It was the 1700th ODI in cricket history.It was India's 463rd and Australia's 480th match.It was the 66th match between these two sides. The record now reads: Australia 38, India 25, abandoned 3.Umpires GA Pratapkumar and SK Tarapore were officiating for the second time each in a ODI.Matthew Hayden (111) became 20th Australian (on 81st occasion) to score a century in ODIs. He was playing his 22nd match. His previous highest was the 99 also against India at Bangalore on 25-03-2001, in the first match of this series.Hayden and Ricky Ponting (101) provided the 35th instance in ODIs when two batsmen scored centuries in the same innings. It was the fourth time Australian batsmen were performing this feat.India was conceding two centuries in the same innings for the eighth time. Now only Sri Lanka with 10 has conceded two centuries in the same innings on more occasions.The second wicket partnership of 219 runs between Hayden and Ponting was the 33rd double hundred partnership in ODIs. It was the seventh such partnership for Australia and eighth against India.The partnership equalled Australia's best for the second wicket. Mark Waugh and Ponting had added 219 runs against Zimbabwe at Delhi on 11-04-1998.The partnership was also the highest for Australia for any wicket against India obliterating the 212 run-partnership for the opening wicket between Geoff Marsh and David Boon at Jaipur on 07-09-1986. Incidentally the previous highest second wicket partnership for Australia against India was unbeaten 167 runs between Boon and Tom Moody at Sydney on 14-01-1992.The partnership was the joint third highest for Australia for any wicket against any country. Only the 224 run (unbroken) partnership between Allan Border and Dean Jones (v Sri Lanka,Adelaide, 28-01-1985) and 222 run-partnership between Michael Bevan and Steve Waugh (v South Africa, Melbourne CS, 16-08-2000) exceed Hayden-Ponting effort.Australia's total (338-4) was its joint second highest in all ODIs alongwith 338-6 v West Indies at Melbourne on 09-02-2001 and after its alltime highest of 349-6 v New Zealand at Christchurch on 26-02-2000.The total was obviously Australia's highest against India obliterating the 329-5 at Adelaide on 26-01-2000. Incidentally Australia's previous highest against India in India was 284 at Mohali on 03-11-1996.It was also the third highest total ever posted against India-home or away. Only New Zealand has exceeded Australia's total against India - 349-9 at Rajkot on 05-11-1999 and 348-8 at Nagpur on 26-11-1995.Vijay Dahiya by not conceding a single bye during Australia's huge total etched his name into record books. He became seventh Indian (on 11th occasion) not to concede a single bye while opposition posted a total of 300 or more. Australia's total is the third highest such total against India.Sachin Tendulkar (62) raced to his fifty off only 30 balls. His fifty is the third fastest against Australia in all ODIs. New Zealander Lance Cairns had taken 21 balls during his innings of 52 at Melbourne on 13-02-1983 while ace Indian allrounder Kapil Dev completed his fifty off 26 balls at Rajkot on 07-10-1986 during his innings of 58.It was the third time Tendulkar was completing a fifty off 30 balls or less. He had taken only 28 balls to complete his half-century against Zimbabwe at Sharjah on 13-11-1998 and 30 balls against Pakistan at Dhaka on 11-01-1998.Tendulkar by scoring 62 runs off just 38 balls (163.16 runs per 100 balls) recorded the second best scoring rate of his career in which he had scored at least a fifty. His fastest innings still remains as the 82 in 49 balls (SR 167.35) against New Zealand at Auckland on 27-03-1994 when he opened the Indian innings for the first time in his international career.Tendulkar's scoring rate is the fifth best against Australia in an innings of 50-plus. Lance Cairns (SR 208.00, 52 runs off 25 balls at Melbourne on 13-02-1983), Kapil Dev (SR 187.10, 58 runs off 31 balls at Rajkot on 07-10-1986), Ian Botham (SR 174.36, 68 runs off 39 balls at Perth on 01-01-1987) and Michael Holding (SR 164.10, 64 runs off 39 balls at Perth on 05-02-1984) have the better scoring rate than Tendulkar.The wicket of VVS Laxman was 250th for Shane Warne in his 161st match. He became first Australian and sixth bowler overall to do so. Only Pakistan's Waqar Younis had taken lesser matches - 148 - to achieve this milestone.Harbhajan Singh's 46 equalled the highest innings played by a number 10 batsman in all ODIs. Pakistan's Abdur Razzaq had made unbeaten 46 against South Africa at Durban on 03-04-1998. The previous highest score by an Indian at number 10 was the 43 by Javagal Srinath against Pakistan at Toronto on 16-09-1998, while Englishman Angus Fraser's unbeaten 38 at Melbourne on January 10, 1991 was the previous highest by a number 10 against Australia in ODIs.The 59 run-partnership for the ninth wicket between Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan was India's best for this wicket against Australia obliterating the 52 (unbroken) run-partnership between Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath at Bangalore on 21-10-1996.This partnership was the second best for any side for ninth wicket against Australia after 63 run-stand between Malcolm Marshall and Joel Garner for West Indies at Sydney on 06-02-1985.The match aggregate of 583 runs for the loss of 14 wickets is the highest in India-Australia matches. The previous highest was 547 for 14 at Sharjah on 24-04-1998.Shane Warne by holding three catches equalled the existing record of most catches by an Australian in the field against India. Allan Border, Mike Whitney and Steve Waugh are the others to do so.The victory margin of 93 runs was Australia's largest against India in India. The previous largest was the 48 run win at New Delhi (Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium) on 28-09-1994.Matthew Hayden won his maiden Man of the Match award. 