Australia has become the cricket world champion by beating the undefeated team of the tournament and host of ICC World Cup 2023, India in Ahmedabad by 6 wickets. Australia has maintained their record of winning the ICC trophy by wining the title the 7th time. The winning team experienced a comfortable win despite losing 3 wickets early in the match in chasing the runs at Narendra Modi Stadium packed with Indian fans on the Sunday evening.
A total of 137 runs was scored by Travis Head in the middle order from 120 balls and 58 runs were scored by Marnus Labuschagne from 110 balls as Australia cruised home. The trophy was lifted by Pat Cummins, the captain and his team that were not voted the favourites for winning the tournament more than 6 weeks ago.
India and Australia started their campaigns on 8th October in Chennai against each other when KL Rahul together with Virat Kohli to steer the chase of his team of a moderate to tal and get the first win of the tournament. India was in a situation similar to this in Ahmedabad where Rahul (66) and Kohli (54) came together once again to rescue of the Indian team. However, the batting of India collapsed and they put together a target of 241 in 50 overs in the finals.
The bowlers of Australia, led by the excellent display of fast bowling with 3 wickets down on 55 runs in 10 overs kept the Indian batsmen at bay with regular dismissals. Captain Cummins ended with figures 2 wickets on 34 in 10 overs with Josh Hazlewood as fellow batsman who had 2/60 in 10 overs.
Rohit Sharma did not blame the pitch for the batting display from his side but he did say that ‘the pitch improved under the lights’. He said, ‘Australia stitched up a good partnership to win the game and took the game away from us. Australia won the title last in 2015 at home. The Kangaroo’s won the title seventh time that makes delays another 5 years for rest of the countries to win the world cup. England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have won the title once, each. West Indies and India have won the ICC World Cup trophies in the One Day format two times.
