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ICC World Cup 2023: India (201/4) comfortably defeat Australia (199) by 6 wickets

This has to be the innings of the tournament so far. Rahul's. from 2 for 3 with long tail navigated the passage against class bowling expertly.
 
Good test for Indian batsmen. Iyer is very sketchy at 4. India needs to sort this position. Otherwise a great game overall. Rohit always has a problem with incoming deliveries
 
rhony said:
Good test for Indian batsmen. Iyer is very sketchy at 4. India needs to sort this position. Otherwise a great game overall. Rohit always has a problem with incoming deliveries
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No. He is still the best option. He can do exactly what Rahul did. He has done that many times.
 
If Shreyas plays over Ishan or Surya, I will hold a dharna outside the stadium during the Netherlands game.

Either of those two will win us at least 1 game.

Shreyas will dance.
 
pillionrider said:
If Shreyas plays over Ishan or Surya, I will hold a dharna outside the stadium during the Netherlands game.

Either of those two will win us at least 1 game.

Shreyas will dance.
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Why? Look at the performance of btoh of them. SKY is a low class ODI player. T here must be 15 to 20 guys in domestic that are better than him.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Wow. Bobby has exclusive played in 2 new ball era and still doesn't average more than Kohli?
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Babar Azam played in 2 new ball era and 4 fielders outside of the ring after first powerplay to till 40th over while Kohli played a lot of his cricket in those 5 fielder era and only one new ball. what's more amusing that Kohli don't play that soft matches against C,D sides still have better strike rate and almost same average, Forget about impact and match winning abilities of Kohli ,None is near him if that filter applied. I admire Babar Azam he's down to earth very humble guy but thing is that he is Hashim Amla, Joe Root (in odi)Caliber player at best but I don't know why here people overhype him.


Bumrah won us series in Australia conditions twice and he has best strike rate and average in Australia from subcontinent among all fast bowlers But hardly I see any Indian saying here that bumrah is Greater than Wasim Akram.

Btw I count Bumrah in top 3 fast bowlers from subcontinent ever .
 
pillionrider said:
If Shreyas plays over Ishan or Surya, I will hold a dharna outside the stadium during the Netherlands game.

Either of those two will win us at least 1 game.

Shreyas will dance.
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Iyer's temperament was good. Only these days, he has become way more flashy. He is consistent and will perform soon so NNTW.
 
India won their opening ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 clash against Australia by six wickets on 8 October.

India was rattled early on in their chase of 200, when they lost three wickets in the space of 12 balls.

Virat Kohli and KL Rahul then came together to stabilize the innings. The duo added 165-runs for the fourth wicket to guide the India chase.

Kohli - who was gifted a life on 12 when Mitchell Marsh dropped a gettable catch - fell for 85 but Rahul remained right until the end, finishing unbeaten on 97, to help India to a statement win in their opening Cricket World Cup encounter.

A 69-run stand between David Warner and Steve Smith was the highlight of Australia's batting innings, however India dominated the proceedings with help from their spinners.

The tweakers shared six wickets between them. Ravindra Jadeja was the pick of India's bowlers with his 3/28. He got good support from Kuldeep Yadav (2/42), Ravichandran Ashwin (1/34) and pacer Jasprit Bumrah (2/35).

Smith top scored for Australia with 46, while David Warner (41) and Mitchell Starc (28) also found some runs.

Match 5: India won the game by six wickets against Australia.

After the 20 over mark, Kohli and Rahul continued firmly and added runs at about four an over. Kohli reached his half-century in the 26th over, whereas achieved that mark in the 28th over. While proceedings remained sedate in overs 21-30, an erratic fifth over from Pat Cummins helped India garner 11 runs.

The run flow improved for India thereafter. Scoring at better than run a ball, India had brought the required rate closer to three by the 35th over. Kohli eventually fell for a well-made 85 from 116 balls in the 38th over. This was the highest partnership by an India pair against Australia in a Cricket World Cup contest. It was also the highest partnership between two India batters in a Cricket World Cup contest for the fourth wicket.

India got off to the worst possible start to their innings. They lost three batters for a duck at the score of 2. Ishan Kishan (0) chased one away from his body against Mitchell Starc and ended up giving a catch in the slip cordon. In the very next over, Josh Hazlewood trapped Rohit Sharma lbw for a duck. The last ball of the second over produced another wicket, when Shreyas Iyer was caught driving away from his body.

