India skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first against Australia in the fourth ODI of the seven-match series in Chandigarh on Monday . India made three changes called Sourav Ganguly for Gautam Gambhir and Murali Kartik replaced Ramesh Powar while RP Singh came in place of Sree Santh. Australia called Nathen Bracken in place of Sturat Clark for the crunch game. The task at hands seems all the more difficult with the Indians failing to get big partnerships and the bowlers lacking sting and direction against the formidable Australian who have piled on over 900 runs in three matches so far. Mahendra Singh Dhoni's and his men, trailing 2-0 in the series, have no option but to pull up their socks and try to stop the Australian juggernaut to keep themselves afloat in the series and finally India won by 8 runs .

Teams:

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt), Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Robin Uthappa and Yuvraj Singh.

Australia: Ricky Ponting (Capt), Adam Gilchrist, Nathan Bracken, Michael Clarke, Brad Haddin, Matthew Hayden, Ben Hilfenhaus, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, James Hopes, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Andrew Symonds.

Bowing to intense pressure from the public and the Left Front, the government in West Bengal, removed two police officers from their posts Friday and hinted at similar action against three senior IPS officers, including the Kolkata Police Commissioner, for their alleged involvement in the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rahaman. On Friday, the state government removed Assistant Commissioner Sukanta Chakraborty and Sub-Inspector Krishnendu Das of the anti-rowdy section of Kolkata Police from their posts for allegedly threatening Rizwanur to opt out of his marriage with Priyanka Todi, daughter of prominent industrialist Ashok Todi. State Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy hinted that the government might also remove before Puja, two deputy commissioners of Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner (headquarters) Gyanwant Singh and Deputy Commissioner (detective department) Ajay Kumar, whose names have cropped up in the case.

Even Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee, whose name had also figured in the case may not be spared and may just be removed after Puja. Veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu said the government would take suitable action against the Police Commissioner only after Calcutta High Court heard the case. The government's action against the police officers follows intense pressure from senior CPI-M politicians, opposition leaders, intellectuals and the media over the past few days. The name of former Bengal Ranji Trophy cricketer Snehasish Ganguly, brother of cricket icon Sourav Ganguly, was dragged into the case after he admitted introducing the Todis to Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee.

In many places in West Bengal people are demonstrating against ration shops following allegations of corruption in the State Government department. Villagers have also set fire to godowns and police vehicles, saying they were starving. In Birbhum District, a man was killed and dozens injured after hundreds of people clashed with police. Situation has been brought under control. The district administration claims that the position has improved. Dozens of public distribution system (PDS) franchises have surrendered their permits out of fear and officials said they were investigating allegations of hoarding.

Poor villagers said that subsidized food grains and sugar meant for them were being sidetracked to regular markets and sold at huge premiums by corrupt PDS officials. At least 100 people, including dozens of policemen, were injured in clashes this week in West Bengal during protests against what residents say is widespread graft in the government's PDS. Earlier this year, an inquiry by the Central Government found that most of the rural poor in five states were not getting subsidized food supplies regularly. It found that only ten percent of the rural poor were getting regular supplies in dozens of remote villages of West Bengal.

Weather in Bengal turned pleasant today after last night's thundershower, with humidity levels taking a slight dip. Alipore Met office sources said that morning’s low-pressure area over northeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood has become well marked over the same area. Under its influence fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls is likely to occur in the state, especially near its coastal areas during the next two to three days.

The maximum temperature in the city was recorded at 35.4 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal, and the minimum at 25.2 degrees Celsius. Rainfall in the city in the last 24 hours varied between 5 - 29 mm. Humidity was relatively low at 84 per cent. The weathermen have warned that isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely occur at many places in the next 48 hours. Met officials have confirmed that the next 24 hours is expected to see generally cloudy sky with a few spell of very heavy rain and thundershowers.