Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Sydney

"This is quite curious. During all of India's games, a message will come on to the big screen at various points. Flanked by pictures of Anil Kumble and Zaheer Khan and prompted by the stadium announcer, India fans are urged to chant 'Cling on to the Cup'. No other team is given this treatment. How odd that, at an ICC event, India are given favourable treatment."

This is a big test for Mitchell Johnson. For many years he's been the go-to man for Australia, but in this World Cup he's taken a back-seat role. Now his team need him to come alive grab them a wicket again. He's striving for the toe-crunching yorker, but he's just straying a touch leg-side at the moment, allowing India to dab him for singles. Five off the over, India cooking on gas.

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India 55-0 from 10 overs (target 329)

Batsmen: Rohit 19, Dhawan 32

Bowling figures: Starc 3-0-9-0, Hazlewood 4-0-15-0, Johnson 2-0-12-0, Faulkner 1-0-16-0

Australia 328-7: Smith 105, Finch 81, Yadav 4-72, Mohit 2-75

Australia won toss

Scorecard

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"Huge over, that. They're clearly targeting Faulkner and think they can get at him."

Rahul Dravid
Ex-India captain on BBC Test Match Special

"It's as if they were waiting for James Faulkner to bowl. He's going to have to change something from here."

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Michael Clarke is determined not to let the batsmen settle here - he rings the changes again, bringing in James Faulkner. The bowler commits a cardinal sin with this first delivery, overstepping the no-ball line to give away a free hit, but he partly redeems himself by restricting Rohit to a single off the free-hit ball.

That brings Dhawan to the crease and he decides he wants to knock Faulkner off his stride. He laces him past mid-off for consecutive fours, then pummels him into the stands at midwicket for a huge six! India on the attack. 16 off the over

Shirish: Just preserve wickets. Any run rate is achievable on this flat pitch if you have wickets in hand.

Sophia Swain: Signal dropped, lost 5 Live, tutted so loudly I surprised myself. More cricket, less going to work I say!

Rahul Dravid
Ex-India captain on BBC Test Match Special

"It'll be interesting to see how Mitchell Johnson goes. He had a beauty of a cameo with the bat today, 27 from nine balls, but hasn't looked in the best of form with the ball. I'm probably being a bit unkind to him there, but after the success he's had in the last year and a half, you'd have been expecting him to lead the attack - and the crucial overs and wickets have gone to Mitchell Starc instead."

Johnson switches his angle of attack, moving around the wicket to try and slant the ball across the bows of the left-handed Dhawan. But once again Dhawan is equal to Australia's best-laid plans, using Johnson's pace to caress the ball through point for four. Johnson switches back over the wicket: a small psychological victory for the opening batsman.

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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Sydney

"Wicketkeepers often like to leave 'room for brilliance', room between themselves and first slip so both can move without getting in each other's way. That was certainly what was going on with Haddin, it would have been a better than brilliant catch. Thing is, he dropped it, so first slip looks a bit wide."

Rahul Dravid
Ex-India captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Australia have had a couple of opportunities already - one half chance, and a straightforward chance for a keeper of Brad Haddin's capability, so they'll be disappointed with that."

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Hazlewood continues. India's openers rotate strike for three singles.

Rana W U Rehman: B McCullum (C), Guptill, Sanga (wk), S Smith, AB, Maxwell, Riaz, Tahir, Starc, T Boult, M Morkel. (12: Ashwin)

Mobeen Ahmad Tahir: B McCullum(C), R Sharma, K Sangakkara(W), S Smith, AB De Villiers, G Maxwell, Dan Vettori, M Johnson, M Starc, W Riaz, T Boult.

BBC Radio Test Match Special

"Stunning view over the famous pavilion as the sun sets for the last time at the Sydney Cricket Ground at this World Cup."

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Michael Clarke doesn't take long to shuffle his pack - he brings on Mitchell Johnson in place of Mitchell Starc, who has been Australia's number one wicket-taking bowler in this tournament. Johnson tries to rough up Rohit with an early short ball but the batsman plays it superbly, swivelling to intercept it around his ears with the middle of the bat and depositing it into the stands for the first maximum of India's innings.

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"There was a time when someone got 329 you'd think 'we are done for so we might as well go hell for leather'. But this India side know it is attainable if you just play modern one-day cricket."

Former England batsman Mark Butcher:, external Pace bowling makes cricket. It's what elevates the game as a spectacle.

Australia are trying to push Shikhar Dhawan onto the back foot, not allowing him any width to free his hands. The opener manages to nab two off the last ball of Hazlewood's over with a push to mid-off. Steady start for India.

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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"A little shimmy down the pitch from Dhawan and Haddin dived full left. He was justified going for it. He went with two hands but he might have been better going with one. It would have been a very photogenic catch and it was travelling."

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Starc screams a huge appeal as he strikes Dhawan on the ankle with a tailing yorker. The Australians opt not to review, and replays show the ball was sliding down leg. The early breakthrough continues to prove tantalisingly elusive for Australia.

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