India-Oz Fifth ODI Lkely to be Called Off

Cuttack: The fifth one-day international between India and Australia is likely to be called off on Saturday morning after the umpires inspection as there was no let up from rain for the last five days.

"We don't have the right to call the match off officially. But we have already announced the dates for ticket refund which obviously means the match has been officially abandoned," OCA secretary Asirbad Behera said on Friday.

The last one-day in Ranchi was also abandoned after 4.1 overs of India's chase of 296 as Australia continued to hold on to their 2-1 lead in the bilateral series.

Umpires Nigel Llong from ECB and S Ravi of India along with Match Referee Roshan Mahanama from SLC will take the call at 11am on Saturday, Behera added.

The OCA secretary also has spoken to the Board president N Srinivasan to shift the three-day practice match between the touring West Indies and Uttar Pradesh CA from October 31 which now is likely to be moved to Mumbai.

Giving a break-up of the insurance components, Behera said the stadium has been insured for Rs 5 crore for standard fire and peril policy while the spectators and visitors have been covered under public liability insurance policy for Rs 7 crore.

The special contingency insurance policy would cover the remaining Rs 8 crore, he added.

The Barabati Staidum hosted the last ODI on November 29, 2011 when India won against the West Indies by one wicket.

The venue turned out to be jinxed for both the teams as the last match between India and Australia was too abandoned without a single bowl being bowled exactly about 17 years back on October 27, 1996.

Both teams now travel to Nagpur for the sixth and penultimate ODI at Jamtha on October 30.

The series will conclude in Bangalore on November 2.

Teams from:

India: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (Capt. & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Vinay Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Jaydev Unadkat, Ambati Rayudu, Amit Mishra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma

Australia: Aaron Finch, Phillip Hughes, Shane Watson, George Bailey (Capt.), Adam Voges, Glenn Maxwell, Brad Haddin (wk), James Faulkner, Mitchell Johnson, Clint McKay, Xavier Doherty, Moises Henriques, Callum Ferguson, Nathan Coulter-Nile

Stats and trivia

• The last - and the only - time India and Australia decided to play in Cuttack, rain joined in, and the captains couldn't even come out for the toss.
• If he scores another 196 runs in his next three innings, Virat Kohli will be the fastest man to 5,000 ODI runs. He has played 111 innings so far; Viv Richards reached 5,000 in his 114th innings.

Match facts
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Start time 1330 local (0800 GMT)