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Ponting leads clean sweep

AFP, Darwin
Ricky Ponting scored his fourth one-day century of a productive year as world champions Australia crushed minnows Bangladesh by 112 runs in the final cricket one-dayer to sweep their series 3-0 at Marrara Oval here on Wednesday.
Skipper Ponting's rich scoring form continued with 101 off 118 balls including four sixes and two fours to push Australia to 254 for seven off
their 50 overs after winning the toss.
Bangladesh were always hard pressed, even with Australia going into the match without top-line paceman Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee, and were dismissed for 142 off 47.3 overs.
The Darwin win follows Australia's eight wickets and nine wickets victories in the opening two games in Cairns last weekend.
Medium-pacer Ian Harvey claimed 4-16 off 6.3 overs, left-arm spinner Brad Hogg chimed in with 232 off 10 overs and Jason Gillespie had a superb spell of 1.16 off 10
overs with six maidens.
Man-of-the-match Ponting led by example in winning his 37th match in his 47th game as national one-day skipper.
He snapped up two catches after earlier posting his 14th one-day international century.
"We've done everything we had to do but ... more importantly our attitude's been really good," Ponting said.
"We've really tried to get out there and play as hard as we can and as well as we can.
"The guys have all stayed up for
the three games and played really well."
The Bangladeshis had one of their best spells in the field on tour when they claimed three Australian wickets for two at one stage.
Australia slumped from 112 for one to 114 for four after 26.5 overs as Bangladesh looked to restrict the world champions to a reasonable score on the big Darwin ground.
Spinner Mohammad Rafique started the ball rolling with the prized wicket of Adam Gilchrist for
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31 off 35 balls, but Matthew Hayden and Ponting put on 58 runs for the second-wicket before Hayden sent a return catch to Rafique for the spinner's second wicket.
Hayden's dismissal for 42 off 72 balls signalled a mini-collapse with Damien Martyn, who hit a whirlwind unbeaten 92 from 51 balls last Sunday, out fifth ball for one when he chopped leg spinner Alok Kapali on to his stumps.
Andrew Symonds followed eight balls later after a mix-up with Ponting over a quick-single and was stranded well out of his crease for a duck by a quick throw by Sanwar Hossain to wicketkeeper Hannan Sarker.
Michael Bevan and Ponting restored the innings with a 127-run stand for the fifth wicket before Bevan was bowled by a Mashrafee-bin-Mortuza full toss for 57 off 57 balls with two fours and two sixes.
Ponting holed out to Tushar Imran in the second-last over just after reaching his century and Ian Harvey went down swinging off the last ball for five, giving Mashrafee his second wicket of the innings.
Left-arm spinner Rafique finished the best of the Bangladeshi bowlers with 2-31 off 10 overs and Mashrafee claimed 2-41 off 10 overs.
Bangladesh slumped to 36 for five and it was only a defiant knock by Kapali that prevented an embarrassing total.
Kapali fell one run short of his half-century when he was caught and bowled by Hogg for 49 off 65 balls.
Kapali and Sanwar added 66 runs off 96 balls before the latter
was caught and bowled by Hogg at 27.
Captain Khaled Mahmud was run out by a brilliant piece of fielding by Hogg who plucked a Brad Williams high throw to the bowler's end and whipped off the bails with Mahmud out of his ground.
Ponting caught Tapas Baisya out for 11 off Harvey in the 45th over and Harvey claimed the final wicket bowling Mashrafee for two.
Ponting said his team had enjoyed escaping the winter of southern Australia to play cricket in the dry season of the northern tropics.
"When it is relaxed away from the game, it certainly helps all the players ... perform better," Ponting said.
"I've really enjoyed it and I think if you ask all the guys, they've enjoyed themselves immensely.
"We'll go home now and rest up for a little while and make sure we are ready for our next challenge which is Zimbabwe."
Australia play two Tests against Zimbabwe in Perth and Sydney in October.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of the third and final one-day international between Australia and Bangladesh at Marrara Oval in Darwin on Wednesday:
AUSTRALIA
Gilchrist c Hannan b Rafique 31 Hayden c and b Rafique 42
Ponting c Tushar b Tapas 101
Martyn b Kapali 1
Symonds run out (Sanwar) 0
Bevan b Mashrafee 57
Harvey c Rafique b Mashrafee 5
Hogg not out 4
Extras: (lb-7, w-5, nb-1) 13
Total: (For 7 wkts in 50 overs) 254
Fall of wickets: 1-54, 2-112, 3113, 4-114, 5-241, 6-247, 7-254
Did not bat: Bichel, Gillespie, Williams
Bowler O M R W
Mashrafee 10 2 41 2
Tapas 10 0 63 1
Mahmud 8 0 57 0
Rafique 10 0 31 2
Kapali 10 1 43 1
Sanwar 2 0 12 0
BANGLADESH
Hannan lbw b Gillespie 1
Javed lbw b Harvey 16
Bashar c Ponting b Bichel 2
Sanwar c and b Hogg 27
Imran run out (Hogg) 1
Ashraful b Harvey 4
Kapali c and b Hogg 49
Mahmud run out (Williams/Hogg) 5 Baisya c Ponting b Harvey 11
Rafique not out 8
Mashrafee b Harvey 2
Extras: (lb-11, w-5) 16
Total: (All out in 47.3 overs) 142
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-24, 3-27, 430, 5-36, 6-102, 7-119, 8-119, 9-136 Bowler O M R W
Gillespie 10 6 16 1
Williams 10 2 32 0
Bichel 10 1 35 1
Harvey 6.3 0 16 4
Hogg 10 0 32 2
Symonds 1 1 0 0
Result: Australia won by 112 runs and won the series 3-0.
Toss: Australia. Man-of-the-match and -series: Ricky Ponting.
Umpires: David Shepherd (England) and Simon Taufel (Australia)