Virat Kohli and KL Rahul then came together to hold the innings together. The duo took their time to get their eyes in and then upped the scoring rate after the first Powerplay. Kohli survived a scare in the eighth over, when he was dropped by Mitchell Marsh off the bowling of Hazlewood. The duo had reached a 50-run partnership in the 16th over. A hat-trick of boundaries from KL Rahul in the 18th over helped the India scoring rate.

Australia skipper Pat Cummins won a crucial toss in Chennai and elected to bat first. His opposite number, Rohit Sharma, opined that the conditions were good for bowlers and that the wicket would take turn as the game progresses.

This was proved right early on in the Australia innings, when Jasprit Bumrah got Mitchell Marsh to edge one towards the first slip. Virat Kohli held on to the chance, and India had their first breakthrough. With a boundary against Hardik Pandya in the seventh over, David Warner became the fourth Australia batter to reach the 1000 run mark in Men's Cricket World Cups. Australia gained some momentum in that over, hitting three boundaries to up the scoring rate.

Australia 43/1 at the end of first Powerplay. The Warner-Smith pairing continued accumulating runs at a decent pace. India finally had a breakthrough in the 17th over when Warner (41) tried to punch Kuldeep down the ground and ended up offering a return chance.

India spinners were able to bring down the scoring rate with their disciplined bowling.

Soon after the 25-over mark, Jadeja bowled an absolute beauty which castled Steve Smith for 46. The delivery turned enough to beat Steve Smith's outside edge and then crashed into his off stump. In the 30th over, Jadeja snared Marnus Labuschagne (27) and Alex Carey (0) to put India ahead.

Australia was further dented in the 36th and 37th overs, when Glenn Maxwell (15) and Cameron Green (8) fell to Kuldeep and Ashwin respectively. Vital contribution from Mitchell Stac (28) down the order helped Australia to 199.

Shubman Gill did not recover from illness in time for the match, with fellow youngster Ishan Kishan set to partner skipper Rohit at the top of the India batting order.

Travis Head and Marcus Stoinis missed out for Australia due to injury, with David Warner and Mitch Marsh to open the batting on a sunny day at MA Chidambaram Stadium.

Source: ICC
 
One of the best world cup victory for India in tough conditions against a high quality team.
Well played guys 🔥🔥
 
Aseem_Khan said:
Babar Azam played in 2 new ball era and 4 fielders outside of the ring after first powerplay to till 40th over while Kohli played a lot of his cricket in those 5 fielder era and only one new ball. what's more amusing that Kohli don't play that soft matches against C,D sides still have better strike rate and almost same average, Forget about impact and match winning abilities of Kohli ,None is near him if that filter applied. I admire Babar Azam he's down to earth very humble guy but thing is that he is Hashim Amla, Joe Root (in odi)Caliber player at best but I don't know why here people overhype him.


Bumrah won us series in Australia conditions twice and he has best strike rate and average in Australia from subcontinent among all fast bowlers But hardly I see any Indian saying here that bumrah is Greater than Wasim Akram.

Btw I count Bumrah in top 3 fast bowlers from subcontinent ever .
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Well said.. Bumrah has already achieved more than most of the subcontinent bowling greats
 
Some fans must have woken up to the reality how wide range the pitches are in India. Dharamsala steep bounce. Chennai variable bounce, turn. We are yet to play at Eden Gardens. Team has to keep adapting themselves to different surfacecs. It is going to be quiet a challenge for batsmen.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Some fans must have woken up to the reality how wide range the pitches are in India. Dharamsala steep bounce. Chennai variable bounce, turn. We are yet to play at Eden Gardens. Team has to keep adapting themselves to different surfacecs. It is going to be quiet a challenge for batsmen.
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You simply can't play one paced cricket in India. It's not possible. You gotta keep adapting :inti
 
Kapil Dev was having a shower when he got to know India are 9/4 in the 1983 World Cup.
KL Rahul just had a shower and came to bat when India were 2/3 in the World Cup 2023.
Match winning knocks by both the individuals after taking a shower...!!!
 
Comfortable win for IND after a rocky start. An often criticised pair came good at a critical moment.
 
