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Jayawardene strikes a neatly paced 103* to guide ashaky innings and set up a challenging Lanka total

A billion hearts break as Tendulkar falls for 18, caught behindoff Malinga, dashing his hopes of scoring his 100th ton

Gambhir seizes control of the innings after Sehwag, Tendulkarfall cheaply. Scores a classy 97, forcing Lanka into submission

Dhoni promotes himself toNo. 4 and plays the innings of his life, leading from the front

Dhoni’s boys give Lanka the

blues, end India’s 28-year waitAtreyo Mukhopadhyay■ atreyo.mukhopadhyay@hindustantimes.com

MUMBAI: Men who make histo-ry defy all odds. For India, itwas a question of doing twothings which had never hap-penedbefore.Noteam hadwontheWorldCupon homesoilandno team had won a World Cupfinalchasingsucha bigtarget.

Bothachievements werecon-signedtohistory withSaturday'ssix-wicket win as 274 was sur-passedwithlotsto spare.A caul-dron of noise all day, theWankhede Stadium broke alldecibel levels after the matchandit wasa resoundingannounce-ment of India's official corona-tionas theworld'sbestteam.

Gautam Gambhir made 97and skipper Mahendra SinghDhonismashedan unbeaten91

off 79 balls as India won theWorld Cup for the first time

since1983with a six-wicketvic-toryoverSriLankaonSaturday.

SriLanka,whowon thetossand elected to bat, rode onMahelaJayawardene's103 notoutoff88ballsto pile up274-6in their 50 overs.

Indiahad slumpedto 31-2bythesixth overwhen fastbowler

Lasith Malinga dismissedVirenderSehwag(0)second balland had Sachin Tendulkar (18)caughtbehindin hisfourthover.

Gambhir, who was droppedon 30 and escaped a run-outchanceon 49,turnedthe match

around by adding 83 for thethird wicket with Virat Kohli

and 109 for the fourth withDhoni. Yuvraj Singh, who wasnamed the man of the tourna-ment,partneredhis skippertillthe end with 21 not out afterGambhir wasbowledby ThisaraPerera in the 42nd over when

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Sumit Saxena■ sumit.saxena@hindustantimes.com

NEWDELHI: TheCBIonSaturdayfiledits firstchargesheetin the2Gspectrumscamcase againsta shockedformertelecommin-ister A Raja, eight other per-sons and three companies forcausinga lossof R30,984croreto theexchequer in thealloca-

tion of licences for airwaves.Thechargesheetfiledin the

courtofspecialjudgeOPSaini

accusedRajaof conspiringwithtop bureaucrats, including aretired IASofficer, andcorpo-ratebigwigsto causethe hugelossto thegovernmentby manip-ulating the procedure for allo-cation of spectrum to favourcompanies such as, RelianceTelecom(of the AnilDhirubhaiAmbaniGroup),SwanTelecom(nowEtisalatDB Telecom)andthe Unitech group.

Rajaand theothershavebeencharged with criminal con-spiracy, forgery, cheating andcorruption.

Along with Raja, the other

a cc us ed n am ed i n t hechargesheet are former tele-com secretary Siddharth

Behura, Raja’s former person-alsecretaryRK Chandolia,SwanTelecom promoter ShahidUsmanBalwa,Unitech Wirelessmanaging director Sanjay

Chandra, Mumbai-based DBRealty’sdirector VinodGoenka,Reliance Telecom’sgroup man-

aging director Gautam Doshiandtwo ofthe company’s vice-presidents, Hari Nair andSurendra Pipara.

The agency alleged thatEtisalatDB Telecomand TelenorIndiapartnerUnitechwereinel-igiblefor 2G spectrumlicencesbutRaja manipulatedthe rulesto make them eligibile. “Rajamanipulated the priority liston the basis of letter of intentcompliancesinsteadof existingguidelines,”the chargesheetsaid.

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Raja, 11 others chargedCHARGESHEET FILED Attorney-general, lobbyist Niira Radia named witnesses

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Man of the match

MS Dhoni91 not out

Man of tournament

Yuvraj Singh362 runs, 15 wkts

Highest scorer

T Dilshan500 runs

Highest wicket taker

Shahid Afridi21 wkts