Australia 317-8 (50 overs) bt India 299-7 (50 overs) by 18 runs
Andrew Symonds blasted an unbeaten 107 and Brad Hogg took 4-49 as Australia beat India by 18 runs to take a winning 4-1 lead in their one-day series. 
Symonds smashed nine fours and four sixes in his 88-ball knock while Adam Gilchrist made 51 and Ricky Ponting 49.
Sachin Tendulkar (86) put on 140 with Sourav Ganguly (72) but Hogg profited from poor shots to leave India reeling.
Robin Uthappa hammered 44 off 28 balls to give them a chance but once he was caught the hosts faded away to 299-7.
After Ponting won the toss, Michael Clarke was caught behind off left-armer Zaheer Khan in the first over.
But Gilchrist, who was dropped on 16 by Rahul Dravid at gully off Sree Santh, struck eight boundaries and put on 96 with Ponting, who lashed seven fours and a six.
The duo fell in quick succession, Ponting edging off-spinner Harbhajan Singh to Dravid at slip and Gilchrist driving paceman Irfan Pathan to Robin Uthappa in the covers.
India's spinners were on top when Murali Kartik removed Brad Hodge to make it 129-4, but Symonds cut loose as he shared 75 with Brad Haddin and 90 with James Hopes (39).
Symonds was dropped by Santh aiming to sweep Harbhajan when on two but other than that he was was merciless on the Indians - one straight six off slow left-armer Kartik nearly cleared the ground.
He reached his sixth ODI century as 102 runs came in the final 10 overs but India's experienced opening duo replied in kind.
Ganguly, who was once again strong in his favoured region square on the off-side, flayed two boundaries off Mitchell Johnson in the second over and Tendulkar crashed three successive fours off Brett Lee.
Tendulkar and Ganguly both reached their half centuries by swinging sixes off Hogg but the former was stumped off James Hopes when he lost balance trying to flick a leg-side delivery.
Irfan Pathan continued the assault by hammering Bracken down the ground and heaving Symonds for maximums in his run-a-ball 29, before cutting Hogg to point.
And Hogg put his side in charge by having Ganguly snapped up at wide long-off, trapping Yuvraj Singh lbw with a low full-toss and seeing Rahul Dravid hole out to long-on.
The game and series looked up for the hosts but Uthappa and Mahendra Dhoni (26) launched a ferocious assault, smashing the ball to all parts to leave Ponting scratching his head.
Dhoni dispatched Lee over long-off for six, while Uthappa deposited Clarke over exta-cover and Bracken down the ground for maximums as 50 runs were garnered in only four overs.
Lee inexplicably dropped a sitter when Uthappa flipped Johnson to fine-leg but Hopes and Ponting held on to steeplers during a double-wicket maiden from Johnson to end any doubt about the outcome.
"We lost wickets at crucial points and the death bowling was a concern. They got quite a few runs at the end and if Sachin or Sourav had continued till the end you never know what could have happened.
"We're not clicking as a team. I don't think we've bowled, batted and fielded well in the same match apart from the Chandigarh game so that's an area of concern.
"With one match to go we will look to rectify that because after that we have Pakistan coming in."
"This is a great win, no doubt about it. We came here having not played any cricket for four months and had a couple of games in the World Twenty20 that didn't really go to plan for us.
"But since we've been here I've been unbelievably impressed with the way we've gone about our cricket. It's not an easy place to win and we've won most of the games comfortably so I'm really proud of the boys.
"Andrew Symonds' innings and effort with ball were probably the difference in the end. He's an unbelievable cricketer and not many guys can do what he does.
"Some of his striking was pretty effortless and Hogg was exceptional. I said when we were batting that he had to take wickets if we were going to win the game.
"Even though we scored over 300 the wicket was good, the outfield very fast and the ground small. It was a chaseable total if we didn't bowl well but Hoggy stood up again and got some vital wickets for us."
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