Apart from the victory, one more positive thing is that top order failure came at the first match of the tournament and not in Semi-finals or Finals
 
One thing I did notice at the toss was that Cummins was not too sure of himself. Very strange. Seems he wasn’t convinced to bat first and maybe a collective decision that he didn’t fully back but went along with
 
Aseem_Khan said:
Babar Azam played in 2 new ball era and 4 fielders outside of the ring after first powerplay to till 40th over while Kohli played a lot of his cricket in those 5 fielder era and only one new ball. what's more amusing that Kohli don't play that soft matches against C,D sides still have better strike rate and almost same average, Forget about impact and match winning abilities of Kohli ,None is near him if that filter applied. I admire Babar Azam he's down to earth very humble guy but thing is that he is Hashim Amla, Joe Root (in odi)Caliber player at best but I don't know why here people overhype him.


Bumrah won us series in Australia conditions twice and he has best strike rate and average in Australia from subcontinent among all fast bowlers But hardly I see any Indian saying here that bumrah is Greater than Wasim Akram.

Btw I count Bumrah in top 3 fast bowlers from subcontinent ever .
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All formats or only tests? Who are the other 2?
 
TheSultan said:
One thing I did notice at the toss was that Cummins was not too sure of himself. Very strange. Seems he wasn’t convinced to bat first and maybe a collective decision that he didn’t fully back but went along with
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Nothing wrong to bat first here. Mistakes made. No extra specialist finger spinners. Dew or not. Finger spinners still should be able to do better on a cracked pitch. Second they probably aimed for 300 where 240 would have been enough. They infact defended 260 or something last time when India met them here. I still think he made the right call. Dhoni has defended so many small totals here in the evening with average spinners. Australia was one spinner light. They have like 5 seamers including all rounders.
 
8 October - Chennai - Australia player Josh Hazlewood post-match press conference

[Reporter:]

Do you think after that catch was dropped there was practically any chance of a comeback because probably that changed the match?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

No, I don't think so, it was quite early obviously when that catch was dropped but we still felt that new ball was doing enough, whether it was in the air or off the wicket. We knew that spin was going to be tough to play, maybe not as tough as during the day, but still enough to play it. And we certainly felt in the game for quite a while until obviously the partnership grew and grew and they sort of batted us out of it obviously. And yeah, I thought we did a reasonable job early in particular trying to defend 200.

[Reporter:]

You have seen the way the wicket behaved in both innings. What did the team think of the total on the board and where did it go wrong? Where did it go wrong in the batting department?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

Yeah, obviously the total was under par I think I can't remember exact numbers, but I think we were two for 110 or something like that. Not going really quickly but just building a base to maybe launch in the last 10 or 15 overs and you know if we get 260, 250 - 260 then it's a different ballgame and we get those early wickets and get on top so yeah, I think from two for 110 to all out 200 that's probably where the batting went wrong.

[Reporter:]

Obviously, no one means to drop a catch, but what was it like from your vantage point and did you think it was Alex's catch or Mitch's?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

No, I didn't think Carey could get there. I think it was Mitch's catch and probably just Carey got quite close in the end so it might have just put Mitch off. Yeah, he dropped a catch, it's one of those things that happens and everyone's training hard and working hard off the field to hang on to them. So, yeah, we'll continue on.

[Reporter:]

And just how was the wicket overall?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

It obviously felt like it probably spun more in the first half. Definitely the dew came in but I think early in our bowling innings it was doing enough and it was still dry. The wicket was up and down a little bit so you felt in the game as a quick in particular I think, and then I think it got a little bit better to bat on right towards the end.

I know it's a partnership but I think it just felt a little bit easier as ball was just skidding on a little bit so yeah, we'll have a look at that.

[Reporter:]

In terms of the total that Australia put up, 200, by one day standards it was quite below par. So, what did you guys tell each other during the innings break?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

I think we'll reflect on it a little bit later. I think in that moment you focus purely on the bowling side of things. The batting's done, you can't do anything about that. So, it's just about how we're going to take the 10 wickets for under 200 really. We'll digest the batting over the next few days before our next game and come back with not renewed plans but we'll touch base again and discuss it and move on.

