2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches
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Well congrats Australia, in the end a comfortable victory, contained the Indian batsmen and Head stood up with the match winning innings when it mattered.
Remarkably they managed to silence the crowd with their bowling which no-one saw coming.
@Windows97 said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
Well congrats Australia, in the end a comfortable victory, contained the Indian batsmen and Head stood up with the match winning innings when it mattered.
Remarkably they managed to silence the crowd with their bowling which no-one saw coming.
Cough cough
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Yeah have to give credit to the Australian team (even if begrudgingly
) . That Indian team was particularly strong, high on confidence and at home. If any team was to beat them they would have had to put in a complete performance and that fielding effort put them under pressure, which haven't been in for a while.Well done Australia
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@NTA said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
Surely the BCCI must be asking how much money they need to spend to buy a trophy? It has been a long drought on the short-form stage.
Alright,alright, you can stop going on about it now. Sheesh.
Unbelievable arrogance
@MN5 said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
@NTA said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
Surely the BCCI must be asking how much money they need to spend to buy a trophy? It has been a long drought on the short-form stage.
Alright,alright, you can stop going on about it now. Sheesh.
Unbelievable arrogance
Totally believable arrogance
50% winning record at CWC :winking_face_with_tongue: -
@MN5 said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
@NTA said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
Surely the BCCI must be asking how much money they need to spend to buy a trophy? It has been a long drought on the short-form stage.
Alright,alright, you can stop going on about it now. Sheesh.
Unbelievable arrogance
Totally believable arrogance
50% winning record at CWC :winking_face_with_tongue:@NTA said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
@MN5 said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
@NTA said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
Surely the BCCI must be asking how much money they need to spend to buy a trophy? It has been a long drought on the short-form stage.
Alright,alright, you can stop going on about it now. Sheesh.
Unbelievable arrogance
Totally believable arrogance
50% winning record at CWC :winking_face_with_tongue:I'm hoping @Virgil logs on to take you down a peg or two….
But yeah, brilliant big match temperament to take the game which counted. I thought India would be pretty unstoppable to be honest.
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@Windows97 said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
Well congrats Australia, in the end a comfortable victory, contained the Indian batsmen and Head stood up with the match winning innings when it mattered.
Remarkably they managed to silence the crowd with their bowling which no-one saw coming.
Cough cough
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@Windows97 said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
@Dodge Well done!! Just got your call on Smith wrong but 2 out of 3 not bad
He wasn’t out (bloody referees) otherwise I was quids in
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Australia won that with the ball. When Rohit was seeing them like beach balls, and Kohli getting going it was looking ugly. Then Head takes a fucking screamer, and the clamps go on. But it was getting Kohli that fucked them, while he was there 300 looked on despite everyone else battling. The whole unit bowled well, good plans, good lengths, and took the pace off the ball over and over.
I may have said this a couple of times this year, but Travis Head is so fucking good now, that's an all-time knock. 130,000 very quiet fans.
Considering how shit Australia looked a month ago this is quite some turnaround
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Oh, and Dan won a World Cup
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I remember reading someone on here saying how the tournament was long enough for teams and players to play themselves in and out of form. Was true individually of Devon Conway after his great start against England.
Also worked well in favour of Aussie moving up through the gears, and India playing long enough for an off day to finally slip in for their top order. The relatively long tail must play on the minds of Rahul and co when early wickets fall.
They were already on the move up, but Maxwell singlehandedly turning around the looming Afghan loss must have been huge for the self belief about Australia winning from anywhere too.
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reading about the reactions makes this even better. Stay classy India.
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@Dodge said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
Used to hate Travis Head, now think I’d like to have a beer with him. Even Warner! Reality
I'd say yes to the former, but have been reliably informed the latter is a fluffybunny.
@NTA said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
@Dodge said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
Used to hate Travis Head, now think I’d like to have a beer with him. Even Warner! Reality
I'd say yes to the former, but have been reliably informed the latter is a fluffybunny.
Warner? A fluffybunny? Well colour me shocked
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reading about the reactions makes this even better. Stay classy India.
@mariner4life said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
reading about the reactions makes this even better. Stay classy India.
Looking at the positives - beyond the win of course - maybe scam callers will take the day off to riot?
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Ah shit. Dammit.
https://twitter.com/TheShovel/status/1726335983690625027?s=20
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Seriously? We just beat them convincingly at ODI and now there is a T20 series starting Friday.
International cricket is fuct.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-in-india-2023-24-1389381
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I've changed my mind several times on whether India losing or winning the CWC would have been better/worse for the future of ODI cricket.
I had initially been thinking that it would be best if they won, on the grounds that they'd then be happy with the format and the BCCI/ICC would keep it.
Alternative is that they may have just locked the trophy up in the cabinet for ever had they won, so...?
Who knows, but I guess the BCCI and the Mark Nicholas's of the cricketing world will soon tell us...
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As I said earlier in the thread, I had no expectations coming into this game, so I'm not about to turn into a gloating Aussie.
However, I am pleased to make a single exception in this case:
@MajorRage said in 2023 Cricket World Cup - Other Matches:
I genuinely thought I hated Indian cricket more than anything eise in sports.
And then I watched Australia team celebrating winning.
Turns out there’s another team above India.
Four more years.
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If it means India keeps losing, I'll accept Oz winning the next 400 CWCs.
