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Steven Smith has been the star performer in the IPL's first week, impressing with his consistency in the middle order by helping his team reach competitive totals with quickfire cameos

Steven Smith has been the star performer in the IPL's first week, impressing with his consistency in the middle order by helping his team reach competitive totals with quickfire cameos

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Clint McKay, the right-arm seamer, stepped up to the plate with figures of 5-28 and ensured Australia won by 16 runs

Tillakaratne Dilshan isn't in the Sri Lankan team for his batting alone

David Warner's 163 at the Gabba was his maiden ODI hundred and the sixth-highest score by an Australia player in an ODI

Not even a hat-trick from Daniel Christian could prevent Sri Lanka from winning the last qualifying match at the MCG, but a rare hat-trick is special all the same

Virat Kohli put on an imperious display of strokemaking, his malleable wrists powering an Indian fightback conspicuous by its absence on what had been, until now, two forgettable overseas trips

The most remarkable thing about David Warner's 68 off 66 balls against India in Sydney was that it did not feature a single six

After Sri Lanka put up a strong total, Nuwan Kulasekara took three wickets, including Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir's, and bowled nine overs for just 40 runs

Ben Hilfenhaus was never a regular in Australia's one-day setup. But after his maiden five-wicket haul against India at the Gabba, he might well be taken more seriously by the selectors, at least in the near furture

One of the chief architects of Sri Lanka's clinical win over Australia at the SCG was Thisara Perera

Matthew Wade built on the fine impression he created during the Test series, knocking around India's bowlers in the first one-dayer of the Commonwealth Bank Series to help set up an Australia win in a rain-hit match

It is impossible not to look at the background. For the second time in two games, Gautam Gambhir laid a platform for India to chase, only to be denied a century

Once more, like in the World Cup final, it was an India chase set up by Gautam Gambhir and steered through its final nervy moments by MS Dhoni

Though Sri Lanka ended up falling short by five runs, if it were not for Angelo Mathews they would have been beaten easily

India's first win overseas in 17 international games was led by Ravindra Jadeja, a man much hated by Indian fans, always the fall guy, until he was dropped in 2010

Matthew Wade produced a punishing 72 in what was the start of a five-match audition for a permanent berth behind the stumps in place of Brad Haddin