[Reporter:]

Just in a long tournament like this, how do you read into a result like this? Can you have some takeaways from here and say, you still have eight more games, and just move on from that? Or will there be a lot of reflection on the batting, like you said?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

No, I don't think a lot of reflection. We might come up against these conditions again at other grounds throughout those eight games as you mentioned. So just be about the batting group sort of coming up with the plan and sticking to it. You know we might have to reassess and say yeah 260 is a good score rather than 300 plus to what we've seen on a few other grounds so just about assessing and you know if we can get to that score then we can try and defend it so yeah, we won't dive into it too much, I think.

[Reporter:]

Do you think the way the game went you could be a spinner short if Zampa goes for a few runs, you could be stuck in a difficult position?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

No, I don't think so. I think our quicks are our strength probably up front as we saw tonight. And then I think Glenn Maxwell is a frontline spinner in particular in India. He's bowled a lot here throughout IPL and throughout one dayers. So yeah, I consider him a front-line spinner. So we've got two spinners and three quicks as you know, a lot of the other teams do so, no I don't feel that we're short at all.

[Reporter:]

You briefly touched upon playing in different grounds. You go to Lucknow now, back-to-back games, and it's sort of fairly comparable to the black soil turnover here. So, looking at this particular game, what could you glean or take away from here to Lucknow back-to-back?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

Yeah, I think in particular batting in that first innings, that was probably as extreme as the conditions are going to get, I think, in terms of spin and playing spin throughout the middle and trying to find ways to score, keep that run rate ticking over without losing wickets. So, there's probably a good sort of examination on our batters to get that up first, probably against the best spinners in the tournament, arguably. Hopefully it gets a little bit easier from here on in and they'll come up with some new plans and go from there.

[Reporter:]

You said the dew came into it, did it come into it as you expected or more, or less and was bowling first ever really discussed as an option?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

I'm not really in those discussions in terms of the toss but yeah it might be something we need to look at, I guess. I think the tournament will go in phases of batting first and bowling first. So, we've seen sort of wins both ways so far. And yeah, it might have been something we could have done, could have bowled first and made the most of that, I guess, dryness in the turn. The dew did come in a little bit at the end and the ball got a little bit wet and soft but I felt like we created enough chances early to make a mark.

[Reporter:]

Before the match Shubman Gill was not playing, he was the best Indian batsman this year. And then obviously Indian top order went for nothing. How do you look at India's batting lineup overall?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

Whenever you see someone like [Suryakumar Yadav] on the bench, I think the batting must be pretty good. Yeah, I think you know, we obviously made those inroads early, but I think in chasing 200, they probably played it perfectly. They didn't have to hit boundaries or anything. They let a lot of balls go. They just paced themselves and paced their innings, knowing that it would probably get a little bit easier towards the end. So, yeah, they're two experienced guys and they played that way.

[Reporter:]

Before the World Cup, Australia played India and you lost that game. What was the learning from that series and what is the learning from today's match?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

Yeah, I think obviously that series we finished strongly. I think you know that it was a strange one I think you know initially you always want to bowl first and not bowl on the dew at night but on a few of those grounds I found the wicket really deteriorated and the ball deteriorated as well and it was tough to chase down a score. Two of the games went that way, I think, so, yeah, I guess every ground's a little bit different as well. Around the country, it's such a big country and the conditions change. And I think you’ve got to just land on the ground and try and sum up what you think's the best thing to do first and what's going to happen later on. It's sort of exciting that everywhere is a little bit different I think and hopefully we learn from tonight.

[Reporter:]

Did the game you played here in March influence the decision with the toss in terms of batting first?

And also, did you kind of overestimate what could have been a par score? Did you try to over extend yourself trying to go for more than 300 and end up falling short?

What was it when someone like Steve Smith who started really well got dismissed?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

Yeah, I wasn't here in the game in March, but I think they may have played a part in that we thought in that game the wicket got really tough to bat on late. And we defended the score I'm pretty sure.

So yeah, it may have come into calculations for batting first. I think, yeah, that's probably the word back from the players out in the middle, I think in terms of the batting. We can communicate that maybe a little bit better and think, yeah, this is hard work out here and 250 is a good score and we try and defend that and if you go a little bit harder things can happen pretty quickly as we saw tonight but I think that communication is pretty good in our group and it probably did come back and we just continued to lose wickets so yeah - I think communications always good in our group.

[Reporter:]

Just one last question your thoughts on the Indian bowling, specifically speaking about Kuldeep Yadav, the leg spinner. What makes him so dangerous?

