a multi-nation ODI tournament in 1985, the Men in Blue, as they were dubbed later, hadn’t won a single tri-series in which they featured in Australia.

However, things changed in 2008, when India and Sri Lanka joined Australia in the CB series tri-nation trophy. This was MS Dhoni’s first big series as India’s ODI captain and the memories of the 2007 World Cup debacle was fresh in minds of Indian fan, despite the blow being lessened by the 2007 T20 World Cup win.

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Australia topped the points table with 5 wins in 8 matches, while India beat out Sri Lanka by winning three matches in the league stage. Australia and India were slated to meet in the best of three finals and something interesting happened ahead of the finals.

Sachin Tendulkar starred with the bat in the first two finals, which India won. He made 117* helping India chase down a 240-run target, his first ODI century in Australia. He then made 91 as India made 258/9 in the second final, which India won by 9 runs after Praveen Kumar picked 4/46.

It was a huge monkey off the back of the Indian team who finally conquered the Australians in its den.