Richard Illingworth (England), Richard Kettleborough (England), Joel Wilson (West Indies, TV)
Referee
Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)
Weather
No chance of rain
Pitch Report
Balanced pitch with help for spinners. At this ground (in 2023 World Cup): Avg. 1st inning score:251 ; Team batting 2nd have won 3 out of 4 matches; Top Players: R Sharma (Mat: 6, Runs: 307, Avg: 51, SR: 103.02), M Siraj: (Mat: 4, Wkts: 7, BB: 3/29, Eco: 4.40)
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Australia elected to bowl
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247Avg Runs
8Avg Wkts
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2nd Innings
222Avg Runs
6Avg Wkts
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SR
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Balanced pitch with help for spinners. At this ground (in 2023 World Cup): Avg. 1st inning score:251 ; Team batting 2nd have won 3 out of 4 matches; Top Players: R Sharma (Mat: 6, Runs: 307, Avg: 51, SR: 103.02), M Siraj: (Mat: 4, Wkts: 7, BB: 3/29, Eco: 4.40)
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Richard Illingworth (England), Richard Kettleborough (England), Joel Wilson (West Indies, TV)
Referee
Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)
Weather
No chance of rain
Pitch Report
Balanced pitch with help for spinners. At this ground (in 2023 World Cup): Avg. 1st inning score:251 ; Team batting 2nd have won 3 out of 4 matches; Top Players: R Sharma (Mat: 6, Runs: 307, Avg: 51, SR: 103.02), M Siraj: (Mat: 4, Wkts: 7, BB: 3/29, Eco: 4.40)
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That's it! 384 hours of live commentary, thousands of articles, and countless memories later, we conclude our coverage of the 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup. What a journey it has been for our ever-so-awe-inspiring cricket content team - days... months of relentless efforts have culminated into something really special! The numbers we conjured over the course of the tournament has been staggering to say the least. Special thanks to you folks - as is the case all the time, the fans are the pillar behind the success of every entity, and this was no different - thank you so, so much for all your support! With the grandest cricketing event coming to an end - both these sides will now turn their focus towards the shortest International format. There's another World Cup - a 20-over one - to prepare for the next year! The T20I leg of Australia's tour of India will begin on Thursday at Visakhapatnam. Tune in right here on Sportskeeda for our coverage of the same, and of course, a whole lot more! On behalf of a wonderful team of Pratyush Rohra, Balashankar Prasanna, Arya Sekhar Chakraborty, Shashwat Kumar and Sooryanarayanan Sesha, this is Rajarshi Das, signing off. Goodbye - see you soon!
Wow. Quite a month and half eh? Only fair we look back at it all!
October 5. That's when it began at this very venue in Ahmedabad. We picked up from where we left off in 2019 with England and New Zealand lifting us off and while Jonny Bairstow's second ball six suggested that England meant business, it was all but that as we found out. A hammering at the hands of the Kiwis summed up a miserable campaign for the defending champions before Australia also struggled to take off even as things took a turn for the better. India were up and running and nothing seemed to stop them in the round-robin phase while South Africa butchered teams for fun batting first and lit up the competition, even as New Zealand were...well, typically New Zealand - professional and clinical when it mattered!
Just when questions over whether ODIs were exciting any more continued to do the rounds, Afghanistan and the Netherlands proved otherwise. They were the teams that defined this tournament and made it what it was, with the Afghan victories over England and Pakistan, plus the Dutch getting the better of South Africa, bound to be spoken about for years and years to come. Afghanistan even threatened to barge into the semifinals but then, Glenn Maxwell happened - arguably the greatest ODI innings of all time with just about zero footwork beyond a point, it was a sight to behold.
And there were an array of records smashed - the one for the fastest hundred in World Cup history was re-written twice while Mohammed Shami snared his 24 wickets at under 10 apiece. Staggering to say the least! Oh, and there was that man Virat Kohli, who reached a summit no human on the planet ever had before as he notched up his 50th ODI hundred in the semifinal to boot. At the end of it all though, the might of the Aussies proved too hot for India to handle in the final as their ten-match winning streak was snapped in heartbreaking fashion. Some things don't change and the Australians rocking up on the big night is one of them. Truly an unparalleled legacy alright!