[Josh Hazlewood:]

Yeah, I think he's obviously done really well over the last 12 or 18 months. He's always been a good player. We've found him tough to play against. Not often you come up against a left arm leg spinner with great variations, so it's sort of something that's hard to practice against.

And yeah, he's always been a good player to play against so I think in general the three spinners bowled really well they're all a little bit different obviously but they know the conditions really well and bowled accordingly.
 
8 October - Chennai - India player Ravindra Jadeja post-match press conference


[Reporter:]

Do you think when they were 110 for two it was the Steve Smith wicket, that particular ball, which turned the match for India? Do you say that was the best among the three? And from 110 for two, they were reduced to 119 for 5, and that tempted the match in favour of India. What was your take and do you think that your IPL experience here has played a big role in it?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

I think that was the turning moment, you know, when you get a wicket like Steve Smith from there onwards it was not easy to just come in and rotate the strike for the new batter. So, I think that I would say that wicket was the turning point. From there onwards, they were 119 – 3 and 199 all out. I think, yeah, I would say that was the turning point. And yeah, it helped me, because I knew the conditions in Chennai. I've been playing here for like 10-11 years so I know the how conditions in this ground. So, I think I enjoyed and whatever I contribute to the team I always feel happy.

[Reporter:]

Your role is slightly different in this team as a spinner, so you were playing in Chennai for the World Cup, so you were determined that you need a big team. Did you have such thoughts in your mind when you came to this match?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

No, no. I mean, if you are playing for India, every match is big. I never take anything for granted that I am set and I have a good image. Whenever I play, I try to give my 100% but sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. But whenever it happens and the team wins, it feels really good.

[Reporter:]

The whole team has good experience, but Ravindra, Ashwin and Virat are the players who have played the World Cup in 2011. Before starting this tournament, did you get any message from them that this is how you play, this tournament will help us in keeping 2011 in mind?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

No, not really. Not only from the two of them, everyone has an input on the game plan, in which venue, how to play against a particular team, how we implement every small thing, no such special message. But everyone has a different viewpoint to read the game, so everyone brings their thoughts on the ground and accordingly we decide how to play against a particular batsman or bowler - what is their weak zone, their strong area. We discuss that on the ground.

[Reporter:]

On this pitch where the ball was turning – how important is it to maintain the accuracy and line and length, because the line and length that you played was quite accurate, and the Australian batters couldn’t understand it.

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

When I started the first over, the ball was stopping after falling a little slow. I thought it was the afternoon, it was hot and the wicket was dry. I thought a stump-line would be better. From here some balls would turn, some would go straight so it won't be easy for the batsman to line up. This was my plan that I should bowl at the stumps and luckily the ball to Smith turned a little more.

So, my plan was simple I was thinking that this is a Test match bowling wicket. I shouldn't experiment too much because everything was happening in the wicket. So, I was trying to bowl it stump to stump.

[Reporter:]

Rahul and Rohit always talk about role clarity. Everyone knows their roles.

So, when all three of you are playing together, you, Ash, and Kuldeep, can you explain a little bit about their role and your role? Since you are different bowlers, how does the role differ?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

The role is nothing. We are trying to take as many wickets as possible. In such wickets, all three of them must be thinking that I should get more. Isn't it? This is what happens in the mind. And if they are thinking like this, then it's not wrong. If everyone is thinking like this, then it's good. The opposing team will get all out soon.

[Reporter:]

Today all three spinners played very well. You, Ashwin, and Kuldeep too. Do you think that going forward if you get such pitches – as this is the biggest strength of the team, to play on such spinning tracks. Would you like you get such pitches going forward too?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

That depends on the venue, we can't get such a wicket everywhere, but if we get to see such a wicket on the ground that the ball can spin better, then definitely we can go for such a combination.

[Reporter:]

At 2 runs and 3 wickets, what was it like in the dressing room? Was there still a sense of calmness? Or was there a little bit of nerves?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

Yeah, like, obviously, when you’re three wickets down in just a couple of overs, you obviously get panicked a little bit. But we know that Virat and Rahul, they've been doing it for the team for so many years. So, I think nobody was too hyper or panicked at that time. But yeah, luckily, they played brilliantly, they know the conditions well and they took the game forward till the last so I think that was amazing to see.

