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Australia’s sixth after beating India
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Publication: Sunday, November 19, 2023

Australia’s sixth after beating India
It will not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Australia could not show even half of the power that India reached the final. If you look at India’s 10 consecutive wins. Or the difference between the batting and bowling lineups of the two teams. There is no way but to call India absolute favourites.

On top of that, the home ground, 130,000 spectators at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad stood as Australia’s opponents with 11 cricketers. It is as if nothing has come and gone in Australia. The smell of the big stage seemed to change the physical behavior of the Australians. Unbelievable quickness in fielding, did not give any concession to the Indian batsmen in bowling.

Its results are visible in front of our eyes.

Australia beat India to win the World Cup for a record sixth time. Azira last won the World Cup title in 2015. Sometimes the 2019 World Cup came back empty-handed.

But Pat Cummins has explained that Ajid’s relationship with this tournament is sweeter than any other team.

It was the final for India, a stage to avenge the 2003 World Cup. You can add to this, the two best batsmen of the time, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, played the last World Cup! But Travis Head lit up the stage. This opener has once again become India’s nightmare with an incredible century.

You must remember the Test Championship final last June.

He scored the match-winning century in the first innings. Head took that form once again by getting India today. Chasing the target of 241 runs, Australia lost 3 wickets for 47 runs. David Warner, Mitchell Marsh and Steve Smith return to the dressing room. India was flying then. It was not unusual for the Australians to feel the pressure of breaking the stage set by the bowlers. But Head and Marnache Labuchen were thinking otherwise. 132-run partnership between the two for the fourth wicket. Head returned with a match-winning innings of 137 runs to be two runs away from the World Cup title.

Head’s partner Labuschenne was unbeaten on 58. Glenn Maxwell matched the equation for the last two runs. On this day, India started by losing the toss. Ahmedabad has seen wins in three of the last four matches by a run chase. Cummins didn’t think twice about sending India into bat even on a nerve-wracking stage like the final.

Cummins himself led from the front, Mitchell Starc-Zampara also came forward. Shubman Gill’s partnership of 30 runs with Rohit Sharma in the opening. But Rohit did not let Kohli lose the pace of the innings for the second wicket. Auji was disorienting the bowlers in another flurry innings. But once again his innings stopped short of completion.

Rohit returned for 47 after being caught by Travis Head. He hit Glenn Maxwell for a six and a four off the previous two balls. He went to blow up for being out. But did not get the timing. Shreyas Iyer followed the lead of the captain after three balls.

Then the pair of Kohli-Rahul. The pair broke after Kohli’s fifty. Kohli was dismissed for 54 off 63 balls by Pat Cummins. Kohli’s 63-ball innings is lined with four fours. Ravindra Jadeja then paired with Rahul. However, Jadeja struggled in front of the Australian bowlers in the 22-ball innings. In the end Josh Hazlewood got out with a catch behind the wicket.

Even so, the story of the end of India’s innings could have been a little different if Rahul had stayed till the end. Rahul was showing that dream in the partnership of 25 runs with Suryakumar Yadav. But he also got out for 66 runs. Just one four in his 107-ball innings. Then there is a procession of tail batters. India’s innings ended when Kuldeep Yadav got out on the last ball of the 50th over. At the beginning of the innings, the target became a mountain for the Australians, but in the end, Mohammad Sami-Jasprit Bumrah could not hold it. Ajira got their sixth World Cup title with a 7-wicket win.

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