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India  displayed an ordinary batting skills to suffer a humiliating 110-run defeat against Australia in the seventh game of the commonwealth bank tri-series on Sunday.

Chasing a mammoth total of 289 India struggled from ball one and folded up for 178 in 43.3 overs with Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 56 going in vain. Ben Hilfenhaus, playing his first ODI since Nov 2009, picked up five wickets after Peter Forrest (52) and Mike Hussey (59) steered Australia to 288 for five with stand-in skipper Ricky Ponting deciding to bat at the Gabba.

Barring Gautam Gambhir (5), the others including Sachin Tendulkar (3), Virat Kohli (12), Rohit Sharma (0) and Suresh Raina (28), got out playing lose shots and left India reeling at 82 for five in the 23rd over.

Brett Lee (3-49) and Hilfenhaus worked up serious pace initially amid conditions which suited the home team more. Lee got rid of Gambhir with a beauty and hit one on the helmet of Tendulkar, who looked out of sorts during his brief stay at the crease.

The master blaster walked back to the hut after he played an upper cut off Lee, guiding a dolly to the third man. Sachin did not take the field in Australia's innings after he was hit on the shin while fielding in the slips.

Dhoni and Irfan Pathan (19) entertained the crowd for sometime after Ravindra Jadeja's dismissal made it 114-6 but it never looked India would get close to the target.

Earlier, Peter Forrest and Mike Hussey struck fifties in Australia's daunting 288.