Chase Into Record Books

AUSTRALIA'S score of 1-267 in the Brisbane final was the highest score by a team winning a one-day international by nine wickets. It is almost 20 years since both Australian openers have made centuries in the same one-day international. Before Gilchrist and Katich in Brisbane, the last pair to do so were Geoff Marsh (104) and David Boon (111), at Jaipur in 1986. The record total of 5-368 by Australia in the Sydney final ranks as the seventh-highest score in one-day internationals, on a list led ...