[Reporter:]

You said it very simply that you kept a line on the stump and didn't try to experiment much, still you have a lot of subtle variations, like overspin and all. You have played Steve Smith's wickets. Do you feel that as the batsman is trying so you should try to turn the ball more?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

No, no, I will not tell you. You will print it in English and they will understand. No, I won't tell you this.

[Reporter:]

In today's match, we saw two world records. Number one record is - in ODI history, we have never lost - out of the top four batsmen, 3 batsmen for a duck. This happened for the first time, so what was running in your head? And also, more than 150 partnership against Australia, that too for the first time. So, when these kinds of big records are happening, what happens when you guys are in there?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

We didn't know how many were out for the first time. But the positive thing to take from this is that – partnership – when our team was under pressure, how our batsmen handle pressure, they can take it positively. In the World Cup such matches will come where there will be crucial matches, knockouts or any such do or die situation, so how will our batsmen handle the pressure? The first record you told me of, even I didn't know it happened.

[Reporter:]

India is the favourite. Your first win gives you confidence. But when your first win is against Australia, does it double the confidence?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

It feels very good when you defeat big teams, and your confidence definitely goes up.

Beating Australia and other strong teams in the World Cup would be great. I won't say it will be easy in front of the other teams because every team is good. But if you win in front of the big teams, you have a different level of confidence. In the next stage, as a team if out of 11 even 7-8 players have high confidence we can go in a positive direction

[Reporter:]

You are three spinners, if you leave Kuldeep, so you and Ashwin are seniors, you've played for a long time. So how did you give confidence to Kuldeep?

[Ravindra Jadeja:]

No, he doesn't need confidence. He is doing good in the series; in Asia Cup he has taken 5 wickets and he was the highest wicket taker. He is in good rhythm and good touch so hopefully he will keep on doing this. As a spinner we always discuss where there is spin or not, can you bowl at good speed – we keep passing the information to each other. That gives us an idea that in this wicket at what speed and line and length we can bowl.
 
kron said:
Another overrated stat padded kohli. Can never perform in Important games against full strength attacks haha. Check his ko record post 2011 too
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Kid stop embarrassing yourself. Even a left handed, one footed Kohli is better than softie Azam
 
kron said:
Yes I dont get this. Kohli of all people doesn't care at all. So silly. There is really no need for that. Read the article that discusses steyn. He would never check on a player even if he hurts an opposition batsman as he believes this would affect his ability to bowl with full intensity.
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Yes bouncer used to be a proper intimidation tactic . Steyn is right to do that , only one time he came across as a slight douche but you can’t get to the top being mr paly pally
 
kron said:
Really? Virat struggles vs outside off since he started playing. Struggles under pressure. Never delivers under pressure post 2011

Kl Rahul still yet to prove himself in pressure games vs full strength attacks

Iyer can't play bounce

Rohit again perennial failure in ko stages and against left arm pace.

Kishan is a newbie

Gill I agree is good but he too is weak vs spin.

It's nothing special really.
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I think you're a 15 year old kid who started watching cricket since Babar's debut.. Your comments towards Kohli and other Indian batsman indicates that you are a immature and hateful poster who is illogical in his logic. Please be gentle towards that legend who have smashed your team no. Of times more than your age.
Good luck kid
 
Australians had a very poor T20 WC last year and it looks like the ODI WC is not going to be any better. I think they need to inject plenty of Youth in the team after this WC.

Restrict the likes of Cummins, Starc, Hazelwood to test matches but inject youth in T20 and ODI games.
 
Savak said:
Australians had a very poor T20 WC last year and it looks like the ODI WC is not going to be any better. I think they need to inject plenty of Youth in the team after this WC.

Restrict the likes of Cummins, Starc, Hazelwood to test matches but inject youth in T20 and ODI games.
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I don't think this is a sign of how their world cup campaign goes. Sure there are some aging players like Warner, Smith. Their problem is composition. Smith is past it. He is not the same smith. Even at Peak he was not exactly an elite ODI player. Labu is Smith version 2.0. So middle order enforcing is missing. From the bowling point tHey need someone similar to Agar. They have too many seamers. Main + Back up. Total of 5. Instead they might need one spinning all rounder. Preferably left arm.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Nothing wrong to bat first here. Mistakes made. No extra specialist finger spinners. Dew or not. Finger spinners still should be able to do better on a cracked pitch. Second they probably aimed for 300 where 240 would have been enough. They infact defended 260 or something last time when India met them here. I still think he made the right call. Dhoni has defended so many small totals here in the evening with average spinners. Australia was one spinner light. They have like 5 seamers including all rounders.
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Not saying whether it was right or wrong, I just found his uncertainty at the toss very strange.

