In between, Poonia was run out so the last three balls had failed to move the total.
Spinner Gayle bowled Jones and Steve Harmison in the space of three balls to finish the job.
But when Justin Langer caught Udal and Steffan Jones bowled Ervine they were four short with three balls to go.
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He also claimed a hat-trick with the first three balls of a World Cup match against Bangladesh in 2003.
He was seven over par and had hit three balls into the water.
Key's men were cruising early on but scraped home with three balls left, courtesy of Darren Stevens' 30 off 21.
Wicket-keeper Paul Nixon bowled what was to be the only three balls of Warwickshire's innings, Powell finishing the job quicky.
James Hildreth was dropped twice at third slip in the space of three balls and later survived a missed stumping opportunity.
Then Navdeep Poonia hammered Jacob Oram high into the stands, and with three balls left of the innings Scotland were 89-1.
Cook departed for a fluent 67, but Ian Bell made only four and three balls later Strauss (58) fell at leg gully.
But a promising stand of 48 was ended by Weeraratne, who dismissed both Misbah and Younus Khan in the space of three balls.
Ricky Ponting was beginning to look dangerous, taking 11 runs off the last three balls of an Ishant Sharma over to move to 24.
In fact, a year ago, the team had only one softball bat, one baseball cap, three balls, no official rulebook, and nine used gloves.
Soon after the re-start Moin Ashraf, whose 5-32 was Yorkshire's best bowling display in the Championship this season, took two wickets in three balls.
Harris and Kallis (22) were McDonald's first two wickets, in three balls, and he also bowled Morne Morkel (2), to finish the day with 3-25.
Gordon Drummond eventually took Ten Doeschate's wicket but Cooper finished unbeaten on 80 to take the Dutch over the line with three balls to spare.
The other two wickets went in the space of three balls to Nantie Hayward and they were the important ones of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly.
India managed to post a decent total by scoring 56 from their last five overs, including fours from the last three balls of the innings from Harbhajan Singh.
The tone was set three balls into Roach's first over when danger-man Tamim Iqbal flashed at an angled delivery but succeeded only in edging to Sammy at slip.
Three balls later, Collingwood edged a sharply seaming leg-cutter from Johnston, Botha this time made no mistake with the catch and England closed the powerplay phase on 32-3.
An excellent slower ball deceived Naeem Islam and hit the middle stump, and three balls later he hit the middle pole again when Razzak walked across his stumps.
Richardson (19) was taken at second slip by Ricky Ponting and Kasprowicz struck again three balls later when a thinner edge resulted in Fleming being caught by Shane Warne.
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Three balls later, Yuvraj Singh, a shadow of his usual self so far in this series, got a genuine edge to Symonds and Australia were in the ascendancy again.
He dumped Ian Bell on his backside with a bouncer and took two wickets in three balls to leave the Lions 13-3, but Tim Ambrose's 49 helped them reach 143-6.
The hosts had to recover after a morning session when Ntini struck twice with the new ball before returning ahead of lunch for two more wickets in the space of three balls.
Rogers edged Boyd Rankin to second slip but the Irish seamer had over-stepped, and Greg Smith then helped add 68 before Chris Woakes eventually hit back with two wickets in three balls.
And despite a few nervous moments, it was left to Malik to seal victory, smashing the ball for six with three balls to go before sparking scenes of celebrations amongst his teammates.
Broad was bowling with great venom and accuracy, and Fidel Edwards lasted just three balls before splicing a vicious throat ball to Tim Bresnan, who took a good catch in the gully.
India had set a relatively good target of 226 for six from their 50 overs, but Australia are in sparkling form and replied with a winning margin of 230 and three balls to spare.
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