Following India's dramatic four-wicket win over Australia on Sunday, Gautam Gambhir believes Mahendra Singh Dhoni should have sealed the result much sooner than the final over.

Gambhir scored a Man-of-the-match 92 in India's run chase which required some last-gasp power hitting from captain Dhoni to get the job done.

"We should have finished this game in the 48th over," Gambhir said.

"We shouldn't have taken the game to the 50th over, that's my personal observation. I know it's always easier to talk when you are in the dressing room, and it's always tough in the middle, but my personal observation is we shouldn't have let this game go into the last over.

"Obviously when you put yourself in that situation, someone has to pick his hand up and say, 'I want to finish this game.' It shouldn't have gone into the last over."

With a quiet period in the middle overs, Dhoni ended up needing 12 runs off the final four balls of the match, but the skipper came up trumps as he hit a massive six off Clint McKay before finishing the match off with two balls to spare.

Gambhir, however, says he would have taken a slightly different approach to his captain.

"I know it's easier said than done," Gambhir said.

"It's always different. The pressure on players in the middle is far more. It's they who have to take that decision. It's their game plan. I don't know what was going through MS's mind, but maybe he wanted to delay it, maybe he wanted someone else to take that responsibility.

"Cometh the hour, I think the most important shot of the match was made by him. Six balls, 13 runs, with the kind of shot he played, he has done a fantastic job, he has always been a finisher, but that's his game plan. He wants to delay it.

"Someone like me, if I was there, I wouldn't have taken it to the last over, because I always feel that any runs in the last over is far more pressure than finishing one or two overs before. Even if you need five or six runs in the last over, the pressure is far more on the batting side. We are different human beings, we think differently, we have different gameplans."