Patrick Cummins. Yes, his name is Patrick. From a young teenage prodigy ravaged by injury and perhaps having his career on the line, to becoming the world's top-ranked Test bowler, an Ashes-winning skipper, a World Test Championship winning skipper and now with an ODI World Cup to his kitty. This has been some journey hasn't it?
It's happening. The Australia players assemble as Patrick Cummins - the second Australian man to captain his side to a World Cup title in India since the great Allan Border, is JOINED BY HIS CHAMPION SIDE having collected the Cup from the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and the Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles! UP GOES THE TROPHY AS THE CONFETTI AND FIREWORKS SET OFF!!! What a team this is - A World Test Championship and an ODI World Cup in the same year - you can't help but wonder whether the 'under-dog' tag ticked something off within their ranks on both occasions!
Pat Cummins (Australia captain): Yeah that's it (rose to the occasion). I think we saved our best for the last. Couple of big match players stood up and we're pretty chuffed. We were tossing it up - we were batting first pretty much the whole tournament. Today we thought it was a good night to chase it down and it might get easier. It was a bit slow I thought. It didn't particularly spin probably as much as we thought. I thought everyone adjusted well and bowled tight lines. On a slow wicket like that with pretty variable bounce, we thought a couple of catchers on the leg-side...you've got to score runs in ODI cricket so we put a couple of catchers in those positions. Desperate for sure (on the field). I think it all started last week against South Africa. We've got an aging side but it was brilliant. Really chuffed with 240. I thought 300 was motoring towards par but anything under that we would have been happy. I was one of those blokes with the heart fluttering up and was pacing. Marnus was great there and Trav does what he does, takes the bowlers on. To do that on the big stage speaks of his character. The unheralded few (have to be credited) - the selectors in backing him (Head) and the medical staff who worked hard with him. It was a big risk we took and it paid off. I was pretty happy they were silent for most of the bowling innings. But fantastic, the passion in India is second to none. You look around, it's a pretty special moment. Whatever the result it was a pretty special day. (Message after the first two losses) If you're going to win a World Cup you can't just wait for it to happen. You've got to take the game on. There was a shift after those first two games. The openers took the game on. It told on everyone and it worked. Crazy - this year will be the year we remember for a long, long time. It's been awesome. We've had a lot of success and this pips it all. Top of the pile.
And now, the champions. Six-time champions. Gosh that's something! Australia looked down and out after defeats to India and South Africa and guess what, they've completed their redemption with wins over those very two teams in the knockouts. Life truly has come a full circle hasn't it? Justin Langer famously said 'never underestimate the Indians' but tell you what, it's our turn to say 'never write an Australian team out on the big stage'. They've been fabulous and have comfortably been the better team on the big night. And this is a moment to savor for a lifetime with some of these players also having won the tournament back in 2015. Up they come to the dais to receive their medals with beaming smiles on their faces!
Rohit Sharma, India captain: Honestly, the result hasn't gone our way. We weren't good enough today. But I'm proud of how we played from game one. Wasn't our day, we tried everything we could, but just wasn't to be. 20-30 more would have been good, we spoke at around 25-30 overs when KL and Virat were batting. They were stitching a good partnership there, and we needed to bat long. We were looking at 270-280, but then we kept losing wickets. That's exactly what Australia did. When you have 240 on the board, you want to take wickets as early as possible. We did that. Credit to Travis Head and Marnus, they stitched a partnership and put us out of the game completely. We tried everything we could, but I thought the wicket got slightly better under lights. We knew the wicket'd be slightly better under lights, but don't want to give that as an excuse. We didn't bat well enough to put those runs on the board. Another wicket could have opened up the game but, again, credit to those two guys who stitched a partnership.
The Indian players now come up to receive their runner-up medals. So near, yet so far...the wait continues for this team and alas, it may be the last time a good chunk of these players play an ODI World Cup. Like we said before though, it should take nothing away from how they've played over the last few weeks - beginning with the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka. It's been a real thrill watching this team but the reactions tell you that they're as devastated as any of their supporters, if not more.
Virat Kohli has been adjudged the Player Of The Tournament! While the crowd breaks into a loud cheer, Kohli, completely devoid of any facial expressions, walks up to the dais to collect his award.
First up, the match officials collect their mementos. Boos all around the ground as Richard Kettleborough makes his way towards the dais.
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