The highly partisan crowd erupted into frenzied celebrations and began to cheer every delivery, as Australia began to feel the heat. Even as cool a customer as Michael Bevan seemed to have been rattled by the atmosphere, making just 12 runs off 37 balls before falling to Dharmasena. Damien Martyn (28) had preceded him into the pavilion an over earlier after being run out by Arnold. With Australia 97-6 in the 26th over, the crowd felt that their team had the match in the bag and who could disagree with them.