Certified Legendary Thread 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Game 48 The Final India v Australia 19/11 1900hrs @ Narendra Modi Stadium

[sherb]

Somebody mentioned he had the shits about Venkat being made captain. Boycott was seething about Mike Denness captaining England here in 74-75 so it was a time for opening batsmen to be cranky about captaincy appointments.

Boycott didn't end up touring here in 74-75, neither did John Snow.

So that's their (probably) best batsman and best bowler at the time each sitting at home while the Poms were getting flogged.

 

[Santana]

Hopefully these two are there at the end

 

[Magma]

you know it's bad if they arent even appealing for anything and everything

 

[damicky]

And South Africa had won 15 of their previous 18 games against Australia - doesn't mean much if you can't win the ones that really count.

The more matches you win, the closer you get to a loss

 

[Kapow!!!]

Law of averages theory strikes again. Almost impossible for an athlete or team to go unbeaten for a whole tournament/season.

We protected 2007 as the most dominant cup win of all time

 

[Speck]

Its amazing watching India and their fans just completely and utterly give up. Soft head *s.

Haven't even tried anything different to win, they're happy to just witness the greatness like the rest of us

This is so apparent - even with 100 to win India haven't really tried. If this was reversed you would have seen part timers, field up, different tactics. India have given up way too early.

 

[Scorpus]

Difference in the match has been our bowlers' ability to prevent any Indian batsman from going big after a start, whereas India were unable to stop Head's conversion and that (likely) cost them the match

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Lost in all this will be the selectors and I bagged them for this, playing two rocks at 4 and 5 has worked. It allows your 3 sloggers to tee off knowing you have the stability behind

It would probably be a liability if playing on the 350+ pitches that we saw for a lot of the tournament. The two finals matches being low scoring with 210 and 240, and those two at 4 and 5 become a strength being the guys to see it through

 

[RandB]

Head is an Australian legend forever after this.

Head's head should be on one of our coins.

 

[Southerntakeover]

Can you imagine how large a statue they'd be building of Kohli if he was half as clutch as Trav?

 

[largebus]

Live scenes in Pakistan:

 

[imagifED]

Do we have bragging rights over India since 18/19?
World Cup and Test Championship vs 2 away Border Gavaskar wins.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Can't forget Labs here either, been rock solid at the other end.

Said it an hour ago, Lab was the most important wicket. Allows hitters to bat around him

 

[Satan]

Peaking at the right time

 

[Bedi]

Labs!!

 

[010203]

A half century for Marnus. Test match style strike rate but it won't matter.

 

[k31th]

Fantastic way to go to your half century Marnus brilliant innings

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Why Zampa clapping like that

 

[tigland]

Labs

 

[ptrg]

Can't forget Labs here either, been rock solid at the other end.

100%. Cops so much s**t on here and in the media, but absolute wall. Fk off Dravid, we have the new and improved wall

 

[Southerntakeover]

As good as Head has been, the team bowling/fielding performance set this up.
incredible given what India have been doing this entire tournament, right up to this final..

He was also the fielding performance that set it up. Sharma catch is the game.

 

[Stax on the mill]

More luck for Marnus.

Brave call from Kettleborough not to give that out.

You sticking this out right to the end, including the presentation, Plugger?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

It would probably be a liability if playing on the 350+ pitches that we saw for a lot of the tournament. The two finals matches being low scoring with 210 and 240, and those two at 4 and 5 become a strength being the guys to see it through

100%, ideally find someone that can do both but they are so rare

 

[sherb]

Sunny referenced this when Maxi hit his 100 off 40, he said I took 170 balls to make 36, he's made 100 in 40.

I looked at the scorecard 010203 posted, it was 36* off 174 balls and the team made 3-132 off 60 overs (as one-dayers were back then).

 

[Kapow!!!]

Nice 50 Marnus. Very important anchoring knock, an all time great partnership