Australia’s spectacular run within the ODI World Cup continued as they snapped India’s 10-match-long profitable streak to claim their record-sixth World Cup title by defeating the Men in Blue by six wickets on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday, November 19.
Travis Head (137 off 120 balls) was awarded the Player of the Match (POTM) because the southpaw performed an impressive knock underneath strain throughout the run chase and took his facet over the road.
Chasing a mediocre whole of 241 runs to win, the Kangaroos received off to a jittery begin as David Warner (7 off 3 balls), Mitchell Marsh (15 off 15 balls) and Steven Smith (4 off 9 balls) received out inside the primary seven overs.
Warner was the primary one to depart as India’s captain Rohit Sharma‘s gamble of bringing Mohammed Shami forward of Mohammed Siraj to bowl with the brand new ball paid dividends. Warner paid the worth of fishing exterior of the off-stump and was caught by Virat Kohli at first slip. He was adopted by Marsh however Australia suffered the largest setback after dropping Smith within the seventh over.
Smith was trapped in entrance of his stumps by the chief of India’s tempo assault Jasprit Bumrah because the latter executed a well-disguised slower one to catch him off guard. India have been respiration down Australia’s neck with three wickets again within the hutch for 47 and the Men in Green and Gold wanted a miraculous rescue act from Head and Marnus Labuschagne.
Labuschagne (58* off 110 balls) and Head heard the rescue calls and responded with a 192-run stand for the fourth wicket that dented India’s hopes of ending their decade-long ICC drought. The Aussie duo took calculated dangers and well manipulated the sphere to go away the Indian bowlers dazed.
Head took the function of the aggressor and punished the Indian bowlers at any time when they erred by way of line and size. The southpaw performed some beautiful pull photographs off the backfoot and likewise drove the Indian pacers straight down the bottom after they bowled full to him. Head scored his eleventh ODI ton and arguably essentially the most priceless one in all his whole ODI profession to shatter the hopes of 1.4 billion Indians.
On the opposite hand, Labuschagne held the opposite finish to forestall the autumn of extra wickets and saved the Indian assault at bay. The Aussies chased the entire down within the forty third over to reclaim the world title.
Earlier within the day, the coin fell in favour of the Australia captain Pat Cummins and he determined to discipline first protecting the dew in thoughts. The choice quickly bore fruit for the guests as Mitchell Starc drew first blood by dismissing Shubman Gill within the fifth over of India’s innings. Despite Gill’s early dismissal, Rohit saved his foot on the accelerator and did not let the Aussie bowlers exert their dominance.
Rohit performed some high quality strokes to enthral the Indian spectators however perished whereas attempting to launch Glenn Maxwell down the bottom for a most. He miscued the aerial shot and Head accomplished a wonderful catch whereas operating again from cowl and pouching the prospect safely. Rohit’s dismissal was quickly adopted by Shreyas Iyer’s downfall and India have been reeling at 81 for the lack of three wickets after 10.2 overs.
Iyer’s dismissal introduced Virat Kohli and KL Rahul within the center and the duo scripted a rescue act. Virat (54 off 63 balls) and Rahul (66 off 107 balls) stitched a 67-run stand for the fourth wicket however could not handle to take the assault to the Aussie bowlers.
Virat perished whereas attempting to run a in need of a superb size ball from Cummins in the direction of the third area as he chopped it onto his stumps. But the largest setback occurred when Rahul received out to Starc within the forty second over. India desperately wanted Rahul to inject some momentum in the direction of the dying nevertheless it by no means occurred.
Ravindra Jadeja (9 off 22 balls) and Suryakumar Yadav (18 off 28 balls) additionally failed to script a dramatic turnaround for the Men in Blue as Australia folded India to 240 on the finish.