This probably reflected in their confused performance
 
TheSultan said:
Not saying whether it was right or wrong, I just found his uncertainty at the toss very strange.

This probably reflected in their confused performance
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I would have wanted INdia to bat first. It is a nervous exercise chasing in chennai dew or not. You can lose wickets in clumps here out of nowhere. If you have batting depth i say it wouldn't be a problem chasing. Indian team with long tail always have to walk a tight line chasing these tricky totals.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Bangalore boys have played some absolute gem knocks in this World Cup.

First , Rachin Ravindra .

Now KL Rahul.

Bah Gawd I'm so proud that my fellow Bangaloreans are doing so well
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Another Rahul has to think instead of last year over thinking tactics like replacing kuldeep on a spinning pitch
 
Unbiased-Fan said:
I think you're a 15 year old kid who started watching cricket since Babar's debut.. Your comments towards Kohli and other Indian batsman indicates that you are a immature and hateful poster who is illogical in his logic. Please be gentle towards that legend who have smashed your team no. Of times more than your age.
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illogical ? he has failed in ko stages since 2011. has he not? he delivered today but its not the KO stage. to be a true great he needs to perform in the Ko stage as well. if he helps india reach the finals by performing in the ko then sure go ahead and extol him with all the praise you want.
 
Aaron Finch: Australia must shift their mindset against spin

In the end, it came down to one thing - India’s spinners outbowled Australia’s.

It was a fantastic game, much lower scoring than we expected, and the conditions played a big part.

I spoke to Rahul Dravid before the game and he didn’t expect there to be any dew. He was really surprised when it came down and said that India would have batted first as well.

You can’t allow Jadeja, Kuldeep and Ashwin to bowl how they want to bowl on a surface like that. They’re so accurate and so highly skilled - Jadeja has done it to Australia so many times now.

Part of it comes down to how India bowled spin, but we also need to look at the way that Australia batted. There was a clear plan among the group to be proactive, to try to limit dot balls and rotate strike against what they knew would be a world-class group of spinners.

There was a bit of a lack of aggression from the Australian batters. I think they’ll be disappointed by the intent they showed and the fact that they weren’t able put any pressure back on India.

It needs a mindset shift, to look to be on the front foot a little more and take some calculated risks.

That being said, everything felt possible when India were two for three. The atmosphere in the ground was amazing, when the ball went in the air with Virat on 12, it went dead silent and there was a kind of collective groan that I’ve never heard before.

When it went down, the fans went nuts and that was the turning point for sure. Australia created enough opportunities and if they’d got Virat, that would have put a totally different complexion on the game.

When Virat gets in, he gets the crowd onside and the momentum starts to swing his way, he feels unstoppable. The way he managed that run chase was unbelievable and KL Rahul played a masterful knock. If Australia had got up to 240, India wouldn’t have been able to soak up pressure for 15 overs. Chasing 200, the run rate was never going to get out of hand. More chances would have come if India had to pull the trigger a bit earlier.

Adam Zampa clearly didn’t bowl as well as he has in the past. He’s had a neck injury and some shoulder issues, so understandably is a little bit below his best.

The ball got very wet and the way that KL Rahul hit him off his length in the first over was devastating. He played a beautiful late cut to a very good ball and that forced Zamps to be a little bit fuller, to strive for a little more pace and ultimately overpitch.

That was down to great batting rather than anything Zamps could have done differently, they just had the better of him today.

The mood around Australia is still optimistic. With a nine-game group stage, you can afford a little slip-up here and there and it’s not fatal. In the T20 World Cup, we found that losing one game is enough and the margins are so fine. Here you can cope with a couple of losses, you just don’t want them to be too big for net run rate.

All in all, India have got such a well-rounded squad, three brilliant spinners and three brilliant quicks, and Hardik Pandya being back bowling is huge for the balance of their side. They will be so hard to beat in these conditions.

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